The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

T E LON 001 S. _MON IAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1.860

of Saturday respecting this affair. It actually goes
so fare as to declare that Austria has ordered arma-
ments without any provocation having been received
from. Prussia ; and that these are of such a kind that
-there is no reserve left the Berlin Government but
to acm also in self-defence. It is now rendered
necessary for Prussia to find guarantees, and, there-
fore, to effect this desideratum a reform must take
place in the Federal Constitution. The assurance
of some people is really annoying, and we should,
indeed, be greatly puzzled to state what claim
Prussia has in those minor States that they should
alter their laws and change their Constitutions to
suit her plans and further her ambitious projects.

The Government Reform Bill has at length
found some decided partisans. Stroud has long
borne the reputation of a Liberal borough, and its
citizens appear to be resolved to maintain its cha-
racter. It prides itself on returning a Liberal mem-
ber, although at the meeting last Thursday the con-
duct of their representative was very severely
criticised. Mr. HORSM.kN'S Parliamentary career
has been, it must be confessed, not altogether satis-
factory. Possessed of striking talents, a brilliant
and vigorous speaker, he is uncertain and incon-
sistent. lie abus,-.3s the Liberal party, and his
trenchant satire is often doubly severe, be-
cause it is based on truth, as was the case
in his recent speech on Mr. CLAY'S educational
frauchise, but he seems to find it much easier and
pleasanter to destroy than to construct. lie satirises
the Liberal party—well and good—but then he lays
himself open to satire and reproach in his turn.
The Stroud electors complain bitterly that he has
failed to represent their principles, and a very
stringent resolution was carried, with only two dis-
sentients, declaring that the Right lion. EDWARD
Ho RMAN no longer possessed their confidence.
What will come of this movement remains to be
seen ; but there are a good many more professing
Liberals who have failed to represent their con-
stituencies, or to show any real heartiness
in the cause of Reform. Granted that
the Cabinet are not over zealons on the matter,

it would require very little fervour on their part to
come up to the temperature of the great body of
their supporters. They have done little enough, it
is true ; but in doing that little, they have not
been met half way. The whole question is in an
unsatisfactory condition, and at the root of the
indifference in Parliament lies the discordance be-
tween the reforming constituencies and their repre-
sentatives. Men who can speak as well as Mr.
HORSMAN does are pretty sure to carry their audi-
ence with them for the time, though the theories of
the hustings affects very little the practice of St.
Stephens.

" Colours seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day."

Sings the poet, and so the discomfited constituents
of a professing Reformer very often find it when
they have to exchange listening to the eloquent
periods of the candidate to reading the speeches of
the M.P., or looking for his name in the ayes when
all the while it is in the noes ! We hope Mr.

HORSMAN and a good many other Liberal members
will profit by the lesson given at the Stroud meet-
ing, while the very just and temperate tone adopted
by the speakers throughout added double weight to
their observations on the whole question of Reform
Bills and Reform.

commencement of the season, has just died after a
very short illness. Your readers will probably re-
collect my account of the sensation she produced
at the ball of the Minister of Marine by her personi-
fication of America in the splendid procession of
the Nations. Another death announced is that of
M. Victor Parizot, aged 50, the well-known com-
poser of various songs and ballads. M. Perizot
was a native of Bordeaux, and his remains will be
interred in that city.

The preparatory evidence respecting Philippe, the
alleged murderer of a lady in the Rue de la Ville
l'Eveque which created so much consternation in
Paris a few months ago, is concluded, and he will
be tried at the Paris Assizes in May. The evidence
in this one case is thought to be sufficient for
Philippe's conviction, but he is supposed to have
been guilty of no less than seventeen murders, some
evidence respecting which was disclosed at the pre-
sent inquiry. He has twice attempted suicide while
in prison. Philippe is described as being of ordi-
nary stature, but of very ferocious aspect, and blood
sometimes issues from his hollow eyes.
A woman named Jeanne Marie Farza has been
found guilty by the Court of Assize of Tarn-et-
Garonne of the murder of her father-in-law, M.
Martin, an old man of 80. It was proved that she
had imbibed an extraordinary aversion to the de-
ceased, the motive for which was not known, and
that on the night of the 20th January last she mur-
dered him in his bed by strangling him with a wire
which she drew so tightly round his throat as to
force blood from his eyes. She attempted to destroy
the wire, and placed a chopper near his bed stained
with blood. She also broke open a drawer to give
the idea that robbery was the object of the murder.
She then went out of the house by a side door, with
the view of sustaining an alibi by her absence, and
on her return herself raised the cry of alarm. The
jury found her guilty " with extenuating circum-
stances," and she was condemned to hard labour for
20 years.

