The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-31 00:00:00

LTHE WEATHE;Z IN PARIS.

We extract the following from a letter dated
August 30 :
A newspaper said the other day that Paris was
left withaut a Parisian. It is no exaggeration to
say that it is left without a single inhabitant who
can poAsibly escape from it. Summer, suspended
for a few days, has returned to us as 'Vigorous as if
it were its first appearance this year. Hot though
it be, people dare not complain of such glotious
wt tither, especially as the knowing ones prognosti-
cate a vinta:ge of such quality as has not been
known since the year of the great comet ; but they
gladly fly from heated asphalte to sea baths and
fresh pastere3. Dieppe and Trouville, V:chy and
Biarritz, overflow, while here the t!lrong upon the
Boulevards has lost its lustre, scarcely an equipage
is to be seen in the Bois dp Boulogne, and iu vain
the Pre Catalan throws wade its portals, lights up
its 100,000 lanterns, arrays its dancers on rural
stages, and illuminates the department with its blue
lights and rockets. Paris is gone abroad, and the
foreigner reigns undisptved master of the territory.
It is a complete invasion, customary at this season,
chiefly of birds of passage, who often come for only
a day, but manage to pass a week, much to the
comfort of the hotels and restaurateurs. Great
Britain is strongly represented here, especially by
he ilthy-looltitig gentlemen in capacious waistcoats,
who seem to pass most of their time in instituting
practical comparisons between Very's, the Trois
Freres, and other renowned taverns, and
whose patriotic comment usually is that, after
all. you get nothing so good hero as -in
London. But it would be hard if men
who pay so well, and enjoy such good appe-
tities andfsuch constant thirst, should not be al-
allowed to grumble while consuming the bast
of everything, and so the Parisians shrug their
shoulders indulgt ntly at John Bull's eccentricities,
while pocketing all the coin they can seduce him
' into parting with. The theatres are dull, as well
they may bin August ; a Ft such version of "Jack
Sheppard" is successful at the Porte St. Martin, its
chief attraction appearing to be a very correct
scenic imitation of the fog in which London is sup
posed to be continually enveloped ; some amusing
improprieties are played to empty benches at the
Palats Royal; the Grand Opera, ballet-less, rie va
que d'une jambe ; at the Italian Theatre an actor
named Salvini is magnified by some of the critic)
into a star of Ristori'a magnitude ; but there is
difference of opinion on this head. The veteran
Dejazet is going to give some representations, and
one of her triumphs of former days, Gentil
Bernard, is to be revived for her ; par contre,
_ben--
vassor is going away. Vivier has gone to Baden-
Baden, to delight the bathers with his in _xossini
tible wit and wonderful quadruple notes; R
is not composing an opera ; the exposition of pic-
tures, which has been extreuie thely successful this
year, is to be kept open untilmiddle of Sep-
tember, in consequence of the crowds that still flock
to it.

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THE LATE COLONEL J. Friorre.—lt. is with great satis-
faction We announce that the Chairman of the East
, c ~,pany has, unsolicited, forwarded to the Lord
India • the name of the Court of Directors, a cadet-
vayor, in
cadet-
ship for ins nephew, John Finnis, son of the late Colonel
siii,`,,ip, wa' o was murdered at Meerut at the commence.-
trent of the present outbreak in India.
r ARGYLL Rooms.—These magnificent rooms re-opened
for the sea,on on Saturday evening last. They have
been entirely redecorated, and present an unrivalled com-
bination of richness, taste, and elegarce. The re-open-
ing was honoured by one of the largest assemblages we
ever remember to have seen, even in that popular and
delightful place of amusement. Amongst the visitors
we observed many of the elite of the aristocracy and
army (with whom this has always been a favourite
resort) ; and, indeed, the perfect order and propriety
with which the establishment is conducted cannot fail
to secure for it the most lasting and disttnguistheadape..vr
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tronage. The orchestra, under the direction of h
conduc or, M. Lamotte, performed
admirably, and under
his able management the band will nodoubt
add to the
high reputation it has heretofore so deservedly enjoyed.

Quits. A Novel. By the Baroness Tautphoeu.,
authoress of " The Initials." 3 vole. Bentley.

