The Sun.
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I'HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1868.

tone of o-rer .wise politicians, there is no reason why
it should, not address itself in confidence to its
labour3) :and trust to carry them to a successful

duct. Feeling secure of their poier, and confident
in their majority, they have proceeded on so reck-
less a course that the people have become alarmed
at the consequences, and have learned to fear
and dislike Radicalism, more from what it itself
has done than from any arguments or oppostion of
its adversaries. Public opinion has come round to
the policy of the PRESIDENT, the PRESIDENT has
not moved towards it. He still maintains the same
theories respecting the Constitution of the Union
and the government of the Southern States that he
did when the general voice,
,through the elections,
pronounced against him. If, then, he has now re-
solved to sacrifice all his previous convictions to a
bid for office, we must believe that the stubborn
and unimpressible ANDREW JOHNSON has under-
gone a marvellous change. It is more easy to
believe that the coming elections have had their
share in the matter, rather promulgating
the report from interested motives than in influ-
encing the diplomatic policy of the PRESIDENT.

The Press Bill, with its various details, still
continues to occupy the attention of all inquiring
minds, and numerous speculations are afloat re-
specting its nature and character. M. DOLLFL'S
writes to the Temps on the subject, and enters fully
into the consideration of the question, lie takes a
very mournful view of the situation, and seems to
think that prosperity is far distant from jour-
nalism, and that its prospects are by no means
bright. Permission is given to the papers to ap-
pear, he admits, but immediately rejoins, "You are
prevented from living." An ephemeral existence is
what the authorities condescend to devise for these
unfortunates. "The spring and autumn of the
Press will not be far distant from each other, and
the summer, if any, will be but short."
Next it is asserted that the journalists will
have judges, but not justice. The Govern-
ment will have too much to do with the
matter, and the Correctional Court is not the fit
one to decide on such cases, and the paper that is

indicted is all but certain to be condemned, for the
terms are in fact almost synonymous ones in
reality. Perhaps we may be permitted to hope that

:his is too sombre a view to take of the affair, and

that experience will show that these fears are ex-
aggerated. Perhaps more may follow from this
legislation than appears at first sight, and at any
rate good service has been rendered to the cause of
Europe through the earnest efforts of the speakers
in the debates. The penalties which are proposed

to be inflicted in lieu of imprisonment are very
heavy, and can scarcely be put in force un-
less reason and common sense are cast to
the wind. Imprisonment, at all events, is
done for, according to the last decisions of the
Chamber. Take it for all in all, then, this Bill for
the Press is not so bad, and it may as well have a
fair trial since it has gone so far, for it will not be
impossible at a futare opportunity to revise it, and
to strike out any portion which militates against
the cause of freedom and progress, while other
clauses of a better character could be appropriately
introduced.

LATEST INTELL LGENGE•

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

-______ _________._--

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 13.

A strike and serious disturbances have taken
place in the Mareinelle and Gilly Coal Mines, near
Charleroi.
Several arrests have taken place.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANCE.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 13.

C's steamship
this port at
FrTanhcee,NfartoimonNaleNSvtcyai:rsth,iparCriovemdpaonfry
three o'clock this morning. After landing passen-
gers she proceeded for Liverpool. All well.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.

The New York papers contain contradictory
accounts from Washington regarding the Alabama
claims ; one stating that the President has resolved,
to bring the question to an immediate issue, while
another avers that the report has no foundation,
but that a correspondence on the subject of the
claims will be at once opened through Mr. Thornton.
The plan of settlement by arbitration is said to have
been abandoned.

News from Peru to the 12th January confirms
the disastrous defeat of Prado by the revolutionists
before Arequipa, and states that he retreated in
disorder upon Lima, narrowly escaping capture.
Prado afterwards left for Chili. Intense excite-
ment prevailed at Lima and Callao. The whole
country is now held by the revolutionists.

tO2I.I:EcTnNTE:KOI,.I FROM rAraa.

LITE7)II OCR OwINT CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12.

