The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—MeaIIow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; clove]
do., £3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load
Trade dull,

CUMBERLAND.- Meadow hay, 42 2s to S 5 Os j
clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od ; and straw, 16s to £2 2s
per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our
quotations.

WHITECHAPEL. - Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ;
clove', £3 lOs to £6 Os Od and straw, £1 15s to £2 OA
per lead. A heavy demand.

ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—A meeting of this
society was held on Tuesday evening, the 4th inst., Mr. J.
Crawfurd, president of the society, in the chair. The fol-

lowing gentlemen were announced as new Fellows•of the
society :—Sir G. Bonham, K.C.8., the Hon. L. R. Reid,
and Mr. W. Spottiswoode, M.A., F.R.S. Papers were
read by Mr. G. Busk, F.R.S., F. 1.5., on " Observations
on a Systematic; Mode of Craniometry," and by Mr. R. H.
Major, F.S.A., on " Native Australian Traditions." After
the reading of the papers, the chairman, Dr. Knox, Mr.
Burke, Mr. Dunn, and others took part in the discussion.
THE VOLUNTEER FIELD-DAY AT WIMBLEDON.
—lt is understood that the Volunteer field•day at Wimble-
don will take place on the 13th July, and that the move-
ments will commence immediately after the distribution of
the prizes for shooting. As there is reason to believe that
some of the corps formed beyond the metropolitan district
desire to take part in the field-day, it has been decided that
such applications shall be taken into consideratio., provided
these are received before the Bth of July, atter which date
no permission will be given. in order to avoid an undue
pressure upon the offices or Lieutenancy by a strict adher-
ence to the ordinsrj form of application, we have authority
to stsfo that, as on the former occasion of the review in
llyde-park, applications from corps to attend the field-day
at Wimbledon may be made direct to the War-office.
SERIOUS CHARGE AT MANCHESTER. Yester-
day the Manchester papers announced the failure of Messrs.
Frank Atkin and Co., merchants, with liabilities amount-
ing to £14,000, and offering ss. in the pound. In the after-
noon Mr. Francis Atkin, of Primrose-hill, Little Hulton,
was apprehended at the Bankruptcy Court, in Manchester,
under a warrant, on the charge of fraudulently obtaining
3,000 pieces of calico, value £1,106, the property of Messrs.
Seville, 22 Mosley-street, Manchester, on the 17th of last
month.
A MAN KILLED BY LlGHTNlNG.—Yesterday
morning a heavy thunder-storm passed over the metropo-
lis, and in the neighbourhood of Holloway it raged with
particular violence for a short time. About half-past
eleven two men, who were workng on the main drainage
which is being carried through the neighbourhood, were
struck by lightning in the Tuffnell Park-road. One of
them, a carpenter, was killed on the spot. The face of the
poor man presented a ghastly appearance. He was taken
to the dead-house of Holloway Chapel of Ease. The
other man, named Taylor, a ganger over the navvies, was
seriously injured, appearing to be stunned. He was taken
to the nearest hospital.
RETURN OF ENGLISH EMIGRANTS FROM AMERICA.
—Yesterday morning a party of returned English emigrants,
27 in number, passengers by the Great Eastern, arrived at 1
the Euston Station of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, from New York, via Liverpool. They belong chiefly
to tlao agricultural districts of Norfolk and Suffolk. t I

LITERATU.RE.
Thinking and Acting : a Tale. By the Author of
" Helen Lindsay " and " Our Homeless Poor."
2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

