The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-09 00:00:00

NOTIFICLITION.

FORT WILLIAM, APRIL 22, 1Q57.
It is with great satisfaction that the Governor-General
in Council directs the publication of the accompanying
despatch s* received from the seat of war in Persia. They
describe fully the operations of the British sea and land
forces in the attack and capture of Mohamra on the 2dth
of March, the flight of the Persian army, thirteen thou-
-I.and strong, and the complete success of the British areas
at every point.
Ihe scheme of the attack was chosen by Lieutenant-
General Sir James Outram with excellent judgment.; it
was carried through with precision ; and it has led to the
accomplishment of the object in view at a small cost of life.
The Governor-General in Council desires to offer to Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Jaines Outram his brat congratulations
and thanks for this happy result.
The engagement was on the side of the British arms a
naval one,—no land force, with the exception of one mor-
tar battery, having taken an active share iu it.. The
manner in which the task was performed is most honour-
able to the Indian Navy.
That the Officers, Seamen, Artillerymen, Marines, and
()there of the squadron did their duty with intrepidity
and ardour, is the smallest part of the praise which is owing
to them. The plan of the naval attack, which was to be
carried out in shoal and narrow meters, and in a rapid
current., by steamers of heavy daught, aomoof them encurn-
beced with vessels in tow, and the thoroughly successful
execution of every part of it, without miscarriage or con-
fusion of any kind, in the face of strong defensive works
at point blank range, havegiven proof of a cool judgment,
a well-ordered discipline, and a skilful management, of
which Commodore Young, and the officers and men
under his command may well be proud.
The cordial thanks of the Government of India are emi-
nently due to Commodore Young, and tothose who shared
that day's work with him ; and the Governor-General in
Council will have pleasure in expressing to the Honour-
able Court of Directors his hearty approbation of the con-
duct of all concerned. It, will be his agreeable duty to
bring to the especial notice of her Majesty's Government,
and of the Honourable Court of Directors, the merito-
rious services of those whom Commodore Young has
named in his despatches of the 27th Marsh.
The disembarkation of the troops above the forts took
place under the able direction of Brigadier-General Have-
lock, C. 8., rapidly, and in good order ; but -before the
landing was effected, success was already complete. The
whole Persian army was in full retreat, leavinc, in our
hands seventeen pieces of ordnance, their tents, 'baggage,
stores of all kinds, and largo magazines of ammunition and
provisions. An accurate return of casualties has not
yet been received. These wore confined to the squadron ;
and it is believed that the number does not exceed six
killed and thirty wounded. It is estimated that the enemy
log two hundred killed.
For the judicious arrangements by which the troops
were held in readiness, and their landing facilitated, the
thanks of the Government of India are due to the officers
of the General Staff, and to the other Staff and Regimen-
t a Officers indicated. in Lieutenant-Genera Sir James
Outratn's despatch. The Governor-General in Council
will not fail to call the attention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and of the Honourable Court of Directors, to the
zeal and exertions of these officers, as also to the assistance
rendered to Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram by the
officers and others serving on his Staff.
The Governor-General in Council cannot close this
notice of the operations at Mohumra without tendering his
thanks to the commanders and crews of the tran•ports en-
gaged on this occasion. The alacrity with which a dan-
gerous service, far beyond their strict obligations, was un-
dertaken, cud the courage and skill with which it was per-
formed, entitle the officers and men of those vessels to the
best acknowledgments of the Government of India.
By Order of the Right Honourable the
Governor-General in Council,:
G. F. EDMONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.

* Published in the London Gazette of the 17th of May,
.857, pages 1722 to 1730.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 6.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel
Edward Stanton, of the Royal Engineers, to be an Ordi-
nary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class,
or Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

COLONIAL-OFFICE, JUNE 5.
The Queen has been pleased to re-constitute and re-ap-
point Thomas William Clinton Murdoch, Esq., and Sir
Frederick Rogers. Bart., to be Her Majesty's Colonial Land
and Emigration Commissioners.

CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 5.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TUE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Leeds.—George Skirrow Beecroft, of the
Abbey House, ICirkstall, Leeds, Esq., in the room of
Robert Hall, Esq., deceased.
BOARD OF TRAM, WHITEHALt, JUNE 9.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of. State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Chris.
tiania, transmitting copy of a royal rescript regulating, as
follows, tho rate of exchange at which foreign silver coins
arc to be received at the Norwegian Custom-houses, in pay-
ment of duties on foreign goods entered for consumption.
Norwegian skill.
Sp. Dol.
Swedish silver specie dollar equal to 1 0
Danish R. B. dollar . •, 0 60
Spanish dollar ,, 0 107
Prussian dollar ,, 0 77
Russian silver ruble.... .......
Half ditto ditto. 7, 0 40
English crown ,, 1 0
Half ditto .
English shilling ,, 0 24
Two half Dutch guilders 79 0 110
One ditto ,, 0 41
Five franc piece ......... ... ~ 0 100
Two franc piece l/ 0 40
One and a half franc piece „ 0 30
Franc piece f 1 0 20
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Warwick—Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., to
be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Dorby—Francis Noel Mundy to be Deputy
Lieutenant. -
Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Edward John Jervis, Gent., to be Ensign, vice King,
appointed to 2d West Regiment. •
The Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—William P. Alan,
Gent., to be Cornet, vine Hamilton, promoted.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which

appeared iiitbe Gazette of 13th February last.]
Prince of Wales' Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia—
John May Somerville, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Dunlop,
promoted.

BANKRUPTS.
Charles Cullen Mercer, builder, Margate, to surrender
Juno 18, at one, and July IG, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, offinal assignee, Basinghall-street;
Bischoff, Come, and Bompas, Coleman street.
William Haslam, horn dealer and horn cutter, Sheffield,
Yorkshire, June 20 and July 18, at ten, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Unwin,
Sheffield.
Samuel Wroth Anthony, commission merchant, Liver-
pool, June 30 and July 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Pem-
berton, Liverpool.
William Lyon, butcher, Guildford, June 19, and July
21, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official as-
signee, Aldermanbury ; Lowrance, Flews, and Boyer, Old
Jewry-chambers.
Joseph Brook, stuff merchant and manufacturer, Law-
rence-lone, City, Jane 18, at two, and. July 24, at eleven,

LITERATURE.

The Fairy Family. A Series of Ballads. Longman

• and Company.
An elegant and, charming gift-book, comprising
within it some twenty-three very dainty Ballads
and Metrical Tales, commemorative of our Fairy
Mythology. Our Fairy Mythology, observe—the
Fairy Mythology of the Europeans. The Family
is a very large one, embracing among its numbers
Fairies of the Woods and of the Groves, of the
Fields and of the Mead,-)ws, of the Hills and of the
Caves, of the Sees and of the Rivers, of the Hearths
of the Homestelds. As one of our young poets
sings With a sweet treble voice (William Allingham
wit)-- '

" Wee folk, good folk, trooping all tomether--7.
Green jacket, red cap, and gr3y coek's feather !"
The motto of eie b)ok imprinted upon its titic-
page appears to be addressed rather to its subject
than to its readers—

"Love them that honest be,
And help them in necessitie."

A pleasant little scrap of poetic prose from Luther
is tagged on to the Lack of this title-page like
a sort of a mystic amulet—half apology, half
encomium : " I would not for any quantity of goki
hart with the wonderful tales which I have retained
from my earliest childhood, or have met with in
my progress through life." Who wouti? Would
any mercenary old hunx in the land ? If so—here
is our retributive ill wish for him—May the gold
so chosen prove in very truth to be " fairy-gold,"
melting away in the grasp of his hard like snow-
flAces, or crumpling up in its hot pressure into
withered leaves !. So much for the momen-
tary 'musing lyrn of that thought of Lu-
ther, prettily chosen by the author for his
volwine—like the tiny printed clistich from a Christ-
mas comfit twist, cl up into a little explosive "kiss !"
Whoever the writer of the volume may bl—it hAs
evidently been, in regard to the hand that wrote it, a
manifest labour of love. The Preface—which is dated