Life in Faris is made up just now —that is, the external
life of those who live in society—of two things principally,
the Chamber and the ball—the legislative talking and the
administrative dancing—at the Ministerial receptions.
The former may be more important, but the latter certainly
attracts most attention, the untimely hours notwithstand-
ing. As to the Chambers, the Press Law is still the
absorbing and all else excluding topic. Yesterday
the governMent was credited with a disposition
to reduce the tax on the issues from 5 _cents to 3,
and that in the departments to 1 cent. They
have, however, determined to continue the timbre on
the political press at five cents each number, while the
literary press may deal out scandal or rubbish to any ex-
tent without let or hindrance. Of one thing the journals
complain with manifest justness—the inexplicable privi-
lege accorded to the Petit Moniteur. It is exonerated from
the timbre as well as from postal tax. In a word, a poli-
t:eal sheet which ouLltt to pay under the present law six
'Centimes of tax and four centimes for the post, is sold in
the remotest hamlets of France for five cents. It cir-
culates to the extent of 150,000 copies per day, and there-
, fore robs the Treasury to the extent of 3,000,000 francs.
The, other papers in paying the tax help to support their
cheapest rival. Is this regalite or rarbitraire?

Some of the members of the Corps L6gislatif are very
anxious to retain the use of the dungeon for French
editors who assail private persons. The Emperor is said
to have discovered that sending editors to prison only in-
creases their popularity and power ; he prefers to fine
them. M. Guillotet has proposed a liability to a fine of
500 to 5,000 francs as the safeguard of private life. In
point of fact, the whole discussion is beside the principal
questiOn, for nine times out of ten the offence charged is
political discussion, and when that is the offence the
offender rarely escapes.

The Government are still troubled with Satan. A short

time ago I mentioned that no printer could be found who
would have any dealings with Satan. Since then it reap-
peared in the streets and the courts. It was charged with
treating of political and social economy without authorisa-
tion, and with continuing under a disguised form. the pub-
lication of the Corsatre, which bad been interdicted. Satan
was ordered to be suppressed. The manager and printer
will have to suffer each five months' imprisonment and
2,1001. fine.

The causes and objects of M. Bismarck's retirement are
still the theme of gossip. According to the Gazette
Nationale, the Count has not yet left Berlin. He will, it
is said, visit the provinces of Eastern Prussia to study on
the spot the circumstances. of the famine which desolates
the country.
The fate of England will have some interest for your
readers. The Etendard predicti it. Commenting on a
telegram relating to the riots at Cork, in which it
is stated that a suspected person had, it was sup-
posed, been carried away by the mob, the Eten-
dard says : " Tlins the crowd, exulting over these
horrible massacres, which recall those of Warsaw, carried
away this corpse tenderly, as if it were that of a martyr !
This drama contains in the germ the future of England.
She must instruct and emancipate the people—in a word,
give them equality, which is the only true liberty, or fear
their vengeance. But to enfranchise the people of London
would be to whiten the black at New York : Pailiament
can do all except that." On reading this, I only asked
myself whether your M.P.'s and your people are sighing
for a Omni-. On looking again to the article, I find that it
is the common vice of all constitutions except that of
France. The people are enslaved by Ministers. " With
restrained suffrage the supreme power is restrained, and
the Chambers are sovereign : that is fatal." Happy
Prance, did she but know her advantage
-

The Papal Nuncio bad an interview with the Emperor
on Sunday after the mass. It is supposed that the
business must have been urgent. The audience had only
been asked for two hours before. Nothing has transpired.
It is currently rumoured that General La Marmora is in
Paris, and all sorts of errands are attributed to him,
probably on very slight grounds.

The last stronghold of feudalism in Germany is threat
cued. Mecklenburg, compelled to enter the Confedera-
tion, to become a member of the Zollverein, is about to
follow Austria and Prussia in the path of progress. The
agriculturists and middle-classes are demanding their
emancipation. They are signing petitions extensively,
asking for a constitutional system in accordance with the
spirit of the' Confederation. A few years ago such a
movement would have obtained prison lodgings for its
authors, but things are changed even in Mecklenburg
now.

