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THE SUN, LONDON, rj UESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1868.

been fatal. This prisoner was watched for
a week. It is curious that this should have
occurred at the time when the public are so continu-
ally startled by the outrages of Fenians. ➢lr.
POLAND very truly said that the constables who
apprehended CLANCY acted with great courage and
determination in pursuing a man who kept firing at
them, and no doubt a stop will be put to those law-
less practices NN hich have unhappily so much ob-
tained of late among desperate characters, when it
is seen that the officers on duty do not hesitate
to act, notwithstanding all danger and
difficulty. A boy was called to give
evidence, who gave some interesting accounts.
It appears that BURKE and CASEY were in the
habit of visiting his master, MULLANY, one of the
prisoners. MULLANY was a tailor, and this youth,
Mounts, his apprentice. Some of the details which
he gave tended to throw light on this complicated
affair, and particularly to incriminate BARRATT
and one of the DEsmosps. A man came to
MULLANY'S ii 01.130 on the day of the explosion, who
had been injured; but he does not seem to have
been taken as yet, but no doubt the greatest care
will be employed to take him. The prisoners are
remanded until this day week, when, in all proba-
bility, fresh revelations of a curious nature will take
place. The prisoner BARRATT made some very
flippant observations, and seemed to adopt a more
braggadocio style than the others. On the whole,
great success has attended the efforts of
those engaged in procuring the evidence, but

the nature of the offence enabled many to speak
positively, as it occurred in daylight in a public
thoroughfare. Three men have been arrested at
Deptford on the charge of being mixed up with the
Fenian conspiracy. The circumstances connected with
their capture are somewhat concise, but the police
have obtained information which induced them
to arrest four, but the remaining one contrived
to escape, evidently being more prudent
than his accomplices. At first some frivo-
lous charge was made in connection with
this case, but subsequently the matter turned out
to be more serious than had been anticipated.
Each day's intelligence seems to bring some facts
to the notice of the public. But it is satisfactory
so far to know that so much vigilance is being
employed, and by dint of strenuous exertions we
may expect that good progress will be shortly made
in this arduous attempt to put down Fenianism at
once and for ever. This mischievous cause has
been too long permitted to flourish among
us, and what with its insidious nature
and the wid.e-spread character Zof its machi-
nations, it
,has been very awkward to cope
with it. Now, however, that it has assumed such
formidable dimensions more active agencies have
naturally been employed, and thus there is no reason
to doubt that it will speedily meet with the fate it
deserves, and the capture of so many of the leaders
of the movement affords encouragement in this
direction.

The receipts of cotton in the United States con-
tinue to give painful evidence of the comparative
failure of the crops southwards. The amount re-
ceived during last week was 80,000 bales, being a
decrease of 4,000 bales as compared with the previ-
ous week. The exports, however, continue to be
large,
:—To Great the r
e followingt
Britain returns 4
oo foro
bales, the
to Hasamevre
9,000, week
prove
9,000, to other continental ports 16,000. The
total amount of stock at the American ports is
35,000 bales. Great Britain is still by far the
largest consumer of American cotton, and the mer-
chants and traders of the Union would find the dif-
ference if they could no longer rely on the demand in
her markets. Happily we are no longer so exclu-
sively dependent upon one source of supply, and it
is to be hoped that the lesson so severely taught us
during the Cotton Famine will not be lightly for-
gotten by our manufacturers. The event has proved
how prudent were those who persisted in fostering
to the utmost the exertions of cotton cultivators in
other parts of the world, since the mismanagement of
the Radicals has prevented the Southern States from
recovering the shock of the war with as much ra-
pidity as might have been expected. The absence
of capital, the uncertainty of tenure, the difficulties
regarding labour, all put obstacles in the way of
the Southern planters. The serious condition of
affairs in some of the states has forced itself upon
the notice of the less fanatical of Northern poli-
ticians. The Senate, which is usually more temperate
and less extreme than the House of Representatives,
has lately passed a bill exempting the cotton crop
of this year from taxation. Upon this bill coming
down to the House of Representatives, however,
the members refused to pass it, and the utmost con-
cession they have made is to refer it to the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means. In the present state
of the planters, unable to pay their labourers,
scarcely able to feed their own families, without
credit or capital, without security for their pro-
perty or hope for immediate improvement, it seems
absurd to talk about extorting a heavy tax. In
some parts of the South the crops are much better
than others, but in the spirit in which the House of
Representatives are legislating there is not much
hope of obtaining any recognition of such distinc-
tions. A very different course must be adopted
in Congress before the trade and commerce of the
Union can regain its former prosperity. It might
have been imagined that the direct interest which
the traders of the North have in Southern pro-
sperity would have dictated from the outset
a different policy, but unhappily the virtual Govern-
ment of the States has been, since the close of the
war, in the hands of a body of men who have no
thought or object beyond their own political ag-
grandisement.
A new candidate for the Presidency has recently
been put forward by some of the Democratic Con-
ventions in the person of Mr. PENDLETON. The
West Virginia Convention has not only adopted
resolutions in his favour, but has expressed its
approval of his scheme for the redemption of the
national debt. The Ohio and Indiana Democratic
State Conventions have also passed resolutions in
his support, and have endorsed the reconstruction
policy of Mr. JOHNSON. The same Conventions
have declared the concurrence of Democracy in
the abolition of slavery, while opposing negro
suffrage. The Georgia Convention has issued an
address protesting against the reconstruction policy
of Congress, and urging the people to unite in op-
posing negro suffrage. We are sorry to find that
negro outrages are still reported from South Caro-
lina, and it will probably need considerable vigour
and watchfulness on the part of the authorities to
repress them and guard against more united and
more dangerous outbreaks. The South Caro-
lina Convention, which was to meet on January
14, is not likely to help matters much, seeing
that it is composed of 55 whites and G 9
black,
eto
be popular amusements with either
ncgroes. Conventions will soon, however,Ns,ite ore cease
since their members cannot get
paid ! The Loui-
siana Convention already thinks of giving up its
m
eetings, while in Tennessee matters are so bad
that five million dollars' worth of Nashville City
Bonds were lately sold in New York at 58 per cent.
When things are at the worst they mend, accord-
ing to the old adage, and on this ground we may
look for a change. The trade reports of New