The dissection of the body of a young officer who
died at the military hospital at Tournay has disclosed
a very extraordinary anatomical construction, some
of the vital organs not being in their usual place.
The heart was on the right side, instead of the left,
and the liver, spleen, and other organs also dis-
placed. The deceased had always been in good
health, and had never spoken of his peculiar con-
formation. Probably he was unaware of it himself.
It had nothing to do with the cause of death, which
was typhus fever. These facts are confirmed by the
statements of several surgeons of the town, whose
attention was called to the phenomena presented at
the dissection.

A letter from Naples states that for a few days
there has been no water in the wells and cisterns of
the city. Geologists attribute the circumstance to
the displacement of matter, thus causing a vacancy,
which scientific men say " Nature abhors," and it is
considered to presage an approaching eruption of
Mount Vesuvius.
M. Legour6 has read his drama, the "Deux
Reines," at the Sorbonne, before about 1,500
persons. For more than two years there has been a
veto against its representation at any theatre by the
Censorship, and therefore this new mode of obtain-
ing publicity is considered as a very singular circum-
stance, particularly as it is said that M. Legour6
intends to give another reading of his drama in the
Rue Scribe, the profits of which are to be devoted
to elementary instruction.
The exhibition of paintings and sculpture
by French artists will take place this
month. It is said that the collection of
historical paintings will be but small, and that
landscapes will form the chief feature. Among the
paintings are " A Morning View on the Banks of
the Oise," by M. Daubigny ;" " An Evening in the
East," by M. Fromentin ;" " A Curious Antique
'Dance," by M. Corot ;" two landscapes by M.
Busson, two paintings by M. Flahault. M. Bou-
langer has sent a remarkable picture, " Catherine
the First discussing with Mehemet-Baltadji, the
Treaty of the Pruth, 1711. M. Protais, " A
Bivouac of Soldiers, and a Dying Soldier ;" M.
Tabar, " The Battle of Solferino ;" Moreau sends
two pictures—" The Horses of Diomede," and " A
Young Girl finding the_ head and the lyre of
Orpheus."
Our Easter Sunday in Paris has been favoured
by charming weather, as warm as it is sometimes
in summer, genial and inspiring. All Paris has
been in the streets or gardens or " out of town."
The Moniteur has a long article upon the forth-
coming Exhibition at Paris. It states that the
universal Exhibition in Loudon in 1851 was con-
vened chiefly with the view to material progress.
The projected Exhibition of 1867 will be really uni-
versal, because it will not only be attended by the
representatives of all countries, but because its pro-
gramme, without emerging from the domain of
wisdom, will comprise in some sort the universality
of labour and human interests.
M. Delannay, of the Institute, is about to develope
a very interesting scientific discovery. A division
into 24 parts has been made of the time required for
the notation of the earth round its axis, and we have
hitherto obtained the hour which has been considered
unchangeable. But the hour was shorter formerly
than it is now, and it will gradually become shorter
in ages to come. This new scientific law is about
to be fully explained by M. Delannay.
The Sun has copied from the Times an article
about the bad taste and confusion in the names of
London streets. Iu Paris there has long been the
same subject of complaint. In some cases about a
dozen streets had the same name, but they are
changing the names in all directions, only the
remedy, until the names shall be better known,
seems worse than the disease. It has been
facetiously said thAt a man may go out to an even-
ing party, and when he returns he is compelled to
sleep out of doors, as he cannot find his street, the
name having been changed during the interval.
The names of residence undergo the same mutation.
The prison for debtors in the Rue de Clichy is now
called Clichy House.
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new