The alarm created by the recent telegrams from the
East, announcing that Bulgaria was threatened by armed
bands, has subsided. It was only in connection with
Russian designs that these filibusters could be dangerous,
and Russia is for the moment credited with pacific inten-
tions. It is stated that the Grand-Duke Constantine will
be sent to Poland, and that the bellicose General Ignatieff
will not be returned to Constantinople.
Recruiting, throughout Russia has been completed
within the last month. The total number of recr tits
amounts to 92,104 men, of whom only 7,851 can both i Uzi
and write. Poland contributed 10,155 men, and of
8,205 were Roman Catholics.

The retiring Governor of New South Wales seems to
have given good advice to the colonists before his depar-
ture. Democratic institutions, he told them, would not
emceed unless they were founded upon and cemented with
sterling qualities in the people, forethought and self-
sacrifice in the leaders. Re pointed, by way of warning,
to the republics of New Spain, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Sir
John Young has governed the colony since March 1861.
He is to be succeeded by Lord Belmore. The question of
State assistance to public worship has been settled during
the expiring Administration by a decision in favour of
complete independence of State aid. The most important
remaining is whether education is to be national or deno-
minational. On the whole the country is prosperous ; but
at the departure of the last mail it was suffering much
from want of rain and from excessive heat.
The Standard does -not appear to believe its Washing-
ton correspondent's " official" announcement with regard
to President Johnson's Alabama " ultimatum." We sus-
pect that few persons will believe it. The Standard is not
happy in some of its correspondents. They have a war-
like scent, which, like Homer's poetic charger, smells the
battle on the wind afar off. , Fortunately these battles
continue to " loom in the future," with the Protection
once promised by a distinguished statesman.

From the list of motions which already crowd the order-
book of the House of Commons, it is evident that the old
Parliament has a great deal of work to do before it dies.
The Conservative papers seem to think that no legislation
during this session, upon any of the vital points of public
policy, has any chance of being accepted as satisfactory
or final ; and even if we were sure that it would be so ac-
cepted, in the present character of the House and the dis-

position of the members, it would be manifestly improper
to make the experiment. On the other hand, the Tele-
graph, while admitting that public opinion is not yet quite
ripe for the settlement of one or two great questions, points
cut that this is the last year of the life of a Parlia-
ment which, waiving all other comparisons, is certainly more
Conservative ti—:n the new Parliament can possibly be, and
now, therefore, is the golden opportunity for cagy Conser-
vative concession. A skilful compromise might sail bef're
the light winds of present opinion : no storm of anger has
yet arisen to. demand thorough and exhaustive measures.
The Daily News urges the importance of effecting a settle-
ment of many long-outstanding measures, and especially
of amending the bankruptcy laws. The Star advises the
Government.to abandon the principle of the personal pay-
ment of rates as a condition of possessing the franchise.
Amid the multitude of its counsellors the Ministry will
doubtless find that there is wisdom.

Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell, M.P., who was the chairman
at the Edinburgh banquet to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, is also presiding over Mr. Beresford Hope's Lon-
don election committee. The hon. baronet writes to the
morning papers with reference to a statement that the name
of the Bishop of Lichfield was placed on the list of Mr.
Hope's committee without his lordship's sanction, and
that it had been withdrawn by Dr. Selwyn's direc-
tion. So far from this having been the case, the
bishop's name was placed on the committee by his lordship's
permission, conveyed in a cordial letter written to Mr.
Beresford Hope. The Bishop of Ely has, unsolicited,
expressed his willingness to join the committee. On the
other hand, Professor Selwyn, brother of the Bishop of
Lichfield and of L ,rd Justice Selwyn, has had his name
placed on the committee of Mr. Cleasby.

The rejection of Mr. Thorold Rogers as Professor of
Political Economy rat Oxford is the subject of a letter by
Mr. Goldwin Smith in a Manchester paper. Mr.
Smith says that the vast majority of the residential
part of the University constituency voted for Mr. Rogers.
His defeat was effected by a " swamping incursion of
Tory nonresidents, brought up by the party whip through
the political organisation which was set on foot for the
rejection of Mr. Gladstone." So ignorant were some of
these interlopers of even the name of their own candidate,
Mr. Bonamy Price, that one Tory member of Parliament,
after the election, actually called on Mr. Bartholomew
Price, the mathematician (of course a trtally different
person), and congratulated him on the result. Mr. Rogers
has issued a letter to the members of Convocation,
Clanking those who voted for him, and defending himself
• from the charge of having plunged the University into a
useler.s contest.