York for 1867 show, as far as they have yet
been made up, a marked diminution. All kinds
of goods for importation have fallen off as
compared with the preceding year. We have
said that the stock of cotton in the ports now
amounts to about 350,000 bales, while at the close
of 1866 it was nearly 550,000. The exports of
cotton during the last four months of the year just
over were 440,045 bales against 282,708 in the cor-
responding period of '66, which accounts
for the difference. The dry goods importa-
tion returns for 1867 are 106,263,613 as
against $126,222,855 for the preceding year and
$91,965,138 for 1865. The city debts of Boston
and New York show a large increase, while all
through the states wages had been reduced at the
beginning of Vie year. Employment is so slack
that trades' unions are powerless, and the labourers
have been forced to submit. A commercial con-
vention has been called to meet at Boston by the
Board of Trade of that city at the beginning of
Febt nary. It is to consider the commercial interests
of the country, and delegates from the leading
cities are being chosen to represent them. The
shipping interest will, it is thought be one of the
prominent subjects of consideration. The ship-
ping trade is in a very bad state both in the States
and in Quebec. The shipbuilders of Maine have
recently issued an address declaring thier business
to -be in an alarming condition, and blaming
Congress for it. They complain that they are so
heavily fettered that they cannot keep up with other
nations, and they demand that the burdens im-
posed by their own Government should be removed.
A demand is also made in this address that men
shall be sent to Congress who better understand
the real wants of the country. If the Boston Con-
vention can succeed in effecting so desirable a
change, it will indeed have done good service.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRIVAL OF THE SIDON.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 21.

The Cunard steamship Sidon arrived here at
12.40 a.m. to-day with 71 passengers and $160,000
in specie for England. She landed 13 passengers
and despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at one
a.m. All well.

THE ITALIAN FINANCES.
FLORENCE, Jan. 21.
Signor Cambray Digny concluded his financial
statement yesterday as follows :
The total accumulated deficit at the end of
1868 should be 630 million lire instead of 820
millions in 1867. To cover these 630 millions
there are three resources :—The current account
at the Bank, which, however, is not 308 millions
as had been stated, an issue of Treasury Bonds to
the amount of 250 millions, and an advance of 100
millions from the Bank upon the security of eccle-
siastical property.
The State is also entitled to a loan of
30 millions from the Bank. These resources
are, however, partly exhausted, so that their
will remain • deficit of 162 millions, and this
can only be removed by a fresh issue of bonds upon
the ecclesiastical property, which the Government
cannot undertake according to law at a lower rate
than 80 until after June next.
To remove the forced currency would require 540
millions in gold. At present it is necessary to find
the means of paying 378 millions due to the Bank ;
the removal of the forced currency would follow.