Many novel readers will remember that the for-
mer work of this authoress attained some deg,o a of
celebrity. The pregent work displays ability, and
is sufficiently original to preserve the interest of
the reader, though the events are in no deisree
startling. It relates the fortunes of a young girl,
Leonora Nixon, who is left an orphan by the 'Pad-
den death of her father at an hotel, on their way to
England after a continental residence of many
years. She hoes to the house of a cousin, Lerd
Medway, where she resides for some time, but as
he sets his heart on her becoming his countess, hie
mother and sisters take alarm and send '=for his
younger brother to arrange matters. This be does
in a very summary manner. He takes his brother
to Paris and persuades him out of his resolution,
he writes to a city uncle of Leonora's, syeaking of
her very harshly, and begs he will receive her, and
at a day's notice, poor Leonora, who knows nothing
of the reasons for the change, is dismissed to Rus-
sell-square, to her solitary uncle's residence. Here
she remains ten years with very little variety.
son wire, be is deter-
Her uncle has an, only
mined shall figure in the fashionable world
and make a grand marriage. This son falls in love
with Leonora, but his father refuses his consek, so
he marries a widowed lady of fashion, and dies
ater a few years. His sorrowing father does- not
long survive him, and leaves all his we filth t-tY Leo •
!lola, echo suddenly finds herself rich and indepen-
dent. Her indignation against Charles Thorpe,
Lord Medway's brother, is not diminished by dis-
covering am gh r uncle's paper 'he letter he h,ad
written about her. In company with the family of
another uncle,. ifie goes abroad, her contirient el
education having endeared Germany especitilly to
le r. Here, as alt lovers of romance will antitifpate,
she meets 'harles Thorpe, now Lord Medway; bus
as he is travelling with a German ft ieud who mis-
pronounces his name, and she is generally supposed
to be her uncle's daughter, they do not know each
other. Leonora is accidentally undeceived, and
dislikes him accordingly, while Mr. Tors), as'he is
generally called, after vainly dissuading 'his
friend from admiring the heroine of such vulgar
connections, ends by, proposing to her himself,
when of course he meets with a decided refusal,
which leaves the belligerents " quits.° However,
affairs are subsequently arranged in a more satis-
factory m inner, though not to the inclination cf
Count Waldemar, tho German friend. The chief
part of the story is laid abroad, and a good deal
of interest centres in the peasant life of Germany,
the love affairs of the village where the party re-
main some time, and the adventures of the " wilde-
chuetz" or hunters of tho chamois without permis-
sion—a more adventurous kind of roaohing—
occupy a prominent position. Little is said
of London, as the heroine's residence there was
peculiarly uneventful, but the villages and views,
the Alps and their storms, are described con amore.
It gives a complete picture of German lire, end one by
no means unattractive., while the bills and dales,
the tempests and the cataracts, are represented in
glowing colours. The story can lay clam also to
a certain degree of resemblance to real I,fe. Few
novelists would have the courage to represent their
heroine as passing ten years, from sixteen to twenty-
six, in a lonely house in a guise: square. The
characters too are life-like. Leonora, herself, is
very attractive, and though the same c m hardly be
said of Mr. Torp, he is certainly a very correct
likeness. Altogether the work is of a superior class
and likely to give its readers some pleasant
hours.

Nearer and Dearer : a Tale out of School. A
Novelette. By Cuthbert Bede, 8.A., author of
" Verdant Green." Bentley.
This "novelette," as it is termed, is a most at-
tractive little sketch ; sparkling, brilliant, gay, and
witty. It is the very 13,,0k to take up ou a tour,
or choose as a companion in rural walks and sea-
side wanderings. It concerns the adventures of
an individual who bad chosen " Used up" for his
motto, and was dying the lingering death of
"ennui," when a con3iderate companion sleppel
in to stay the sacrifice, and suggest some excitement.
There nothing more likely to rouse the faculties
than getting into an awkward po3ition, and of this
Arlington seemed aware when he propounded his
scheme. The various adventures and contretemps
that befell Sir Charles Chatterton at the establish-
ment of " Minerva House," are most amusingly
described and ludicrously recapitulated. Mrs.
Cia,pperclaw was a sufficient index to the style and
character of her house—

" She was a lady of large dimensions and portly
pace,' dressed in a well-worn black silk, with a shawl
loosely thrown about her shoulders, Stie had a dried-up
sort of face, very like a kippered salmon ; she had a
pair of spectacles, large enough for the bird of Minerva ;
eke bad a black wig, coming low down upon her fore-
head, and bursting upon her kippered-salmon cheeks in
a paroxysm of little ringlets, like hairy corkscrews ; she
had a cap made of stiff and dark materials, from which
depended two streamers, almost as stiff, and straight,
and square cut, as if they had been designed for an
Egyptian be4d-dress ; and she had noon her bands
black kid gtives with the fingers cut off, apparently for
the purpose of ventilation. As she clasped her hands
tightly over each other, and stood up stiff and straight,
she looked in perfect keeping with the room, and the
objects around her—buckram•and-hackboarst to the
backbone."

Though outwardly compelled to conform to the
mistress's strict rules of propriety and decorum,
there was a strong undercurrent of levity
in those who waited upon her, as was
testified by the romantic Fido, and the
flirting Dolly. It was a red letter day in the dreary
elmanac of the Minerva precincts, when the young
baronet entered the mansion. He had asked for a
Mss Smith at a venture, but it happened that the
governess of that name expected her brother from
India, and he was taken for that person. The con-
fusion may be imagined, when, after giving a cor-
dial reception to the stranger as a relative whom
long absence had obliterated from her memory,
Fanny was told the truth. However, the other
inma -cs were not thus enlightened, and when the
real Captain Smith arrived, the surprise and con-
sternation of Mrs. Clapperclaw, who thaught him
an impostor, and ordered him out of the house,
created a scene that afforded Sir Charles more stir-
ring amusement than he had ever hoped for. Vari-
ous other trifles are related in a manner that
im-
parts a zest and vivacity to the tale, while the mys-
tification caused by Miss Fanny's visitors could not
be batter, described than in the lines on the title
page :

" Has she a brother ?
Has the a nearer one
Still, and a dearer one
Yet than all other ?"

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Ang. 31.—Wind this day at noon, E.; light
breeze and fine.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. Sp.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Fala-
ver3, from Antwerp for Boston. Sailed—Mermaid, for
Trimcomalee ; Khersonese (s.), Madras; Qneen of the
South (s.), ditto.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 30.—Wind E.—Arrived—Lap-
tota (s.),for West Indies. _ _

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OrF DARTMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Perekop, from
Born uay.
OFF PLYMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Pharimund, from
Van Dietnan's Land ; Cairugorum, Calcutta.
NEWHAVEN, Aug. 30.—Wind E.—Arrived—Mareille,
from Santander for Christiana.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Duncan
Dunbar, from London for Sydney, N.S.W.; Circassian,
ditto, for Adelaide, S.A.; her Majesty's ship Trimcomalee,
Paci fia
FALMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Wind E.—Arrived—Flamingo,
from Moulmen , Eliza Yeo, Bombay for Hull. Off port—
Johun Christoph, from Hong Kong ; Elizabeth, Calcutta;
Capernicns, Charleston, for Bremen.
S,--Sailed—Edtuund Wiel.
CARDIFF, Aug. 32.—Wind
pare, for Ceylon.
LONDONDERRY, Aug. 30.—Wind W.—Arrived—Wood-
print, from Miramichi.
BELFAST, Aug. SO.—Wind E.-- Arrived—Sir Henry
Pottinger, from Quebec.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind N.
Arrived—Wm. Corey, screw steamer, from Huelva ;
Magrico, Lisbon ; Wsgoola, Rangoon ; Johnstone, Deme-
rara ; Sapphire, Qaebea ; Mary Oxley, Pugwash ; Startled
Fawn, Akyab.

QUEENSTOWN, August 29.
Arrived--Dawn and Inkerman, from Taganrog ; Roe-
buck, from Swansea, for Caldera, leaky; Wiltenstein,
Taganrog ; Europa, Marseilles ; Queen, Galatz ; Sash
Wascoe, Odessa ; Moses, Ibrail.
WATERFORD, August, 29.

Wind S.
Arrived—Mystery, from Scala Nova.
CROOKHAVEN, Aug. 27.
Arrived—Gannymede, from Alicante ; Research, Galatz.
KINGSTOWN, Aug. 29.

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Herald, from St. John's, New Brunswick

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind calm, tide last hcur's flood, weather fine.
Arrived, August 30.—Enimia, from Guernsey; Cathe•
iina Cornelia, Odense; Sindrochet, Algoa ; Sprite, Guern.
soy; Gertrude, Calcutta -gatelesq, Manilla.
Arrived, August 31—Kearney, Singapore ; Cow
'ante, Porno Rico.
Sailed. August 30—El Dorado, for Geelong.
DEAL, Monday, 9 a.m.

Wind N.E., light.
Passed at 5.30 a.m.—lndomitable, from Melbourne, for
London-
Passed in tow—Lord Raglan, from Calcutt, for London
Richard Cobden, Quebec, London; Flavio Givia, Cork,
Shields,

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD---The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Aug, 29, is 2,571, of which 1,152 were
new cases,