The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

Lord Lytton's Varney in " Lucretia."

Some curious particulars arc given in .A'otes and
Queries concerning the last years of the notorious
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the " Janus Weather-
cock" of the London Magazine to which Hazlitt and
Lamb contributed. It is pretty generally known that
this man—whose art criticisms in the periodical in
question, flippant as they were, attracted attention
by the dash, animation, and picturesqueness of their
style—was transported for having forged the signa-
ture of his wife's trustee, and that he lay under
heavy suspicion of having poisoned more than one
person whose lives he bad insured. His subsequent
career in Van Diemen's Land, where he arrived in
1836, is not so well known. He became, about the
year 1842, an artist in Hobart Town, where, it is
said, he twice attempted to poison people to whom
he had taken a distaste. As a consequence, he was
" dreaded, disliked, and shunned by everybody."
A gentleman who knew him well describes him as a
man with a massive head, indicating the possession
of a large amount of brain ; a square, solid jaw,
deeply-set eyes, and " a snake-like expression which
was at once repulsive and fascinating. He rarely
looked you in the face. His conversation and man-
ners were winning in the extreme ; he was never
intemperate, but nevertheless of grossly sensual
habit, and an opium eater." He was " constantly
on the very confines of murder," and on one occa-
sion acted towards a fellow-convict, against whom
he bore a grudge, with hideous malignity. The con-
vict was brought in a dying state into the Hobart
Town Hospital, where Wainewright was at that time
au inmate. The latter "at a glance detected the
fatal premonitory indications, aud, gliding to his
bedside with cat-like steps, he hissed into the dying
man's ear—' You are a dead man. In four-and-
twenty hours your soul will be in hell, and my arm
will be buried up to that (touching his elbow) in
your body, dissecting it.' " This is equal to some
of the horrible fancies of Edgar Allan Poe. While
in the hospital, Wainewright sent a petition to the
governor of the colony, Sir Eardley Wilmot, for a
ticket-of-leave, which was refused. In this docu-
ment—a strange piece of egotism and rambling talk
—he speaks of his writings, and begs his Excellency
to " grant him the power to shelter his eyes from
Vice in her most revolting and sordid phase, and
his ears from a jargon of filth and blasphemy that
would outrage the cynicism (sic) of Parny himself."
To his other vices it is clear that Wainewright added
hypocrisy. He died about the year 1852.

FRENCII-ENGLISH —An amusing illustration of
the sort of blunders which Frenchmen make in
writing or speaking English, is afforded by the Interna-
tional, a journal which, being published in London as well
as in Paris, ought to be exempt from such peculiarities.
Among the spectacles de Londres, it announces this week
" My Husband Ghost" at the Haymarket, " Nursery Chick-
weed" at the Lyceum, "A sheep in Woslf's Clothing" at
the Adelphi, and weeharts and Wives" at Sadler's Wells.
After this, the "divine Williams" ought no longer to sur-
prise us.

A HEART OF STONE NOT TO BE CHISELLED.—The
following tragi-comic incident is related by a Paris
paper. In the street of Cherche-Midi there exists a little
eating-house, known under the name of "Cabaret de la
Mere Rigault," and much frequented by engravers and
sculptors. It is kept by an amiable young widow, who
received, a few days ago, from one of her customers, a
sculptor, named Auguste R., the following curious letter :
" Divine Pebble,—Were you not harder than porphyry
or agate, the chisel of my love, guided by the mallet of my
fidelity, would have made some impression upon you. I,
who have given every form to the roughest materials, had
hoped that with the compass of reason, the saw of con-
stancy, the fine file of friendship, and the polish of my
words I should have made of you one of the prettiest
statues in the world. But, alas 1 you are but an insensible
stone ; and yet you fire my soul, yourself remaining cold as
marble. Ilave pity on me. Ino longer know what I say
or do. When I have a dragon to sculpture it is Cupid that
rises under my chisel. Dear column of my hopes, pedestal
of my happiness, cornice of my jay, if you make me
happy I will raise to you statues and pyramids. To-
morrow I will call for your answer.—AUGUSTE." The
widow laughed heartily at what she took for a witty joke,
and showed the letter to all her customers. Yesterday
Auguste R. entered the establishment and was immediately
a mark for a shower of compliments on the originality of his
letter. Fixing a strange gaze on his friends, he exclaimed,
" You make a jest of my sufferings, of my love !" And,
becoming suddenly furious, he abused the widow for her
perfidy and threatened to kill her. The police had to be
119nt Lot. The poor tiquipbx prined WJ e put vt WO Wad

LATEST INTELLIGISUE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DARMSTADT, Oct. 15.

It is stated that the Convention between the Go-
vernment of Ilesse-Darmstadt and the Archbishop
of Mentz has been annulled. During several years
this convention has given rise to conticual attacks
upon the Government.