This is a very interesting story, that is more than
a tale for the amusement of the hour, for it goes
deeper into the mysteries of the human character,
and affords an insight into the motives that urge
men forward in their schemes and incite them to
ambitious projects. The hero, Albert Moseley, !s;
admirably described, and the various phases of his
character are most truthful in their representation.
He was early embittered from the wretched state
of his home and the cruelty of his father ; further
on he was hardened by the sneers and taunts he
met with at school from some who knew of his
antecedents at home. He was a striking instance
of the mistakes that are committed by those who
seek to reprove the world in the stern austerity of
judgment, and not to reform it by the softening
influence of charity. It was the more unfortunate
in Albert's case that he should have displayed such
an unbending attitude, because in the neigh-
bourhood rife with the recollections of his
father's enormities it followed as a matter
of course that many were enraged at their
small faults being visited so heavily by the son of
their former master, in comparison with whose
crimes their less venial errors seemed nothing. Sad.
would have been all in that village of Codden had
not a brighter influence intervened. Charles
Liston was a college friend of Albert's, and it was
with satisfaction that the isolated, cheerless man
found himself enabled to benefit his early associate,
and to bring a blessing on his distracted parish, by
appointing Liston to the vacant rectory. All great
changes in the dispositions of people and the tone
of a place must take time. Liston, who knew men,
was aware that it would be the labour of years and
the result of strenuous endeavours if a happier and
holier feeling pervaded the village, the charge of
which had devolved on him. It is the most inte-
resting part of the work to mark the zealous man's
efforts through the many obstacles, and perhaps the
most difficult pointwas how rightly to influence the
Lord of the Manor. It is often easier to impress
the erring with a sense of their faults, than to
make the over-righteous and the unbending mora-
list perceive they are to blame. Stern in
their uncompromising rectitude of purpose they
keep by the letter, not the spirit of the law, and
as Liston earnestly assured his friend no such cold
calculation and hard terms would soften the heart
and lead those who were suffering and often:
wounded in spirit to the Throne of Grace. The
incident of the fire that nearly destroyed Clave?ton
Park is a very exciting one, and the momentous
scene is ably described. It was the first time that
their cold and forbidding landlord had appeared
before his tenants as a man among his fellow-
creatures, tried with a calamity they could
understand, and displaying a calmness and
self-command they could alike appreciate
and admire. He gained more popularity on
that night than had been his through the long
years that had passed previously. There is another
part of the narrative that is also attractive., where
the scene is the family of the Bracys, the.; various
members of which are drawn with skiti. Marian
is a finished coquette, and unfortunately for Albert
Moseley he was deceived by her clever acting into
believing her what she professed for the moment to
be. Piqued by his indifference to her, solely for
the triumph of conquest, she exerted every art
that her wit could devise or her dexterity
execute to fascinate this distinguished in-
dividual who did not own her sway. Fortunately
for Moseley, their engagement was put an end to
by her eloping with one of the giddy set by whom
she was surrounded, the week before their marriage
was to have taken place. A very different character
. was her father's step-daughter. This young
lady is the most pleasing of all those met with in
the pages of this narrative. She is chiefly distin-
guished for her sincerity and her kindness. In her
London home, among all the inducements of gaiety
and the hindrances of a worldly and unsympathis-
ing family, she contrived to effect much service to
the distressed, under the direction of Mr. Liston
and his wife, whose acquaintances she was fortunate
enough to make. Afterwards she went to stay
with the Listons in their new home, and in that
divided parish she contributed greatly to the happy
changes that took place. Her gentleness disarmed.
suspicion, and her consistency gained for her uni-
versal respect. At the return of Mosely from the
Continent, whither he had departed after the fire at
the Park, he was united to Lilla, and the new era.
opening before him seemed indeed an auspicious
one. In summing up the changes that had occurred,
his historian thus remarks :—" Mr. Moseley's
cloudy season of life was passed during his
youth. In the after sunshine of happiness,
he yearly appreciated more and more those
sweet affections that descend from above to
strengthen and purify humanity. In all the
various influences that had combined to effect s°
marvellous a change in his nature, he recognised
one principle as their essence, and henceforth in his
walk through life he was ever ready to admit that
he who would go forth in the world as a conqueror
of vice, a winner of souls, a reformer of mankind,
must, like the great Captain of our Salvation, as
the best means of ensuring success, gather his fol-
lowers under one banner, and that banner must be
Love ! " There is ample subject of contemplation
afforded by this story for those who wish for some-
thing beyond the outer sphere of society to be
sketched for them. In the instances here recorded
of differing characters the purpose of the tale
is fully exemplified; and the reader may
turn from the mistakes committed by Moseley in
his plan of improving his neighbours, to learn of
Liston and Lille, in their several vocations, how
they laboured, and with what glorious results.
The seeds they sowed in the midst of care, toil, and
trouble were hidden for a time from the observa-
tion of men, but at last they had the happiness of
beholding the harvest of their high endeavours,
and those who had planted in tears could reap in
joy. In the exercise of his holy ministry Liston
could look beyond the present state, when, ever and
anon, some disappointment checked his course and
saddened his heart, to the sphere where his pro-
tracted work would gain its ultimate success, and.
win its immortal goal. "Thinking and Acting"
:s a novel that is sure to be appreciated by all who
admire a deep purpose iu a work, and in this in-
stance there is the attraction of an interesting story
to induce their further attention, while the style is,
throughout, of a superior character.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