.e rankers' G-tazette of St. Petersburg annanii6a

that in the great arms-factory of Toula great activity pre-
vails at this moment. The establishment has already
prepared 15,000 needle-guns, and hopes are entertained
that 100,000 will be furnished before the end of the year.
These muskets leave nothing to be eesired : a soldier can
fire seventeen shots a minute if the cartridges are placed
on a table beside him, and nine when he has to take them
1-.-om his cartouche-box.

Professor Williamson, in a paper recently read before
the University College, London, supported the view that
scientific education should be given to the child at school.
No mere training in the accurate use of the words was, in
his opinion, equal to a training in experimental science,
followed by a rational study of grammar and logic. Asto
technical education, that could only be taught effectually
in a workshop, where the operations of the manufacturer
or workman were conducted with a view to profit. Tech-
nical education should be kept separate from general edu-
cation, and the basis of the latter should certainly be
science, which should be extended and developed in its
various branches. That would be the best preparation for
the business of life.

An Industrial Exhibition has just been held by the
Society of Arts. In the award of the judges there are
same remarks worth notice. The society left the exhibitors
to choose their own designs. The result has not been
successful, for with few exceptions the works wrought jn
accordance with the prescribed designs are in all respects
superior t 3 those in which the workman has followed his
own inspirations. This circumstance, the judges think,
shews that want of training is the weak point of the
English art workman. Mr. Digby. Wyatt, one of the
judges, was of opinion that the English workman required
elevation from the mechanical to the creative function.
The elevation now needed was of an elementary and
general kind, in order to economise labour. It was men-
tioned that Mr. Leicester, the glass-blower, had success-
fully reproduced the Tazza from South Kensington.
Mr. H. B. Sheridan, M.P., has just delivered his
annual address to his constituents at Dudley. He com-
menced with a reference to the Reform Bill, maintaining
that the Conservatives were heartily to be thanked for it.
The Liberals could not have passed such a measure with-
out an agitation out of doors which would have been pain-
ful to contemplate. The ratepaying clauses must either he
altered or abolished. Passing to other subjects, the hon. gen.
tlenian was met by a cry of " Education," but he confessed
he was not up to that mark. With regard to the Irish
Church, the scheme enunciated by. Mr. Bright had re-
ceived the approval of nearly every periodical in the
country. Though he did not think a panacea could be
found for all the ills of Ireland, should the Ministry come
forward without any scheme their tenure of office would
be short. Fenianism, in the hon. member's opinion, had
been greatly exaggerated. A man that could believe that
anyone, whether Irish or American, could convince Eng-
lishmen that any power could succeed in separating Ire-
land from England, was only fit for a lunatic asylum. Mr.
Sheridan also said a word on the poor law system, which

he characterised as abominable. The poor rates should be
xllected and the poor maintained by the direct action of
he State. A vote of confidence was subsequehtly passed.

The Bishop of Capetown has forwarded to the Bishop
of London what may be regarded as a final letter on the

Colenso-Macrorie difficulty. Dr. Gray says to his right
rev. brother : " I leave you to judge whether your course
has been consistent with equity hitherto, or whether it
will be either fair or generous to repeat it when those who
have been most anxious to meet you in that open discussion

from which you shrunk shall have left these shores. Your
avowal of being in open communion with Dr. Colenso I
must leave to the judgment of the Church of England.
You have at least now spoken out fully and boldly as to
your spiritual relations with him." The Bishop of Cape-
town concludes by observing that very eminent lawyers
have held that Dr. Colenso was spiritually and canonically
deposed, and that there is no lawyer of repute who holds
that the consecration of an orthodox bishop would be a
violation of any law.

The Marquis of Waterford, who sat fora short time in

the House of Commons as Earl of Tyrone, has been very
seriously ill. Whilst hunting at Curraghmore he was
thrown from his horse, and sustained some very serious
contusions. On his return to London he was seized with
a dangerous illness, and for some hours his lordship's life
was despaired of. Judicious medical treatment has suc-
xeded in bringing the marquis out of danger.

Reference has more than once been made to the alleged
uppression of some London branches of the Reform
:Jeague. At the last meeting of that body Mr. Beales
read a statement, drawn up by the landlord of a
public -house in Leather - lane, which shewed that
a detective had intimated that unless the meet-
ings accustomed to be held in his house were
discontinued he would lose his license. Mr. Beales
enclosed this statement to Sir R. Mayne. The reply was
to the effect that the Chief Commissioner declined to enter
into any correspondence concerning a communication made
by the police to the landlord of the Nag's Head. Mr.
Beales contended this was an evasion, and said he would
repeat his inquiry by what authority the police interfered
with the meetings. It was then agreed to have a lecture
at the house as soon as the correspondence closed.

Dr. J. H. Stallard has read a paper at a meeting of the
Sozial Science Association upon the necessity for a full
iry into the administration of the poor law and its effects
or the ph) sical and moral condition of the poor, and on
a a ire ter ests of the lower orders of ratepayers. He
-.:ged that the workhouse was demoralising, and the test a
o ;alisation of vagabondism. The machinery of the poor
.w conspicuously failed in so relieving the sick poor as
; , promote industry. He thought out-relief should be
'ore freely exercised ; and in conclusion expressed a hope
that the Government would take up the subject. In the
discs sion that ensued, Mr. Buxton, M.P., who pre-
sided; said that a considerable amount of reform w as abso-
lute].) imperative, for they had reached a point at which a
strento us movement was necessary. The first thing they
wanted was that every destitute person should receive
shelter and support, but at the same time they must
take care that the self-reliance of the poor was not
destroyed.
Amongst the IV.P.'s who addressed their constituents
on the eve of the opening of Parliament were Mr. P. A.
Taylor and Mr. Harris at Leicester, Mr. Wykeham
Martin and Mr. Serjeant Kinglake at Rochester, Colonel
Gray at Bolton, Mr. Candlish at Sunderland, and Mr.
Baines at Leeds. The address of the last-named hon.
gentleman was delivered at the annual meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce. The general depression in com-
mercial affairs was the topic on which he chiefly touched.
There must, he thought, be some cause for the remarkable
contrast between the state of the country two or three
years ago and its state at the present time. In his opinion,
it was in a very great degree owing to the excessive specu-
lations and over-trading which pparently had been
brought about by an overweening' confidence in the con
tinuatioi: of good trade. Mr. Baines, while thinking that
a simple yet stringent measure of bankruptcy law reforn,
should be passed, doubted the wisdom of placing the tele
graph system of the country in the hands of the Govern-
ment. He urged caution in dealing with technical educa-
tion, for he feared that we were inclined to proceed too
rapidly with the consideration of this important question.

HOW OUR TAXES ARE RAISED.—A. return has
just been published "of rates of all taxes and imposts
raised in the United Kingdom, together with the gross
amount yielded by each tax or impost, sheaving the gross
revenue in the year ending the 31st day of March, 1867."
It shewe that the customs duties raised on tobacco amounted

to 26,50C,000 ; sugar, £5,800,000 ; tea, coffee, chicory, and
cocoa, £:',100,000 ; wine, £1,300,000 ; corn, &c., £BOO,OOO,
dried fruit, £400,000; and other duties, amounting alto
gether to £22,350,000. This is nearly a million over the
returns of 1866. With regard to the excise, the duty raised
on malt is stated at £6,900,000 ; spirits, £11,500,000 ; and
brewers' licenses, 2370,000 ; amounting with other impost:
to £21,500,000. The stamp duty is given at £9,600,000
the income tax at £5,700,000. The total assessed taxes.
including income and land tax, £9,200,000. The tota.
amount, including the castoms, excise, stamp, and °the)
taxes, was £62,700,000.