The Ministry proposes a gradual removal of the
deficit, 78 millions of which would be covered in
1869, and the remainder in a total period of 12

years.

The entire expense to the State occasioned by the
Garibaldian movement in October is estimated at
18,000,000 lire.

The ecclesiastical property at present sold has
realisedj4o,349,ooo million lire.

Tht Treasury has at present available the sum
of 294 millions, of which about 118 millions are to,
be drawn from the Bank, and 66 millions in Trea-
sury Bonds to be placed in circulation.
The receipts of the Treasury on the Ist January
were 1,177,570,064, and the expenditure
988,354,537 cash and bonds in hand, 189,215,527
lire.

Signor de Filippo, the Minister of Justice, has
been re-elected deputy for Isernia.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIL.

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 19.
The Syria left at 7 a.m. yesterday, and the Ban-
galore at 10 a.m. to-day.

The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
24th inst., and the latter at Southampton about the

Ist February.

SUEZ, Jan. 19.
The Mooltan, with the outward mails of the 4th
of January, left at 9 p.m. to-day for Calcutta.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, JAN. 20, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :---
41 per Cent.
End of month—
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 57i
Credit Mobilier
End of month l6B 75
Credit Foncier 1365 ;
Ead of month 1363 I
RAILWA

Bank Shares 3270
ItaPan Loan
End of month 43 15
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferred —
Ns.

Account
Orleans .................................. 875
Islorthern 1155
Lyons and Mediterranean BBO
Southern..... 5381

Western
Eastern • • 533/
Sardinian
Austrian Mlf
Lorubard 338/
North of Spain 62
Saragossa
Roman 4B

DEATH OF MR. FREDERICK SLIGIIT. —Mr. Fredk.
Slight, who till recently was secretary of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, died at his residence
in Ampthill-square yesterday. He entered the service of
the company about 20 years ago, and was but 43 years of
age when ho died. His activity and capacity fur work
were remarkable. A. few months since he broke down
mentally apd physically, it is believed in consequence of
the anxieties attending his official duties, and he never
rallied from the premature decay of his powers which
resulted.

HAVANIs.TAII.—A letter from a business firm at
Havannah, dated the 4th inst., received by our
Southampton correspondent, says :—" Wo have to inform
you that no cigars will go forward this month. The
Spanish Government refuses to despatch the West India
mail steamer duo on the 6th inst., with a clean bill of
health, owing to the cholera prevailing in our city, in
consequence of which the company's agent here decided
upon not taking any cargo at all. This arrangement
has caused much vexation, as all the goods ready for
the January boat have to by stored until next month,
and, being paid for, will make shippers lose the inte-
rest out of their pockets. Therefore the cigars which
ought to have goue forward will not be sent till next
mouth."

lion. G. A. Tulin, Es-Consul General of Sweden and
Norway, and of Prusaia, in C/a.Da., writes Dec. 16, 1865, to
Him. Amos Perry, United States Consul-General, Tunis:—
'` Dear Sir,—Accept my thanks for this third supply of
Davis' Pain Killer. It has often relievcd me of serious in-
disposition, and I would not, on any account, be without it,
both for myself and my family. 1 have recommended it to
my late colleagues and friends in Tunis and Genoa, and at
my request ono of the largest druggists in this city has
sent an order to Now York to meet the demand for it hero."
—Beware of fraudulent imitations. None genuine without
Perry Davis and Son's trade mark, PAIN KILI4ER, on the
Government stamp. Sold by all chemists. Principal depot,
17,.Sougaatupton-row, Liolborn C.)—(A-DYT)

CIAIMPONDBNOE PROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY, Jan. 20.

There seems to be no doubt that Austria and Prussia
are becoming more friendly. Austria has no present cause
for quarrel with the North German Confederation, and
the best educated part of the subjects of the Kaiser, being
Germans, prefer German alliances. Moreover, Prussia, it
is said, is waiting for Baden to demand admission to the
Confederation, and then,with Austria's consent, she will be
ready to throw aside the Treaty of Prague without asking
the opinion of France. Whether Austria would give her
consent to Prussia to cross the Maine is not clear. There
are Frenchmen who say that the Maine will be Prussia's
Rubicon.

Meanwhile, M. Bismarck is trying to ;ender appeara,nces
at least agreeable to France. The official press at Berlin
is writing in a strain to suggest that Prussia has given up
an idea of a Russian alliance and has thrown in her lot
with France, Austria, and Italy on the Eastern question.
The only drawback to this good unclerst:inding which the
official press pretend exists between the two Powers is,
that it is supported by a million bayonets on each side.
The Liberte has just announced that the Minister of
War has addressed an important circular to the heads of
the army corps. It is to the effect that armed force should
never be brought to the assistance of the police until an
order has been received, written and signed by an officer of
the peace. This document is to be kept in the barracks of
the corps as a justification, if necessary, of the action of
the military. With reference to the action of the police,
there have been many complaints of excess of zeal leading
to great rudeness in the execution of arrests. On this
point the Advocate-General Genreau has just given
great satisfaction by a judgment in the Imperial Court.
He there decided that the agent of police is not protected
by the responsibility of his chief in such a way as to allow
him to use violence ; and that " it is permitted and easy to
obtain justice against excesses committed even inthe act of
arrest."

Count Goltz is said to have completely recovered from
the effects of the painful operation he had to undergo.
I learn by letters from Madrid that the reports of
an alliance between France and Spain, offensive and de-
fensive (with respect to the affairs of Italy), gain in con-
sistency. Hence the soreness on this point of the Italian
journals.
M. P. Joncieres, a writer generally in Governmental
journals, has published a brochure, in which he proposes
two amendments in the press law. One is to suppress the
obligation for appending the signatures of the writer to
every article, and the other is to bring press offences under
the jurisdiction of juries.
Distressing accounts continue to be received from
Algeria. A letter from Muscara states that from 25 to
30 Arabs are found dead from want in the streets and
about the mosques day after day. Animals are perishing
as well as men, and it is even more difficult to relieve them.
When the famine is over the loss of draught animals will
be felt by agriculturists with great severity.
January 1868 has been so far a sad time in Paris. Anna
so much real poverty our fetes seem to hang fire, our
parties lack festivity. There could be no more convincing
proof of the dullness of the times than this—the theatres
do not pay. This in January is a fact almost without pre•
cedent. The literary world is as dull as the commercial.
Sardou, Dumas fils, Barrire are out of the way, or work-
ing in quiet. Ponson du Terrail is drawing out the " Miseres
de Londres " for the Petite Presse, in the interests of
Fenianism ; but the whole thing is such a complete mis-
representation of everything English as to be simply
despicable. Edmond About is gone to Egypt, at the
request of the Viceroy, on some mission connected with
agriculture. His impressions of Egypt will no doubt &mg
matter for an interesting volume. On his return he is tc
write as art-critic for the Revue des Deux-Mondes. There
is room enough for our young men of letters, but where
are they ?
Mathieu's Almanac has made a lucky weather predic.-
tlon—" Squalls are to be looked for on the 19th." Whether
looked for or not, they came. Chimney-stacks, flag-staffs,
and window shutters suffered from the gusts which
blew the greater part of the day. The disturbance seemg
to have prevailed over Great Britain, Norway, and Russia,
as well as France, while from Italy and Spain fine weather
is reported. According to the Bulletin de l'Obserratoire,
the centre of the storm was in the north-west of Ireland,
France and the Low Countries being in the outer circle.
In a former letter I referred to the international bridge
which is, some of our sanguine engineers believe, one day
to unite Calais and Dover. The plan of construction
avoids the necessity of driving piles, the veritable founda-
tions of the bridge being the two starting points. Ido not
profess to understand or explain it, but those who do,
pretend that in the construction of all large bridges and
viaducts it will effect a considerable saving of time and
money. The French company which has taken this mode
of bridge-making in hand has already, it is said, been charged
with the construction of several bridges in France. But it
seems the first experiment on a large scale is to be made
in England. It is stated that English agents are in Paris
to treat with the company for the erection of a grand
bridge 3,700 metres in length—the equivalent of 4,042
yards English —at a cost of 21,000,000 sterling. From
these dimensions I suspect that the bridge across the
Humber is intended.
One of the events of the day is the sale of Khalil Bey's
pictures, one of the finest collections in Paris. The amount
realised in three days was over £25,000, but there was an
evident depreciation,through the dullness of the times and
the general want of money of which everybody is com-
plaining.