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ream

(From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have nearly finished a pro
fessional tour round the world. They started eastward
from England more than two years ago, and have since
then acted on opposite sides of the globe. Their perform-
ances have been attended with marked success throughout
the whole tour. In Australia, in California, in the West
Indies, and in our Atlantic States it has been everywhere
the same ; they have in all cases added to their fame and
to their fortune. This is a tribute to superior talents which
carries its lessons for both actors and managers. When
the Keans were in this city last fall they fulfilled an en-
gagement at the Academy of Music, and that spacious
house, which requires such a vast number of people to fill
it, and in which the finished actor goes through his part at
such great disadvantage, was thronged every night by
delighted audiences. No one who then saw " Henry
VIII.," " Louis X 1.," "The Merchant of Venice," and
the "Jealous Wife," but was anxious to see.thein again.
This is due entirely to the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Kean are
great actors—made so by their natural talents and by devo-
tion to their art. Their superiority is the fruit of careful
and diligent study, constant and assiduous practice, and a
lofty ambition to excel in their profession. Such qualities
when applied to natural aptitude for art are always sure to
achieve great excellence, and, what is more to the point for
both actor and manager, they achieve a paying success.
This is observable in their present engagement in this city,
as it was in the last. The Walnut-street Theatre is filled
every night in every part idf the house. We do not go
into any criticism or analysis of their acting, for it is no
longer necessary to do that. To-night they appear in the
Gamester—Mr. Beverly, by :Mr. Kean; Mrs. Beverly, by
Mrs. Kean. ;To-morrow night is their farewell night,
when they present "The Stranger" and "The Wonder."

The New York Tribune says that the ques-
tion of the recognition of the State Governments
in the lately rebellious States will shortly bo brought to a
practical test. Measures have been taken by prominent
loyalists in the Soutb, and are now being perfected under
the advice of leading men in Congress, to bring this ques-
tion to an early decision. The plan is as follows :—Loyal
men, and they only, both black and white, in the States
of Arkansas, North Carolina, Louisiana, and elsewhere
have taken steps toward the formation of new State
Governments. These loyal men, without respect to colour,
will shortly issue calls in their respective States for State
Conventions, and elect delegates thereto ; the Conven-
tions so formed will frame State Constitutions, embodying
the principles of loyalty, freedom, and equal rights ; will
pledge themselves to the payment of the National debt,
the Repudiation of the Rebel debt, and the disfranchise-
ment of the Rebels. This being done, they will then pro-
ceed to elect Governors, State officers, Representatives and
Senators; the latter of whom will at once demand admis-
sion into Congress.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE EASTER BENEDICTION.

ROME, APRIL 1 (Evening).

The Pope gave to-day the benediction Urbi et
Orbi. The crowd on the occasion was enormous,
and his Holiness was received with cheers.

The ex-King of Naples and his family, the Prince
and Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Count of
Flanders, and the Diplomatic Corps were present.

BOMBAY MAILS.
MALTA, APRIL 1.
The China leaves at 9 p.m. to-day for Marseilles,
where she may be expected on the 4th inst.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, March 31, Three o'clock.—The market
closed at the following quotations
per Cents 96 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 50
Do. end month 67 40
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 632 50

Bank Shares 3560
Italian Loan 57 90
Do. end month 57 60
Mexican Loan 46 75
Do. Bonds 3Ol 25
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
SWAYS.

Unis —
Do. end month —

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western

Acct.
860
1110

Cash.

- - ~. 870 -
- - ... 548 75
- - ... 560 -
- - ... 535 -
- - ... 105 -
- - ... 377 50
- - ... 388 75

Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- - ... 160 -
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87 50

MAGAZINE-DAY.