MADNESS AND MURDER.—An inquest has been
helds at Wickham Market, in Suffolk, respecting the deati.
of a child aged 2 years and 2 months. The deceased wa:
the son of a young woman named Clara Coleman, who had
been confined in the Melton Lunatic Asylum, but was dis
charged thence in autumn last, although not cured.
Since that time she has resided at her mother's house;
and has been watched with great care. On Sunda:.
evening, at about seven o'clock, she took the child wit'
her into the yard at the back of the house ; and as son:
time passed without her returning, her parents went t-
seek her. They were astonished to find that she ha
managed to escape from the yard, and had taken the chi)
with her. About an hour later she returned to th
house, but did not bring the child. She was in a mos
pitiable state. Her clothes were completely saturate(
with water, and in her hair stuck briars and brambles
There was an unusually wild look about her face, and ii
her excitement she repeated the words " The bridge, tla
bridge ?" but nothing more. A search was made for the child
and at about ten o'clock the same night its body was fount
floating in the river nearly two miles away from the house.
It seemed clear that the poor mother had in her insanit
taken the child with her from the yard, through field afte'
field, bedragging herself with dirt and wet, and catchin;
bits of briar and bramble in her hair, until she reache
the riverside. Then she appears to have thrown th
child into the water, and so drowned it. How she manage
to keep the child quiet throughout that stolen journe:
cannot be surmised. The jury returned a verdict o
wilful murder against the mother, . and were carefu
:to state at the same time that they were aware of he;
insanity. -

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 12.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and attended by
the Duchess of Athole.
Iler Majesty went out this morning, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice..

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
drove out yesterday.

LITERA LURE.

Mss Kavanagh's New Novel.

Dora. By Julia Kavanagh.

Thre,! \rots. Hurst

and Blackett.

A charming story most charmingly written, full
of incidents and full of character. " Dora" is in

many respects the happi:st effusion of Julia
Kavanagh's imagination—always excepting her

exquisite tale of " Madeleine." Although the scene
of her new nuvel occasionally at critical intervals
carries the reader, now to Paris, now to London, it
for the most part lies in Ireland and in provincial

France—in the neighbourhood of Dublin and in the
neighbourhood of Rouen. It is only when the heroine

arrives first of all at Rouen that the interest of the

plot can be said to commence in earnest. Not but
what the opening of the narrative has a quiet charm

of its own; namely, when Dora is first revealed to
us as the central figure of the little home group,
in which her companions and associates are her

mother, her brother, her aunt, and her cousin.
Dora's mother—that dear little widowed French

woman, whose relief, in moments of ennui, is to

play a patience with the cards, chiefly the patience

of Louis XVIII. Dora's aunt—altogether the
most original creation in the book—that dull, sullen,

short, square-built, uncomely Mrs. Luan, who, be-
ginning with being next door to an idiot, and deve-
loping afterwards into a pitiless conspirator, ends

by becoming a madwo►nan afflicted with
the deadly passion of homicidal mania. The con-
trast of these two sisters-in-law—Urs. Courtenay

with her " purring," and Mrs. Luau with her
" buzzing "—is very cleverly delineated : Mrs.
Luan, by the way, having a sort of a resemblance to
that eccentric old lady " Mr. F.'s Aunt," known to

all the readers of " Little Dorrit," as the charge of
Flora Casby and the terror of Arthur Clenam.
The resemblance here hinted at is but very subtle in
its way, for Mrs. Luan is thoroughly original—but, for

such as it is, it will be recognised by the discerning,
and among others not the least readily by Miss
Kavanagh herself, where Dora's Aunt (like Mr.
F's: Aunt) interrupts the most amicable conversa-
tions with the most unexpected, and sometimes, to

all appearance, the most irrelevant observations.
£hese observationsof her's, moreover, being couched
in terms the most aggressive, yet, at the same time,
the most unprovoked. It is noticeable even in the
habit she (Mrs. Luau) has of twitching her cap off

and throwing it from her—once on to the top of Mr.
Ryan's head —with the exclamation in regard to

her own of " 0 my head's so hot!" Not that Mr.

F.'s Aunt had any similar trick of her own—but
that this whimsical habit of Dora's Aunt is just
what we might have expected to have found related
of the other old oddity. Dora's brother, already
alluded too, poor Paul Courtenay, soon enough
disappears from the scene, dying off as he does
very prematurely. There is a pathetic remem-
brance of him nevertheless thoughout the whole of
the remainder of the narrative—particularly in

connection with his failure in competing for the
estate of Deelah by compiling a catalogue of the
ceramic collection of its owner, Mr. Courtenay, and
in connection also with his having been jilted (on
his failure in that competition) by the pretty, heart-
less, brainless coquette Florence, to whom he,

poor fellow, was .previously to have been mar-
ried. It is the successful rival of Paul Courte-
nay, who is the hero of this charming story,
about Dora her Adventures and her Misadven-
tures. Until we have some time been located at
Rouen in company with Dora herself, her aunt,