TEE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 14.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian,
with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings
66 passengers, $697,163 in specie, and 1,163
packages of cargo, chiefly consisting of bark, rubber,
cocoa, and cochineal.
The Tasmanian left St. Thomas on the Ist of Octo-
ber, and experienced heavy rains during six days.

A hurricane visited the West India islands on the
29th of September. The West India and Pacific
Navigation Company's wharf at St. Thomas was
cut through by a coal ship and demolished. Several
ships went ashore. The St. Thomas dock escaped
injury.

Her Majesty's ship Buzzard left for England on
the 28th.

Yellow fever and smallpox still lingered at St.
Thomas. Two cases of yellow fever occurred on
board the Tasmanian, both proving fatal.
Nothing had been done at Jamaica towards the
inauguration of the new Government. The Mili-
tary Commission has arrived out. Fine weather
prevailed, but business was dull. The coffee crop
was expected to be scarce. Exchange, 90 days, 2
per cent.

At Grenada the cocoa-picking had commenced,
and the prospects were cheering. The corn crop
was abundant, and trade was dull

Guadeloupe continued healthy-.

At Barbadoes the weather was fine, and planta-
tion prospects were encouraging, but dysentery and
fever prevailed.
At Demerara the weather was fine, but trade was
dull. Tonnage was abundant and freights were de-
clining. Sugar, 15d. to 18d.

The other islands were healthy.
Senor Perez had been proclaimed President of
Chili. The country still demanded the vigorous
prosecution of the war against Spain. Powerful
batteries, which will be defended with 150 cannon,
were being erected at Valparaiso.
The freight engagements at Valparaiso were ex-
tensive. Exchange on London, 45d. to 45id. ; on
Paris, 70c. to 75c. Bar silver, per mare, $lO 50c.
In Peru business continued active, and the cot-
ton growing was increasing.

Bo c; RSE, Oct. 13.—Three o'clock.—The market
became decidedly heavy, and remained so till the
close, which was as follows :

Bank Shares
Italian Loan 55 15
Do. end month 55 10
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt —
Deferred
'AYB.
For Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50
Southern 576 25
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian . —
377
Austrian
Lombard 412 50
`North of Spain ...
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

4 per Cents 97

ro: end month

3 per Cents.
Do. end month 6B 80

Credit Mobilier 632 50
Do. end month 632 50

Credit Foncier

Do. end month 1360

SIIEIL'S TRAGEDY, " EVADNE ; OR, THE STATUE,"
is in preparation at Sadler's Well's, for Miss Marriott, who
part, one of the few original crea-
is to play the principal
tions of Miss O'Neil, who had rare play. fellows with her
in the same piece—Young,Macready, and Charles Kemble.
REFREsIIING READING.—A literary announcement
from Leipzig runs thus : —" Our readers will be obliged to
us for drawing their attention to some Sanscrit works
which will shortly appear. We have not read the books
ourselves, but, if their contents are as interesting as their
titles, their perusal must bo the acme of delight. The
titles are : S wapantschakschavirna hamantrastotra,'
Trigunatinikakalikastotra," Upangalalitavratodyapana,'
Sankarchtatschaturthivratodyapana,' and Anautatscha-
turdarivratakatha.' "

THE ROMAN LEGION.—The Moniteur of yesterday
says :—" Certain journals have announced that the Roman
Legion formed at Antibes by the efforts of the French Go-
vernment, and placed by it at the disposition of the Pope,
bore the French tricolour cockade. This information is
quite incorrect. The new legion, like all the other corps
of the Pontifical army, displayed the cockade and the flag
of the Holy Father."
DEATH OF THE DEAN OF NORWICH.—We regret
to announce the death of the Hon. and Very Rev.
George Pellew, Dean of Norwich, of Great Chart Rectory,
lielet„ on Saturday, after some months of failing health.
The deceased Dean was the third son of Admiral Sir
Edward Pellew, afterwards Viscount Exmouth, and was
born at Torquay, Cornwall, in 1793. Educated at Eton
and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (8.D., 1815 ; M.A.
1818; D.D., 1828), he received holy orders in 1817, and in
1823 became a Canon of Canterbury, where he resided
until his appointment to the Deanery of Norwich in 1829.
He was an accomplished scholar, and published, among
other works, " Life of Lord Sidmouth" and several volumes
of sermons. In 1820 he married the Hon. Frances Adding-
ton, who survives him. The Dean leaves one son, Mr. H.
E. Fellow, well known as an active member in all Church
movements) and three daughters—Viscountess Sidmouth,
Mrs.pgle, and Mrs. Arkwright.
THE GUARDS' EIGHT-OAR RACE ON THE THAMES.
—On Friday afternoon this exciting match for a
silver cup, valued at £5O, given by Capt. Williams, of the
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) for competition between crews
picked from members of that regiment and the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards, new quartered at Windsor, took place on the
Thames, over a course about a mile and a quarter in length,
between tho pleasant village of Bray and Maidenhead-
bridge. The Royal Horse Guards' boat was steered by
Capt. Whitmore, Capt. Harford acting as coxswain to the
Scots Fusiliers' crew. The starter was Capt. Adair, late
of the Coldstream Guards, Mr. Ford acting as judge. There
was a large number of spectators on the river side. The
company included the Marquis of Worcester, the Hon. C.
R. Carrington, Capt. Fuller, Capt. Winkfield, Col. Ewart,
Lieut. Wombwell, Ridingmaster Boswell, Mrs. Boswell,&c.;
while about half the members of each regiment were on the
ground. An excellent start was made by Capt. Adair a few
minutes after 4 o'clock, the Fusiliers at first getting the
lead. During the rowing the crews kept nearly together
till near the railway bridge, where the Fusiliers made a
spurt, but were finally distanced by the Royal Horse Guards
crew, who won by about half a boat's length on reaching
the winnning post near Maidenhead-bridge. The cup, a
very splendid one, was manufactured by Messrs. Thomas,
of Bond-street. Both regiments are indebted to Captain
Williams for the pleasant excitement afforded by the match,
and which was agreeably terminated by a dinner given in
the evening at the Spital Barracks by the non-commissioned
officers of the Scots Fusiliers to their brethren of the Royal
Horse Guards.— Windsor and Eton News.