Oxford, Apiil, 1857," (so that the Fairy Family

has been evidently nurturei, not inappr.ipriatey,
all things condlerad,witilin the laving arms of Alma
Mater)—announces, as the "reason" for this Book,
the fact that hitherto our Fairy Literature has been
to all intents and purposes nothing brAtar than a
" moral poison"—" weakened by unmeaning ex-
travagances, 'polluted lay indelicate allusions, and
disfigured by purposeless cruelties and crimes."
We can fancy Tom 110 id, much as he loved them,
ten•lerly as he sang of their glor;es, sweetly and de-
liciously as he °haunted his lamentation over their
disappearance, adding (with a twinkle of fun in *a
eyes) to this enumeration of their imputed rascali-
ties—" Little Varmints !" Let that pass, how-
evtr; and let us (for the sake of our author's ar-
gument) admit the accuracy of his reprehensive al-
lusions to 'our Fairy Literature—in spite of
Hood's " Lament," in spite of Co!eridge's poatic
we ikness for the "Pixies, ' in spite of Ariel in the
bill of the Cowslip, and the tiny rabble rout of
"Midsummer Night's Dream" from Oberon and,
Titania down to Puck, Cobweb, and Peasblos.:om !
Granting our author's objections for the sake of
his argument—we accept his book for its own sake
gladly and right heartily. He, in sooth, must
neads' be an unconscionable curmudgeon, who
cannot find inhis bosom so:ne little gossamei threads
among the fairy clrdage of his heart-strings• to tie
to it tte Good Folk trouping fantastically over
these pages—to the music of the author's rhythm,
to the clinking cymbals of his rhyme, in the rosy,
glowing light of his imagination. Sylvan Fairies
—the: Elf-folk, the Korrigan, the Moss Woman,
the Vila, and La Dame Abon le ! Pastoral
Fairies—the Wee fair folk, the Lutin, the
Moniciello, the Fairy Woman, and the
Fairy at), ! Water Fairies—the Fata Morgans,
the Rusalki, the Merman and the Neck (or, as
Mathew Arnold more pleasantly has it in his exqui-
site little song, " The Neckau") Cavernous and.
Hill-Country Fairies—the Still-Man and the Hill-
Man, the Trolls and the Dwarfs ! Lastly, the
Fair es of Home and Hearth—Pixies, Kobolds,
and Brownies ! Ah, the " wee folk" and the
beautiful

" Little feet that scarcely press
Tee gowan to the grass
Tottering with eagerness !"
Sometimes—and this not infrequently—our author
einbalms the memory of sane herdc tale in the
amber of a Fairy Ballad. It is thus with his me-
trical narrative of " The Vila," in which he has
celebrated the moving story of the Life and
Death, the Glory and Shame, the Rise and
Downfall of Kara George, the Liberator of Ser-
via! Already tho histery of Kara George
we very well rememter, has been recounted with
touching eloquence by Miss Laura Jewry (afterwards
Mrs. Valeniine) in her charming three volume
romance entitled the "Forest and the I'o:tress."
Supposng the writer of this graceful celebration of
'' The Fairy Family" not to have read that
historical tale already, be will thank us, we doubt
net, for commending him now to its perusal. As as-
suredly the authoress of the " Forest and the For-
tress," under similar circumstances, would thank
us equally, we rest assured, for bringing to her
knowledge the fact that here again her hero has
received the grateful tribute of a sigh—here,
through the dulcet echoes of this pathetic legend
of " The Vila." Altogether the work under our
hand, is a charming book—and one, if old in its
subject, certainly new in its treatment. It con-
stitutes in itself a wondrous treasury of elfin lore—
welcome, alike, in the boudoir and the library—
pleasant reading no less by the winter fire-side than
under the green shade of the stammer leaves.
Nothing New. By the author of " John Halifax,
Gentleman !" (Sac. 2 Vols. Hurst and
Blackett.
These volumes are a collection of various stories,
previously published, but though many may be
disappointed at not finding an original work, few
will regret .-the opportunity thus afforded them of
et* -perusal. With the exception of " M. Artiste-
sius," there is not one of the tales not far superior
to the ordinary novels met with, that, although
clever is too painful to be dwelt upon, and even as
a warning it might have been conveyed to the
reader in a better manner. An air of melancholy
pervades all the writings of this authoress, and
these brief sketches of existence are no exception
to the rule, It is a softened and subdued senti-
ment, nothing morbid or extravagant is seen ; the
same is observed in the description of the happier
phases of life. All those who are introduced to
our notice have passed through the ordeal instead
of being unmindful of its terrors; if they smile, it is
at the:respite from care, not because they are igno-
rant of its approach. Her aim and endeavour is to
exhibit a matnrer season of human lire than that
generally chosen by novelists. Youth is not shown
with unsullied freshness and undimmed bright-
ness, and, however fair in a picture, such is not
a true symbol of existence, but, after many
a storm has been encountered, many a trouble
borne, and many a sorrow gone through, the hero
and heroine is seen, in some favourable instances,
to recover strength and spirits to continue the long
journey before them.
As it is thus written of one
of the characters, " Trouble had passed over her,
ripening, not blasting, and left her in the Indian
summer of her days, a season almost as beautiful
as s ' r
p • n " This passage occurs in the " Water
Cu Cure," which is the best, and also the most attrac-
tive of the stories here met with. It cenceins the
adventures of two cousins, men who, in different
ways, had exhausted themselves physically and
mentally. Austin had led a career of pleasure,
and Alexander Fyfe had toiled in an intellectual
sphere. In a happy hour for them did these friends
repair to the mansion of their acquaintance, Dr.
Currie. There they underwent what Fyfe styled
the "spiritual water-cure." It was not only their
bodies that required bracing, but their minds re-
ceived a new tone and impression. The details
are exceedingly interesting, and the recnliar
power of the authoress is strikingly displayed in
the energetic yet sympathising James Corrie, the
sweet and resolute nature of Ellice heir, the vivid
impetuosity of Fyfe, and the kind, though indo-
lent disposition of Austin Hardy. The friends
were successful in their objects to procure health
of mind and body, if something Mill was wanting

