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6 THE MORNING POST, MONDAY, MAY 13, ia as ret too Vivid to Hermit nf nnr nhmU.finir in ihm tense feeling, such delicate insiglit, mm sue marks the merest trifles which overfill the cup of suffering and double its bitterness. Beatrice terest and "pathos of this fine work. CoDmtrjij filial, fraternal, and maternal love, find their fondest, purest, deepest utterances, in the words of one to whom few modes of the lyre" are im. familiar. There is such inteuse pathos in the devotion of the girl-mother to the wailing, delicate baby, the epileptic "little Frank," that it out for a time from the reader's mind the sense of her graver woe, while the episode of the child's death, and the keeu desolateness of the pang with which she recognises that other1, even those who love her perfectly, rejoice in the event which the imreciation of -slD' tue tonuo u.iove or LOST AND SAVED.

Several years have elapsed since the publication of Mrs. Norton's novel, Stuart of Duuleatb," raised her reputation ar, a prose writer to the level of that which had before attained as a poet. She oroved her possession of the far-reaclnng gift of genius, hereditary in ner uioou nv mm and one gifted with masculine grasp of mind, in aid of the feminine insight, could possibly write, as no other woman has written. Stuart of Dunleath was a work of striking interest and power of construction indeed, but in which plot and incident were subservient to individuality of character and to sentiment. It is the fashion of the day to hold seutiment cheap, to treat it with contemptuous tolerance, to regard it as insignificant trash easily put together, the last resource of the lazy, or the first mistaken impulse of the unpractised writer of fiction.

But the most determined admirer of the realistic school of novels, the most borne imagination, the most pulseless, soulless, world-spoiled believer in the magic circle of fashion aud the of emotion, could not have resisted the deep and passionate appeal of such a sentimental" novel aa "Stuart of Dunleath." Of that book, the earlier product of a genius ever nurtured on tbe highest, purest, rarest intellectual food, the critic of its day might have said with Talfourd of the work of another favoured child of the muses, A tale of sentiment awakens all these pulses of sympathy with our kind, of whose beatings we had become almost unconscious. It does houotir to humanity by stripping off its disguises. Its magic is not like that by which Arabian enchanters raised up glittering spires, domes, and palaces, by a few cabalistic words but resembles their power to disclose veins of precious ore where all seemed sterile and blasted. It gently puts aside the brambles which overcast the stream of life, and layd it open to the reflections of those delicate clouds which lie above it in the heavens. It shows to us the soft undercourses of feeling, which neither time nor circumstances can wholly stop and the depth of affection in the soul, which nothiug but sentiment itself can fathom." "Lost and Saved" is a work of far different calibre.

Iu its pages the reader will find the rare poetic charm, the graceful and uuexaggerated pathos, the uuerring good taste, and the true womanly, fanciful tenderness which made him linger over the pages of "Stuart of Dunleath." He will find many a passage to remind him of the keen, artistic love of nature, the abiding sense of the mystic presence of the beautiful which so interpenetrated the pages of that sad but satisfying history, that even the lines strung together by the young When she came o'er the distant hills. And heard a wee bird sing" have a loftiness in their syuiplicity like the hymn of a priestes3 of nature. But beyond all these things there are iu Lost and Saved" evidences of strong and tenacious purpose, and proofs of matured and consummate ability, which place it in a far different category. It is not as the poet, as the imaginative, sensitive, artist-souled woman that Mrs. Nortou appeals to the reader in this remarkable work of fiction of fiction awfully true, of imagination terrrihly real.

She briugj the powers of her mind to the enforcemeut aud the illustration of home truths which ought to be startling, as they are undeniable, which society does not deny and will not redress, but which are dragged by a dauntless heart aud a powerful hand from behind the rose-coloured veil of expediency into the garish, ghastly light of truth. It never can be au easy task for any writer to tell the truth and shame the devil. How doubly difficult when tbe "truth" to be told ia the rottenness which lies at the core of the fair-seeming system of fashionable life, aud the "devil" to be shamed is personated by the curled darlings of society the "good matches for whom mothers angle, and daughters dress, flirt, dance, and occasionally die. The task of a philosopher of the salom Lj not an easy or a pleasant one. It is less troublesome and more agreeable to take surface for solidity, aud to believe, or at any rate to say, that all that glhters is gold thereal, genuinearticle, with "the hall" mark.

Also, it is not very difficult to enact the Diogenes of the drawing-room, to set one's mask to the suer perpetual, so that no one shall be able to determine whether the indignation expressed towards counterfeit? may not include realities, and, by an affected 'jor'tunmnie, esteudingthesneer, thecen.sure, and the pretended pity to Diogenes himself, give a faux air of candour very apt to deceive the shallow to the whole. It is in no such spirit as this that Mrs. Norton performs a task which, despite the satisfying consciousness of artistic success, cannot have beet: devoid of pain. Her work does not bear the impress of a Mepbistophelutn spirit, weary, contemptuous, sardonic, pitiless but, with the calm, sad front of an accusing angel, she stands looking on these things with eyes prone to grief and compassion, and prophetic of judgment. The attitude of "society" towards womeu whom men have wronged, deceived, and cast upon it3 mercies, is one of those dubious matters which rested for a loug time under the powerful protection of the conspiracy of silence.

Ihat shelter has not been no eflicactou3 of late. A few bold spirits have raised indignant protest against the merciless taboo" enacted against the victims in such cases, aud the immunity, if not the eclat, the free pardon, if not the reward of a lionising, whispering, "fie-fie" sort of fashiouable notoriety enjoyed by the workers of such shame, ruin, and desolation. It is im pro- bable, it is nearly hopeless, that an alteration in such a base aud cruel order of thing3 should come to pass, until "society" shall be in its turn out tmHA nrl.k of fashion, and the world which is to set this oue right" shall have inaugurated its sinless and sorrowless sway. But there 13 none the ies3 honour to those who "cry aloud, and nun not." who treat, the Wrrlww An1.itrii I i society as heartless sophistries, and not as sacred wruLiis, wuo Li-anaiaie tue cam oi wnaoess, ana the folly of youth," and youna men will youna men," with their honest English names, and preach this doctrine these thing3 are the works of the devil, their doers are his children, aud their reward is in his dwelling. Shallow, would-be witty commentators on the crying evils of social abuses of this nature are wont to think they exhaust the matter by quoting the old story of the lion and the painter, and applying it to men, and women, and the laws of society which affect them.

Men make the laws, and of course to their own advan- tage," is the ready argument or judgment of such minds. But this is true only to a certain and not very great extent women have uo such irresponsibility to plead, no such secondary, powerless part to play. Mrs. Norton recognises, urges, insists upon this truth she assigns no undue part in the sinful and sorrowful story which she tells to its hero, but paints with a hand as unsparing as it is powerful tne accessories of hoartlessness, worldli ness, mere scheming vanity, and cold selfishness wuicu surrouna ine principal ngure tne Deautiiul, gifted, flattered, conscienceless, desperately wicked Montague Treherne. In everything which the world owes to Mrs.

Norton's pen the qualities of energy, ot intense and burning earnestness, of that iaiii-j vi. imijciwuciiiuu wuiuu jus tue souioi arc, toe crown oi aramatic ana poetical perfection, are prominently eminent. The creations of her fancy are "informed with her presence," aud they are as various as they are true. In the present instance this great and splendid faculty and proof of genius is triumphantly evident. In the wide range of human character and female attributes there are no greater points of contrast possible than Beatrice Brooke and Milly Nesdale, The author brings them in actual contrast before the tb Wntifnl hrtramri hinB the power oi irue, uuu, sww the hearts and minds of her fellows she wrote of tha rmwfi.l life of women as only a womau, I reader on onre hnfc r.

i wnaa of tha difference, the supreme opposition of these two women, is never lost, is never permitted to flag nor is there a shade less reality in the one than in r.h ntW Thwwii nr. 0.lo, I I 1 1 HA MARKET THE A TRE. Tha announcement of a new and original comedy in three acts," said to be by a granddaughter of the great Sheridan, could not fail to excite considerable interest in the theatrical world- It was no matter of surprise therefore that this theatre was filled to overflowing on Saturday evening, when a production bearing tho above denomination, and under the'title of Finesse, or Spy and was played for the first time with all the appliances that the establishment wa3 capable of affording. Although the name of Lady Gifford (better known to the literary world a3 Lady Dufferin) wru not announced in the bills, there were few play-goera present who were not fully aware that tbe authorship of tho new piece wai attributable to her and it may fairly be suggested that the knowledge of this) fact was disadvantageous to the author rather than otherwise, seeing that publicexpectation was naturally raised to tbe highest point to ascertain whether the mant'e of the illustrious man who wrote the School for Scandal" had, ia any degree, fallen upon hia accomplished descendant. That Lady Gifford passed through this somewhat trying ordeal with signal success must at ouce be admitted; but the causes which led to that result must be sought, not ia that brilliancy of dialogue, nor in that skilful development of plot which distinguished the comedies of Sheridan, but rather ia a dexterous admixture of sceues aud characters having uo immediate connecting link, but presenting certain phases of novelty and many, though disjointed, features of dramatic interest.

The impression which forced itself upon the mind of the spectator, before the comedy was half played out was, that, unlike her illustrious progenitor, the author had not chosen any all-pervading idea, to develop which each succeeding incident should be employed, aud around which the eutire interest should be concentrate! but she would seem to have seised the opportunity of bri aging together a variety of scenes and eveuts such as might happen as the world goes, though not in the form of a connected and well-digested drama. Iu short, the prominent attributes of this piece ha-o many striking features of peculiarity, to which, in a great measure, its may be properly ascribed. Tho very foundation of the play is, scarcely suggestive of what is generally understood as1 "comedy," and asj to the plot, the amusing points it presents are when it descends to broad farce while, at the same time, the characters do not reflect, either in the language they speak, or in the actions they portray, any condition of "life or manners. ls it quite that any particular moral was sought to be worked out, or that the absence of dramatic unitv wxs intended to be supplied by sensational effects. The piece is almost entirely wanting" ia any interest which le-longs to the gentler sex, and tha paramount passion of love is introduced in so subordinate a degree that the youthful heroine who is the object of it is nothing more tlwn what is technically called a "walking lady," aud her fortunes do not excite even the most ordinary curiosity.

With all these deficiencies the comedy, as already stated, was decidedly successful, and may almost be said to 'mark a new era in dramatic annals, since the result proves that, however wanting ia connection and congruity mav be the constituent parts of a play, there is small chance of it; being unfavourably received provided it depart, in some measure, from conventional rules, and prevent the audience from seeing too far into its designs and complications. If a candidate for Government honours were called upon, when undergoing the tortures of a competitive examination, to unravel the so-called "plot" of this piece, his prospect of success would be by no means enviable, and it is doubtful whether any of the actors engaged in the sceae could entirely free him from the difficulty. The exigencies of dramatic criticism, however, scarcely render it necessary that this task should be scrupulously fulfilled at any time and in the present bataace more ample justice will be doae to the author by leaving her story to be inferred, if not clearly understood, from a few characters and incidents which may be thus briefly sketched. The scene is laid ia Messina in the year 1311, and the dramatis personal consist of Baron Freitenhorasn (Mr. Chippendale), a philosophic enthusiast, whose eutire thoughts are devoted to the exposition of a great chemical has made, and which he describes a.s aa c'u-ir v-Uve Dr.

Bertrand (Mr. Alfred Wignn), a French refugee who has been driven from his country bv the alleged tyranny of Bonaparte St. Clair, alias Sullivan, and Count Filippi (Mr. Braid and Mr. Walter Gordon), U-o political spies; Captain Mortimer (Mr.

Howe), a manly and outspeaking officer mthe British navy; Mr. JohuPoppletou (Mr. Buckstoue), an eccentric gentleman, who. for some reason not clearly explained, appears throughout diauised as a British tar Jules d'Artiguy (Mr. W.