LEECH, DOYLE, AND TENNIEL.—Leech, Doyle, and
Tenniel are our last triad of workmen in black and white.
The first was supreme in observation and correct rapidity.
The second combines originality with high refinement,
and wonderful power of seizing and exaggerating the lead-
ing feature of a face. This probably is great part of the
reason why his works always make one laugh so much.
Ile is the inventor,we rather think, of mediaeval burlesque
caricature (lately revived by others with the greatest spirit
in the " Ballad of Brauninghindis" in Punch.) His " Con-
tinental Tour of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" showed
great power over national expressions of face ; and his
Derby and Brighton crowds seem to us a good deal better
than Mr. Frith's, at a much cheaper rate. Mr. Tenniel
is in many respects the most accomplished character
draughtsman who is left to us. Like John Lewis, he
seems to have learned very much from careful study of
animals, at some early period of his career in the way of
subtle expression ; and as Puna is in the hands of all
adults and " Alice's Adventures" are the delight of all
children (and parents), the illustrator of both those works
needs little comment from us. It is hard to say how great
a loss we have sustained by Leech's early death. Had he
been honoured as well as paid—had he been recognised by
the Academy as the head of our modern school of domestic
character drawing in black and white, he would not have
passed away, as he seems to have done, unaware of his great
powers and their possible influence for good. We may be
said to have lost in him the man of all the world who pro-
duced the greatest amount of beauty with the least amount
of trouble ; who showed the greatest rapidity and the
greatest subtlety ; who could create without seeming to
know it; who could draw a woman in her beauty, a man
in his strength, a horse in his stride ; who could treat
degrading subjects without being degraded, and often lift
things out of vulgarity or imbecility by humour, or tender-
ness, or pathos, or righteous indignation, or even sublimity
—or by inextinguishable laughter; whose range of feeling
was never ascertained or spanned, who drew and delighted
old, young, and middle-aged, and never gave a hint of
evil pleasure ; and yet who seems to have had no notion
but that it was good for him to illustrate the adventures of
Mr. Soapey Sponge.--Contemporary ,Review, October uura-
ber.

C~cr~ Dian zymytir

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Friday.

The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess
Louise, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely.

Baron von Ucchtritz had an audience of her
Majesty and presented letters from Duke Bernhard
and-Duke George of Saxe-Meiningen. He was in•
troduced by Sir Stafford Northcote.

Prince Christian and Prince Arthur went oat

shooting.
The Baron von Uechtritz had the honour of din.
ing with the Queen and Royal Family yesterday

evellitig.

Saturday.

The Queen went out in the morning, accore"
panied by Princess Beatrice, and drove in the after-
noon, accompanied by Princess Christian.
Princess Louise rode with Prince Arthur, attended
by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, and visited the Duchess
of Aumale at Abergeldie.
The gillies' ball to the servants and tenants of the
Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Birkhall estates, which
was to have been given on the day of the arrival °I
Prince and Princess Christian, took place yesterday'.
Dancing commenced at half-past 5, at 8 supper
was served, after which the dancing was resumed/
and continued till near 12.

Her Majesty and the Royal family were present'

The Ilrince of Wales, attended by Major Grey,
went to Dover on Saturday morning to receive the
Queen of Denmark on her arrival in England.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Thyra
and the Prince Waldemar, and attended by Ole
Countess of Reventlow, M. de Custenschiold,
M. Jantzen, crossed the Channel from Calais on
board Her Majesty's ship Vivid, and arrived o.t
Dover at a quarter before three o'clock.
Shortly after her Majesty's arrival the Royal
party proceeded by special train to London, and
was met by her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke and
General Knollys, at the Charing-cross Station.
The Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess
of Wales, and Princess Thyra, with the Ladies and
Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service at
the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning