The Sun. — 1865-10-09 (London, England)

COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (Evening). Money easy. Gold, 1431. Exchange on London, 1571 ; do. on Paris, 3.584. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 94k. Five-Twenty United Statee'Bonds, 108 k. NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (Evening). The South Carolina State Convention has resolved to send a deputation to Washington to ask the clemency of the Executive for Messrs. Davis and Stephens. Mr. Trenholrae. -MagraMif • Gev'enigt SOutlr Carolina,-has-been directed to organise the militia companies. They will act under the orders of the Federal commanders. Colonel Thomas reports that he fears a conflict between the freedmen and the whites will ensue if the organisation of the Mississippi militia is carried out.  A gang of forty guerillas are committing murder and robbery in the neighbourhood of Springfield, in Tennessee. Colonel Palmer and General Brisbin have been indicted in Kentucky for abducting slaves, and interfering with the slave law. A large Fenian meeting has been held in New York, at which speeches were made declaring that an Irish Republican loan will shortly be announced. The Alabama Convention hasunanimously passed an ordinance annulling the Secession Ordinance, and has also decided that the white population shall alone form their representation. The Courrier des Etats Unis states that an agent of Juarez is actively engaged with a New York banking firm in endeavouring to negotiate a loan. Advices from Brownsville to the Bth state that numerous Republican bands are reported to be still threatening Matamoras. The Cuba and Etna have arrived out.  Oswald Hastings; or, the Adventures of a Queen's Aide-de- Camp . By Captain W. W. Knollys, 93d Sutherland Highlanders. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. Captain Knollys has wisely chosen for the theme of his first novel a subject with which he is perfectly familiar. The details of army life, the peculiarities of different commanders, the gossip of the mess-room, and the various trials of different degree that beset the upward path of the friendless but ambitious soldier, are here portrayed with a wonderful fidelity, which imparts to the work, as a military novel, a particular and unusual interest and importance. So much we are glad to be able to say of the first three-volume work of a young author. Regarding " Oswald Hastings " as a novel, however, it lacks one of the most important qualifications of a good story, concentrated interest. The organ of constructiveness is all important to the novel-writer. Other qualities may delight the reader for a time, as in the instance of Thackeray, the author of one famous " novel without a hero," and of so many others without any organised plot or story. It mattered little to his readers, however, like the charming, lady of whom it was said " she gossiped whenever she pleased, and pleased whenever she gossiped." The delightful pen of Mr. Roundabout could always fascinate our attention But the example is not a safe one for ordinary writers. Every reader is not obliged (like the critic) to follow a story to the end if no particular interest or curiosity be excited. " Oswald Hastings," we must confess after his earlierdifficulties in the first volume, creates little anxiety in our minds as to his ultimate fortunes. His early love for Ellen Kirkhan does not exercise a very enduring influence on his affections. Even his partial biographer is obliged to apologise for his fickle fancies. W e consider he is very rightly served by the faithless Euphemia, whose marriage, by the way, bears a striking similarity to a recent run-away match in high life. We will not reveal any further the incidents of the tale, slight as they are, but content ourselves with some extraets that may evidence Capt. Knollys's graphic power in describing scenes of gallantry and adventure. Here, for example, is—