BLACKWOOD.—" Sir Brook Fosbrooke " is con

defiance.

tinued, and it is quite a relief to find that Trafford is
about again after his accident. The various cha-
racters in the story are ably described, and the inci-
dents striking. It is quite a piece of poetical justice
when Colonel Sewell hears some of his own doings
n India described by some young officers who had for-
gotten the name of the miscreant referred to. " Shrewsbury
School, Past and Present" is a paper that will please some
readers, and, indeed, the more a general knowledge of our
public seminaries is diffused the better. It is truly said
that "standing on the border-land of England and Wales
few places have been of more account in British history
than the pleasant town of Shrewsbury," Mwythig, as the
Welshmen call it to this day. It is satisfactory that this
interesting account hero given winds up by the remark that
Shrewsbury stands high for the renown of her scholars,
and that the Royal Commissioners term the series of emi-
nent names belonging to the school a " magnificent list.'
The Porson Prize for Greek verse at Cambridge has
been almost monopolised by the school, " Shrewsbury
scholars having won it eighteen times in the last twenty-
six years." "Memoirs of the Confederate War for Inde-
pendence" are continued, and are as interesting ant ani-
mated as heretofore. "Miss Marjoribanks" in this instal-
ment is very exciting and eventful. The election results
in the return of Lucilla's candidate, and altogether some
crisis is about to take place in her life. A curious episode
is the reappearance of Barbara Luke at a most inopportune
juncture, and Mr. Cavendish's sins in days gone by were
visited on him, for she was a regular Macploy, and by
flaunting in and out fiorn " kirk to market," as it were, she
became the topic of conversation, and covered her quon-
dam admirer with confusion. " Cornelius O'Dowd" takes
up the Fenian post this month, and declares that he finds
considerable resemblance between the two plagues now in-
esting us, " Fenianism and the Riuderpest." The
' House" also engages the notice of this
universal critic, and he truly declares that no-
thing distinguishes the English House of Commons from
all foreign assemblies so much as the fact that great
ability alone does not impress there. intellectual supe-
riority will not sway it alone ; but a man must possess
those traits of character and temper which are popular in
seciety. "Demonology at Home and Abroad" is a curious
paper that will be entertaining to some. " The Condition
of the Government" does not hold out a very fair prospect
of success for the Ministry, and with merciless precision
we find sketched out before us all the mishaps and misad-
ventures which the members of the Administration have
fallen into since the commencement of the session. It is
not an enviable catalogue, beginning with the significant
debate on the cattle plague, and ending with the confusion
of the new Reform Bill. The description given of the
state of the Government is almost ludicrous in its ibten-
sity of wretchedness. Yet, who can say that it is only
because a political opponent looks into the state of their
fall that the agony of their position is so piled up. " The
condition of her Majesty's Ministers is at this moment as
pitiable as their worst enemies could desire it to be. They
have contrived in the course of four or five months to
render themselves contemptible in the eyes of the whole
nation. No man of any note in Parliament, be his political
opinions what they may, has the smallest confidence in them
—their internal divisions, barely concealed at the outset,
are become common topics of conversation at all the clubs,
and the course into which their legislation—or, to speak
more correctly, their attempts at legislation—has fallen,
poiuts to one issue, and only one, which cannot now be far
distant."
FRaSEn.—A melancholy interest attaches to the
first paper which meets us in this number—an
article on Grote's "Plato" by the late Dr. Whewell.
It contains the last words, as the editor reminds us,
which the world will ever have from his pen, and
was prepared for the press just before the fatal
accident which so suddenly terminated an honoured and
valuable career. Of Dr. Whewell, in the brief preliminary
notice, it is remarked that " Few men of his generation
have been, during the course of a long life, so constantly
and prominently before the public; and fewer still have
had a more steady allowance of fame and success in so
many different walks of literature." In illustration of the
variety of his acquirements, it is observed that the occupa-
tion of the two professional chairs which he held in suc-
cession required a wide range of intellectual power, being
totally distinct from one another—mineralogy and casuis-
try, and there was scarcely any branch of literature or
science to which he turned his attention that he did not
thoroughly master. The essay upon Mr. Grote's " Plato"
can therefore scarcely fail to attract the first attention of
the reader. Dr. Whewell's remarks on the Dialogues will
remind the student of some of the earlier setions in the
first volume of his " History of the Inductive Sciences.',
In speaking of the drama of Charmides, he asks what good
can come of playing against each other the different mean-
ings of Sophrosyne ? " Plato's proceeding in this and the
like dialogues is not a search of truth, but school-boy exer-
cises on the meaning and application of words," and he
thinks Mr. Grote to have been misled, like many pre-
ceding critics of Plato, by tho belief of a profound
meaning, and a systematic philosophy existing in Plato's
mind, when there was in fact, at the time when he wrote,
no such thing." Leaving this interesting essay, to which
circumstances have given a double value, we come to a
story or sketch called " The Passion of Martin Holdfast,"
written with vigour and even eloquence, but somewhat
unsatisfactory nevertheless. " Thoreau" is a memorial of
a gifted American, whose works and powers are less known
among us than they deserve to be. An article on the native
army in India recommends its total abolition, and in its
place the strengthening and improvement of the police and
of the civil establishments; and, above all, the government
of the people in accordance with their established customs
and principles, and not in compliance with artificial Eng-
lish theories. " The Reform Bill and the Government"
discusses the much-vexed question in every aspect which
can support Earl Russell's Ministry, but we should be glad
to know what the Jamaica question has to do with the ex-
tension of the franchise that certain politicians so deter-
minedly unite the two to the detriment of a fair examina-
tion of both. " From London to Rio de Janeiro" is the
continuation of an entertaining paper, and among the other
articles are an account of the native tribes on the Zambesi,
and a further instalment of " The Beauclercs."
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.—The United Ser-
vice opens with a notice of Baron Ambert on the
battle of Austerlitz, contrasting it with the inde-
cisive but bloody battle of Frederick the Great at
Zorudorf, but we think very needlessly, for who ever
hears nowadays of Zorudorf or even of Frederick
himself, unless indeed we think of the hero that was, and
laugh with derision at the hero that would be, urged on to
his destiny by his evil genius, the "bold, bad man," Bis-
marck, whose restless rapacity is hurrying on a kindred
spirit to his destiny. Let us hope, for the benefit of hu-
manity and the vengeance of the Dane, that it may be
"speedy and soon." As to Frederick and Zorudorf,
with his vinegar flask to sweeten or qualify sour Prussian
water, they are not worth altogether one pinch of the im-
mortal Nap's snuff, while gazing on, amidst his devoted
Marshals, at the fatal descent of the allied enemy down the
hill, of dismay to the one and of hope to the other. "Let
them go down quietly," said Napoleon to Marshal Soult,
"how long will it take:you to go up ?" "About twenty
minutes," said the rapture-gazing Marshal ; and off he
galloped, with his gallant heart burning with emulation, to
be first on the hill, when forth burst the sun of Austerlitz,
as they waved the banner of victory on the summit.
These were deeds worthy to be chronicled to all future
time, for "their like bath not been nor will ever be more."
There is an article on turret ships, very much in favour of
the Admiralty, and their very late conviction that the time
has come for trying if they can build a seagoing turret-
ship. After all the world has been fairly disgusted at
their mean jealousy in not permitting the gallant inventor

to have the honour of doing justice to himself and good
service to his vexed country. But that is always the offi-
cial way in which "my Lords" snub a patriot for his good
intentions, while their underlings, ever jealous of merit in
others, contrive to appropriate the invention to themselves
—and all under the patronage of the Board. But there's
a day of dead reckoning near at band, when " landlubbers ''
will be brought to book. " United States Artillery and our
Own" discusses the question of the guns in akindred spirit,
but the best gun is not yet. " The Cat Curtailed," comes
comes very appropriately after a paper on " Military Ex-
penditure," and we are glad to learn that the Admiralty,
having a due regard to their own shortcomings, are dis-
posed to deal more leniently to naughty boys, by ordering
that no more punishment be given to rising seamen with
the cat, but only with the birch—and that in a modified
degree. The hardened "old salt" is only to have a taste
of the cat—reduced from four dozen to two. This is all in
the right direction, and we give it our cordial praise ; but
why still harass good men with that "black list," when a
kind word would whitewash many a mistake, and keep the
ship's company in a cheerful spirit, "ready, aye, ready" to
do a smart thing with a will. This was exemplified the
other day by the crew of the Hector on the north-west
coast of Ireland, Captain Preedy commanding. On Satur-
day night, lith February, the engines were all to pieces,
and everything was everywhere—all abroad—when a
telegram came from the Admiralty for the ship to proceed
at once, swiftly, to garrison the fort of Greencastle, for tie
Fenians were up ! " All hands unmoor ship," was the order
passed 11.0 just midnight. Though the crews were all loose,
and everything was being overhauled, no sooner was the
call to duty passed along than every man was at his post—
engineers and all. The fires were lit, the crew helping the
engineers as best they could. The two massive chain
cables, 80 fathoms each, were hove in ; the two lower
anchors run up to the cut heads, while the launch and
other boats were hoisted in and the sails bent ; and though

the night was dark and the passage intricate, the gallant
ship was off within twelve hours of receiving the telegram.
Captain Preedy manned the post and set the Fenians at

" Our troopers are in marching taught
The quickest step to tread' •
But we go faster when we have brought
Up steam to steam ahead
And a steaming we should go !' "
A second Admiralty telegram, " Well done, Hector," would
have been gratifying to the gallant hearts that made this
rapid dash where glory calls and honour leads—but no !
The Admiralty slumbered. They had no soul of sympathy
for the stirring excitement that roused the Hector's happy
crew. When one has done a good deed praise becomes
doubly grateful because it is felt to be deserved, and it is
appreciated ever after. We remember when the squadron
of evolution was lying at Gibraltar one of the ships was
suddenly ordered to the Mediterranean. She happened to
be the "crack ship" of the fleet, and when she was round-
ing Europa Point, in beautiful style, Sir Charles Napier,
with true sailor spirit, signalled to her "Farewell; keep
up your character for smartness." This remark not only
electrified all on board that ship but the rest of the fleet,
who envied the well-merited compliment to a clever rival.
But we must close with a " Visit to Chamouny," whither
all London will soon be going after the Brighton
trip to see soldiering in earnest from the heights of Mout
Blanc, while the Austrian and Prussian Powers, friends
in iniquity, but now sworn foes in reality, are about to
bathe their wrath in blood to prove the worse to be the
better cause. But we may look on, for
' •

" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains,
They crowned him long ago,
On a throne of rocks in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow."
TEMPLE Lady Adelaide's Oath" is a
new tale by the author of East Lynne. It is
written in the usual superior manner of the autho-
ress, and already we evidently have found some
secret lurking in the story. " Archie Lovell" is
continued, and the imprudent young girl gets into
all sorts of trouble through her own imprudence. " Land
at Last" is finished, and Geoffrey Ludlow settles down
again into domestic life. " Literary Forgeries" contains
an interesting account of Chatterton. It is said in con-
clusion that "he requited the misery which the wo.ld in-
flicted by enriching it with treasures which will live as
long as art is fostered or literature cultivated by mankind.
In return for the slights of his countrymen, he left them
works which will be a source of national pride to their
latest posterity. Nor can he be said to have died without
achieving his object, which was that of literary glory, for
he already stands out the most conspicuous instance of in-
tellectual precocity in the annals of European genius."
" William Blake, Seer and Painter" is an interesting
sketch. " Anecdotes from a Blue-book" present us with
some remarkable iescriptions of criminals, and an article
by a " Real Casual on Refugees," is sure to meet with at-
tention. "An Intelligent Partner" is the title of some
lively and spirited verses, which form a variety to the
heavier portion of the contents.
TILE VICTORIA.--The translation of Professor
Laboulaye's elaborate treatise on " The Civil and
Political Status of the Female Sez," from the time
of the Romans unt;•l the present day, continues to
occupy a prominent position in this magazine. It
is still in the Fourth Book, which treats of the
Feudal Epoch, when many of the laws of inheritance and
marriage were very peculiar. It is full of infor-
mation for the curious in matters of mediaeval
interest. " How a Woman may Live" is the title of
a paper on the " status" of women among ourselves in the
present day. There is a great deal of honest truth in the
writer's indignant denunciation of the pride which will
bear dependence but will not demean itself to earn its
own bread. But when we come to the practical advice
given to those who are willing and able to work, we can-
not any longer coincide with the author's views. He, or
rather she (for we should fancy it a woman's suggestion),
proposes that single women of respectable position should,
when forced to earn a living, try a retail trade instead of
the everlasting teaching. But there are many serious ob-
jections to such a course, independently of its novelty.
Very few women not brought up to such a life would be at
all competent to manage a shop; very few could make it a
successful speculation. The pushing and active disposi-
tion required to drive a thriving .retail trade would be
rarely met :with among educated gentlewomen, saddened
by loneliness, and depressed by anxiety and sorrow. But
a more practical obstacle meets us at the very outset. Some
capital, however small, is necessary to stock a shop, and
capital is one of the very last things which single women
who have to earn their living are likely to possess. Teach-
ing, however laborious and unprofitable, demands nothing
more than health and strength, and the exercise of her own
faculties, natural or acquired ; but stocking a shop and
opening a trade is a very different thing. Those who
wish to find useful work for woman had better direct their
attention to securing for her new branches of industrial
occupation, which do not demand a preliminary outlay,
nor yet the exercise of those qualities which neither by
nature nor education is she likely to possess. There are
other papers of various merits among them, being the
first chapters of a new tale entitled " The Young Stilt

Dancer."
C onNun.i..—" The Claverings " is continued at
some length, and Henry Clavering seems likely to
get into trouble with his various entanglements.
The story is written in the usual easy and natural
manner which distinguishes this writer, and is very
pleasant reading. " Armadale" becomes much more
citing in this instalment than it usually is, if pos-
sible, and Miss Gwilt's wicked plans' seem to be
maturing only too speedily. This story seems to be
written in a very fascinating style, but it is not at
all a pleasant style of literature, for it deals almost
entirely with horrors, and is, indeed, the sensation
style par excellence. " Modern Geneva " is a
sketch of that place, which it is said may ere long
" become a sensitive point in European affaim- If
we ask our readers to interest themselves in her
affairs it is because they represent the furthest- ad-
vance of Radicalism, and in her condition we can
judge of some fruits of red government."
" Superior Information" is an article that contains
some true sayings on the mistakes made by people
through ascribing to others that superior information
which they do not really possess. " The Modern
Doctrine of Culture" is a well-written, suggestive
essay, which holds to the importance of proceeding
with the practice as much as possible. " A Letter
from a Convict in Australia to a Brother in England'.
maintains a good deal of descriptive information.

THE ACCIDENT TO LORD MILTON.—Lord Milton
is believed to be progressing favourably. The only injury
his lordship has received by the accident, reported on
Saturday, is a fracture of his left arm, and it is stated
that his recovery is not likely to be long delayed.
SUICIDE ON A RAILWAY.—An inquiry was held
by Mr. Carter, coroner for Surrey, at the Arrow-
inn, Cheam, near Epsom, yesterday, relative to the suicide
of Mr. Charles Maplesden, aged 27. The deceased was a
grocer, and nine months ago he married the wirlow of a
former master, who carried on business at Lenham, in
Kent. Thirteen hundred pounds, which he got with his
wife, he invested in a grocery business at Ewell. The
speculation did not answer, and he said to his shopman
that he felt certain he should be ruined. Last Thursday
morning ho drove over to Cheam with a friend. He then
walked to the Air-bridge, over the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway, and waited until a train approached.
The driver of the 11.30 a.m. train from London-bridge
saw him jump from the abutment of the bridge as the train
came near, and throw himself on the metals in front of the
engine. His head and right arm were instantly cut off, and
the head bounded down the line for a distance of 30 or 40
yards. Mr. Smith, the station-master at Ewell, caused the
unfortunate man's remains to be collected and removed to
the local doadhouse. It having been proved that the de-
ceased had been very desponding latterly, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of unsound
mind."