THE SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

-----~--

The Cape Argus furnishes the following particulars of
the successful search after the traces of this distinguished
explorer :—" The expedition left Simon's Town in the
middle of July, and in Dr. Kirk's account of the circum-
stances connected with the reported death of Dr. Living.
stone it was said that the latter, having crossed the north
end of Lake Nyassa, passed through villages named
Makarta, and subsequently Matarka, Maponda, Marenga,
and Maksowa. The searching party, having reached Lake
Nyassa, were driven by a gale into a small bay, where
they found a native, who reported to them that a white
man, about eight or ten months previously, had been
there. Captain Faulkner and the rest of the expedition
feared at first that the news was too good to be true, and
it was resolved to endeavour to reach a point higher up,
at which there was an Arab crossing-place, near Mont
Mombo, a point about twenty miles from the spot at
which the boat was anchored. In carrying this intention
into effect they fell in with a large party of native fisher-
men, and on communicating with them received a similar
account to that which had been previously given them.
These people described, the dress and appearance. of' the
`white man,' which tallied pretty closely with those of
Dr. Livingstone. These men, having been shewn some
surveying instruments, appeared to recognise and to
understand the use of them. One of them produced a
spoon, and a second a knife, which they had received as
presents from Dr. Livingstone. As a further test Captain
Faulkner exhibited a case of photographs, and, without any
hesitation, that of Dr. Livingstone was recognised as the
picture of the white man. This gave the searching party
increased confidence, and they proceeded on to the crossing
place. On arriving there the same story was repeated,
with the addition that the white man had endeavoured to
cross the lake, but fir ding all the boats were on the oppo•
site side, he went towards the south, and passed through
the villages already named. The searching party then
sailed across the lake, but, obtaining no information,
made for the south. They shortly afterwards came across
a large village, and here the same story was repeated. ;it
is known that Marenga, the chief of the village of that
name, was extremely civil to Livingstone, and SO-
lie bra&-
found to be to those in search of him. It appears he 14
ferried Dr. Livingstone across a lake forming an indentaeti
tion in the banks of Nyassa, which he might have circledon
foot at the cost of a detour. Marenga gave the searching
party every information in his possession, and presented
them with a very acceptable supply of fresh provisions. It
will be remembered that it was at this point that the
Johanna men abandoned Livingstone. While Livingstone
went across the marsh, the natives skirted the margin, and
on returning to the village reported they were being led
into a hostile country, and at once made their way for the
seaboard. The last place named by Dr. Kirk, Maksowa,
was two days' journey from Marengo.. The chief of this
village had been driven away, hut a number of his men
were collected who had been employed to convey. the
baggage of Dr. Livingstone twenty miles further in a
north-westerly direction. Both Captain Faulkner and
Mr. Young regarded the information as conclusive, but,
with a view of discovering the position of Maponda's settle-
ment they proceeded on a little further. The village was
found about a mile from the mouth of the Shire.
Maponda was affray from the village on a trading expedi-
tion, but his mother, Who was at home, informed the party
that Dr. Livingstone had passed through there, and that
some of his party subsequently returned. The mother
of the chief further produced a Prayer-book containing the
name of one of the doctor's followers, who had been left
behind on account of lameness. The Johanna men had
represented this boy, who was named Waikatanee, as
having deserted. It appears that at this time the boy was
absent with the chief, so that the exploring party had no
opportunity of a personal interview with him. The
evidence which had been obtained at so many different
points, and from such a number of witnesses, satisfied Mr.
Young that the object they had in view had been obtained,
and, acting upon the instructions issued to them, they
resolved to return. There appeared not the slightest
reason to doubt the substantial correctness of the informa-
tion they had obtained, that Livingstone had passed safely
through the most dangerous portion of his journey, and
had made good his advance into the interior, with an appa-
rent intention of descending the Nile into Egypt. 1 hey
accordingly descended the Shire, and in due time met
with the Petrel, and re.urned to Shnon's Town. Mr.
Young and Captain Faulkner return to England by this
day's steamer, and we are certain will there meet with a
reception which the nature of their report and their own
enterprise and courage entitle them to.'

LITERATURE.

The TVhite Rose. By G. J. Whyte Melville. Three
Vols. Chapman and Hall.