Mrs. Laan, and her mother, Mrs. Courtenay, we
have only once or twice beard of him, and even then
merely incidentally. He, too, as a character, is
thoroughly and completely original—and yet he, too,
has in a few particulars a subtle resemblance to
Another character well known in modern fiction.
We mean where, as Doctor Richard, he recalls to
our recollection, time and again, Charlotte Bronte's
Monsieur Paul Emanuel, the teacher of " Villette."
Dora herself, bright, grey-eyed, brown-golden
naked, good, gifted, loveable Dora Courtenay is the
" best beautiful" of all the charming delineations in
this delightful and at intervals enthralling narrative.
The gradual growing or dawning (quite uncon-
sciously to herself at first) of her tender love f orD oc tor
Richard, is portrayed with admirable grace by
Miss Kavanagh. The revelation of his identity by
Doctor Richard when Dora (with her aunt and
mother) first makes acquaintance with the
picturesque beauties of Les Roches, may be
said to inaugurate the real passion and
glamour of the plot. Surprise after sur-
prise comes thick and fast then upon poor
love-lorn Dora. Doctor Richard is no longer
Doctor Richard. The needy, thrifty, lonely Btu-
lent proves to be a wealthy country gentleman—a
landed proprietor—the owner of Deelah—having a
!ong lease of Les Roches as his French residence.
Instead of being heart-whole—as Dora had sup-
posed him to be—he turns out to be a
widower with a little daughter. And not
only to be a widower, but a widower who is be-
trothed to one he hopes soon to make his second
wife. And she no other than Florence, who, after
jilting Paul, has survived the husband she had
married in his place, and is now about to dispose
herself on Paul's successful competitor for Deelah
—the owner now of Deelah, Doctor Richard
now no longer, but Mr. Richard Templemore, of
Deelah and of Les Roches. How the rest of the
narrative is worked out we shall not here spoil the
attraction of Miss Kavanagh's new story by relat-
ing. It is, we repeat, full of surprises. Hope and
despair—joy the most intense and grief the most
profound— alternate with one another through a
series of extraordinary vicissitudes. Besides Ole
principal persons, already either particu-
larised or merely hinted at among the
latter being Dora's cousin, John Luan, who is in
love with her, in his dull, stupid way, all through
the book, without having his love (except in an
irritatingly cousinly manner) reciprocated by her
from first to last—besides the dramatis personal
already specified, several other individuals are
introduced to us at Rouen and at Les
Roches, whom, when we close the book,
we hold still in pleasant remembrance. Amoni
these Madame Bertrand, the old landlady, and
Monsieur Menard, the keeper of the brit-a-brae
shop, little Eva, Dora's pupil at first and aftervi.arclB
her step-daughter, with others unnecessary here to
_
enumerate. The only oversight that occurs to (l.'.
recollection, on the general clearing up of the
difficulties and entanglements of the plot—and
is one that seems to have slipped altogeth_s:
from the remembrance of Miss Kavansg_
--is, as to what ever became of Fan,
D2O
And of the letter left in her charge filled with t 1:
returned bank-notes. Barring this—and it is I 0
itself the merest trifle--the story, as a story,
cisheaer::
plete ; and it is not only complete, but it is
ing—a tale worthy of Julia Kavanagh, a nv''of
always agreeable to us as the authoress
" Nathalie" and of " Madeleine."

The Marquis of Waterford has been sufferil3!
from very serious illness. His lordship, on the 4th
while out hunting with his hounds at Curraghraore, W 9.9
thrown from his horse, and sustained some severe coottl-
3ions, having cut his face and received a severe 913061-
On his return to town, On Friday last, he was taken se'ro".
)usly ill from inflammation of the bowels. For soms britii4ol
tie was in a very precarious state, but by judicious 133 e
fiord
treatment he is in a fair way of recovery. It wdl
his lordship's numerous friends pleasure to bear that Ye,.
torday he was pronounced by hie medical attendants to
out of danger.