OF 1862.

The Prince Consort presided last evening over
the 24th weekly meeting of the session. of 1860-61
of the Society of Arts, at the society's rooms in the
Adelphi. There was an unusually full attendance,
the large room being crowded.
The specialty of the evsnyng was a paper by Mr.
W. Hawes on " The International Exhibition of
1862."

Earl GRANVILLE congratulated the assembly on
the visit of his Royal Highness.
The PRINCE CONSORT, in reply, spoke as follows
—After having heard the interesting observations
which have fallen from the gentlemen who
have addressed the meeting this evening, it is not
my intention to trouble you with any lengthened
remarks of my own. Lord Granville has referred
to the fact of my presence as affording an evidence
of the interest that I feel in the success of the
coming exhibition of 1862. I should be sorry to
leave you to draw, as it were by inference, the con-
clusion from my presence alone that I feel such
interest, but I wish you to hear from my own
mouth that I do take that interest. (Cheering.)
• With regard to what Sir Thomas Phillips has kindly
said as to my having been able to start you in the
right path, I may assure you that what I have been
able to do I have done with great willingness.
(Cheers.) It has been a real and a true privation to
me to be prevented by the avocations and duties of
my position from giving the same amount of time
and labour to this exhibition as it was my privi-
lege to give to that of 1851. Gentlemen, you will
succeed. (Hear.) You are in earnest, and being
in earnest you will succeed. (Cheers.) I can but
congratulate you on the steps you have taken. You
have an able body of managers, with all of whom
I am well acquainted, and I know, from personal
experience, that they are thoroughly conversant with.
the work you have confided to their care. (Cheers.)
You have an able architect, a young officer of engi-
neers, a gentleman who has shown by his works,
which were opened in the Horticultural Gardens
to day, that he is capable of vast designs and of
novel contrivances, and that he is possessed of great
taste. Lord Granville and Sir T. Phillips have
both referred to foreign nations. I happen to know
that foreign nations leak with favour on the com-
' ing exhibition, and that they are ready to come and
measure their strength with ours: (Hear.) I need
not repeat the warning and encouragement which
Lord Granville has thrown out to the manufacturers
and artists of this country to do their utmost in order
to maintain the position svhich they so gloriously
secured on the last occasion. (Hear, hear.) The
duty which I have now to perform is a short one and
a pleasing one, that of proposing to you to join me
in returning thanks to Mr. Hawes for his able and
valuable paper. (Cheering.) It contained a compre-
hensive review of all the points whieh are of import-
ance to us to consider with regard to the greit uuder-
taking before us, and he has expressed his hopes for
the success of that undertaking based upon what I
believe to be a perfectly true picture, and what I may
be allowed to say was a most gratifying picture of
the progress of this nation. (Cheering.)