The Sun. — 1864-05-19 (London, England)

THE ORDEAL. Rather sooner than was anticipated Lord Ennavant arrived, and came into the room where we were working together. He threw himself into an arm, chair, and at once desired the worst and the best to be told him. " It's like drawing a tooth," said he, " to come into this horrid room and this chair. I know it will be all right by the time I get out of it, but you make me go through torments before that happy moment arrives. So now for it. Do your worst, and end by giving me command of the money."  " Just as I had arranged with the banker, to give you credit for necessary expenses for the next three months--" " That can't be helped. It makes not the slightest difference to this sum, This is a wholly unnecessary expense."  " With a little prudence, and the great storm that swept down your Gloucestershire timber, you might have got on till rent day, and then paid the banker with the rents, neglected tte butcher, and gone on again." "Well, I'm glad you think £5,000 is an equivalent for for only a little prudence. So I have committed no great eAcess after all. It ought to be all the easier for you to supply me." " It is, however, not easy at all," said Mr. Points, gloomily. "But I have met with one expedient, the success of which I shall know in the course of the evening, and would have sent you word--" "If I had not been in such a devil of a hurry? But I want to be clear of the thoughts; for although I never' make myselt miserable except in this accursed room, there is always the sense that I shall have to go through it till it is done. So what is it ? Lord Ennavant occasionally learns some hometruths from the plain-spoken John Greswold, and is happy to befriend him, when he can do so without personal inconvenience. Mrs. Winspear is a capitally drawn character—while Miss Nation, the fast fine lady, is assuredly a caricature. Her con• versation reminds us of another would-be fine lady—Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Skeggs. We take leave of John Greswold with a pleasant reminiscence of our passing intercourse, but with regret to leave him with his fate and fortune a mystery and his history " nowhere."  A NEW PARK FOR PARIS is being opened at the Buttes St. Chaumont.  Advices from Tours state that the Bishop of Evreux has got much worse, and is now dangerously ill. The Archbishop of Tours, at whose house he has been stopping, administered the last sacraments to him the night before last, and prayers have been offered up in all the churches.  The King of Greece has invited the represen.. tatives of France, England, and Russia to accompany him in his excursion to the lonian Isles. The Official Gazette of Turin publishes a Royal decree suppressing the spscial administration of the sequestrated estates of the ex-Duke of Modena, and transfers it to the agents cf the. State domains.  Tire Napoleonien of Rodez states that M. Garobuau, Cure of Cassagnes Begoubes (Aveyron) has been murdered. The authorities of Rodez went to the scene of the crime to institute an inquiry, the details of which are not yet given.  STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH THE ISLE OF OF Wu:am—The Lady of the Lake, a steamer fitted up like the American river steamers, has commenced running between Cowes and Southampton. There are now no fewer than five steam packet communications between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, viz., between the island and Littlehampton, Portsmouth, Stokos Bay, Southampton, and Lymington.