" The White Rose" we take to be the supreme
flower of its author's imagination. It is, to our
thinking, among all his fictions, his very happiest
achievement. Like Lever's, his style has improved
by practice instead of having, as happens with re-
gard to so many other writers, deteriorated through
carelessness. The easy swing of his manner, the
dash, verve, vivacity, sparkle, and gay animal
spirits with which be has always hitherto written,
have in no way " gone off "—will be found here
just as exhilarating, as animated, and as effer-
vescent in this the latest outpouring of his
fancy as in " Cerise," or in "Digby Grand,"
as in the " Gladiator," or as in " Brookes"—not
Brocks of Sheffield," but—" Brookes of Bridle-
mere." To the readers of The Fortnightly, since that
able monthly passed under the editorship of Mr.
John Morley, on the retirement from the edito-
ial chair of its original projector, Mr. George
decry Lewes —" The White Rose" has long been
familiar, and that, too, we can certainly say,
from our own experience, very delightfully. The
fluctuating fortunes of its principal characters w'
hiave followed with an eager interest, such as we
might rather have accorded to actual living and
breathing contemporaries. For, the characters--
especially the principal characters—here grouped
together in this imaginary narrative of " The
White Rose," are no mere puppets, tricked out in
so many fancy dresses, rouged, and powdered, and
fitted up with wires, and pulleys, and movable
joints, and an ingenious complication of internal
clockwork machinery. They are to us as
so many people of " our own flesh and
blood"—to use the phrase adopted by Mr. Glad-
stone—people in whose existence we fully believe,
old whom we seem to have often met face to face,
and with whom, in society, we are at any moment
iiable to renew our personal acquaintance. There
ire, to begin with, the hero and heroine of the tale
—the " White Rose" and her most faithful but (for
long) most unfortunate lover. Norah Welby--
dterwards Norah Vandeleur afterwards Norah
Ainslie. The hero of the book being Gerard
Ainslie student, soldier, gambler, gold-digger,
dramatist, and, to crown all, towards the close of
the work, a handsome, clever, wealthy man of
fashion, homme d'esprit, and accomplished gentle-
man. Together with these two—Norah and Gerard
—Major Whyte Melville brings us into intimate
personal acquaintance, as it were, with—how many
other admirably well delineated characters Fore-
most among these as a creation drawn from the expe-
riences of life--Mr. Vandeleur of Oakover: A
thoroughly heartless man, we should say—a man
of a hideously pitiless selfishness-4 blasé, case-har-
dened, worn, sated, sin-grained, oynical, fasti-
dious :voluptuary. The only inconsistency in his
delineation, as it appears to us, is that observable
'in the incongruous manner of his revolting and
melo-dramatic death. If he had expired to slow
music, and in a glare of blue-fire, he could hardly
have breathed his last under (for him) unlikelier
circumstances. Barring this, however, the whole
portraiture is inimitable : Mr. Vandeleur being
on the whole sui generis—having no double
that we can recal to mind in the whole
range of imaginative literature. Not by any
means, in the same way, can we speak, as of a perfect
original, of Dolly Egremont—the root idea of the
fun of whose ridiculously distorted poetical quota-
tions one can't help tracing back to perhaps the de-
lightfullest comic character ever drawn by Dickens
—that incomparable droll Dick S w iveller. Ludicrous
though many of the misapplied verses. of Dolly
Egremont undoubtedly are—not one amongst
them approaches such a preposterous echo from
one of the poets as Dick Swiveller's—" I never
nursed a dear gazelle to glad me with its fond
black eye, but when it came to know me
well and love me, it was sure to marry a market
gardener !" Dolly is droll nevertheless, and always
good humoured. It is a satisfaction to know of a
good fellow like Egrernont that he is married before
we have done with him, to so congenial a mate for the
manager of the Accordion as Fanny Tregunter,
whom, however, we regret to have the last sight of
when she is arrayed, not in pink—even though her
dress be bridal white. As for " the Dandy," or
"Dandy Burton"—Granville Barton, so called
because of his being a bit of a swell—only a bit of
one, not the entire animal, bat merely a Dandy—
we never take kindly to him from the beginning o f
the story down to the very end of it. On the con-
trary, he is distasteful to the reader—being, as he
Is, an insufferable coxcomb—empty-headed and
hollow-hearted, and be hanged to him Two other
notable characters in the tale have yet to be par-
ticularised—both admirably well drawn—Fanny
Draper, daughter of Old Grits, the miller, and her
evil genius for a time, the Count Tourbillon. The
latter is a masterly delineation of a certain well-
known genus of comely, conscience-less, life-enjoy-
ing Frenchmen. Altogether the story, as it is here
told in these three volumes of " The White Rose,"
which has been unfolding, leaf by leaf, as a
serial or monthly while in the pages of The Fort-
nightly, breathes fragrantly and refreshingly enough
of the mother-wit of
.one of the raciest, and one of
the Most vivacious of the story-tellers of our time—
Whyte Melville—author, already, of a whole library
of bold and vigorous and thoroughly original contri-
butions to the imaginative literature of nowadays.

&Int ''''cr-teirtsTar.

HER, MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 20.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
walked in the grounds this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out.