it was not the fault of anyone, but the iuevi-
table doom of mortality, tha*, in the
blos€Din of their hope, fixed the canker and
the blight. Each went off to his appointed place
in the great highway of life, Austin to superintend
personally labours and cares he bad hitherto dela-
gated to others, a task his great energy, whicb,
though hidden, was considerable, eminently 'Wed
him tor. Fyfe in his turn resumed his task, but in
a different frame from. that in which he had relin-
quished it, his "work was whllesome, cheerful,
brave', such an one as is the Io Triumphs' of.si
great spiritual Marathon." "A Low Marriage" is
a clever story, it brings before the reader one of
those painful but oft-recurring scenes of trial when
an afflicted parent beholds the son or daughter of
their love form an engagement in every respect
undesirable. Mrs. Rochdale is a proud dignified
lady, and her feelings may be imagined. It is not
right, however, to give way entirely to pride and
prejudice; and this the mother found out at last,
in a time of suffering. "A Family in Love" is
merely a sketch, amusing in its way, indeed, the
rno,t lively of the series before us. "The Lait
House in 0 Street" is of a sombre style, and the
"Double House" represents a painful affliction.
The story is told in a most ingenious manner, and
it is not uutil quite at the conclusion that the secret
is discovered. " Alwyn's First Wife" is a narrative
written with great feeling ' • it is not, perhaps, very
likely to occur, in fact, but it is related with
a touching earnestness, and a depth of
sentirnellt that . arrests the attention. "Lord
Erliatoun" is one of the later productions
only just completed. It is of a more every day
class than those just before mentioned. Jean
Douglas, the heroine, is an estimable character,
but she does not ga'n upon the reader as others in
the novels have done. Lord Eriistoun himself is
not a man distinguished for much, and the chief
interest centres iu Mark Browne, the young mer-
chant, who, in his busy career possessed a regard
for the welfare of others, and a sympathy with
their troubles, that stamped his nature with a
grace, that all Lord Erlistoun's outward refinement
could not match. These stories may amuse a gay,
but they will be found more suitable to a grave
hour, to the study of the reader who would see life
as it is, not as it may be in . fancy, bat never in
reality—such will appreciate these pages. They
will welcome these added gems to a casket, whose
t,easoros are not counterfeit. They will acknow-
ledge them as not unworthy of what has gone
before, for they are powerful and brilliant in their
design and execution.

THE MAN ABOUT 'TOWN

ON THE DERBY DAY.

A delightfully humorous article, in a recant num-
b u. of our weekly contemporary, the Sunday Times,
has so exhilarated us in the perusal of it, that
(while regretting, on account of its extreme length,
the impo3sibility of our giving it here in its entirety)
we cannot resist the wish to afford our readers the
amusomeht of a few illustrative and very laughter-
moving quotations. It is an article that in parts
Chsrles Dickens himself might have written, and.
that Thomas Hood might not have marred hiri repu •
tation for drollery by "fathering." We will give
the cream of it, however, so that our readers may
judge for themselves. Il€re is the commencement
—and, remember, the theme is Tue Darby Day :