Fraser) a young sailor, who is supposed to have been shot wlii a mere lad by order of Bonaparte; the Baroness Freitcuhorsea (Mrs. Wilkins), a inanreuvriug lady who is an amusing contrast to her dreamy husband Laura Brandon (Miss LouLsa Angel), a young damsel with whom the gallant captain aforesaid is passionately in love, and Mrs. Bobbin (Mrs. Alfred Wigan), aa wait-ing-m ud, whose chief occupation is to talk bad gramm ir, and inveigh strenuously against furreners," The principal personage around whom these characters revolve is Dr. Bertraud, who.

in order to be reveuged upon his pov eiful enemy, Napoleon, puts.hiniself ia opposition to the machinations of certain conspirators aad spies, em ployed ror political purposes at Medina during the period of the Sicilian i evolution. To effect his object, the doctor, eulists tho services of a "counterspy," and in such a manner that the duty he is called upon to discharge can only be executed at the risk of his life. The youcg man so employed turns out afterwards to be the doctor's own son, Jules, whom he supposes to be dead, but who fulfis his mission successfully, though Bertraud is impressed with the lelief that be bis fallen a sacrifice to his courage. The poordoctor, strickeu with grief at the thought of his son's fate, at length receives a communication from him to the effect that he ia still alive (his escape having, .13 far as could be uuder-stood, been effected by means of a contrivance which secured his beiug removed as a "mummy," enclosed in a case of elaborate workmanship, and, when the time arri ves for their meeting the father clasps in his.ums the pseudotar, Mr. Poppletou, who falls ia his way at the critical moment.

This contretemps, of course, creates a diversion, which, however, soon assumes a more serious form when the doctor i embraced by his veritable sou. Thus far sufficient will be seen to account for the title of the play aad to this the other characters above enumerated are not made to coutn bute save in the very smallest degree. The English sea-capta in has a love affair ou hand with the interesting and gentle Laura Brandon, whose prospects are directly opposed by her auat and giardiaa, the Baroness Freitenhorsen the Barouess herself is iu a state of profound mental disorder owing to her husband's extravagant adheronce to his monomania, and the Baron is thrown into the most humorous and perplexing predicament with Master Poppleton, whom he believes to have been hanged for murder and to have been brought to life by means of his elixir vita. The scenes between these two last mentioned characters, though partaking in the highest degree of the elements of farce, are the most mirth-provoking in the piece aud, coming as they do towards the close of the performance, serve to redeem the play from any tedium which might otherwise be said to belong to it. The acting of Mr.

Chippendale and Mr. Buckstonein this episode of the drama the former as the sanguine and half demented philosopher, xnd the latter as the uproarious and by no means scrupulous Jack tar, who hitches up his "continuations" in the most approved stage fashion was admirable not only in the contrasts it displayed, but in the manner in which these exc-llent artists had respectively seized upon all the salient meanings of the author. It is hardly uecessary to dwell upon individual merits as shown by the performers, considering that every part was filled with artistic energy and skill, and with a truthful appreciation of every point that was calculated to promote an effective result. A word, however, must be bestowed upon Mr. Wigan and Mrs.

WLlkins, both of whom played as if they felt that the entire responsibility of the rested with them. Dr. Bertraud being a grief -stricken French refugee, who speaks broken English, and whose vital energy is kept iu play by bis love for his soa and his determination to be revenged upon his oppressors, it may readily be imagined that Mr. Wigan was supplied with full opportunity of displaying those peculiar qualities for which he is specially renowned and it is difficult to say whether he was most effective in the calm moments of subdued sensibility or in those passages which required a more than usual demand upon his physical resources. Mrs.

Wilkins was the representative of a character in which extravagant dignity and imaginary conjugal neglect are so prominently conveyed that it will at once be seen how large a share of merriment she created, and how much she contributed to the general success. The comedy was put upon the stage with every care and attention to the requirements of scenery and diesses, and the applause was loud and encouraging th. jughout. An enthusiastic call was made for the leading artists at the fall of the curtain, and Mr. Buckstooe came forward and announced that Finesse would be in foil operation every evening till further notice." Cries of "author! author!" were then vociferated, when Mr.

Wigan reappeared, and expressed hia regret that the authoress was cot in the house to testify to the audience the gratification she must feel at the warm reception accorded to her play. Thereupon the actor's ear swere greeted with a vigorous exclamation of name name but he did, not heed the demand, and retired in respectful silence. THE SOURCE OF THE hILE. Mr. Consul Petherick, Vice-Consul at Batonm (who was reported to be dead by drowning in crossing one of the rivers in Abyssinnia) reached Goodokoro, on the White Nile, from the west ou the 23d February, where he joined Captains Speke aud Grant.

Captain Speke.aBaounccis that tho great lake Victoria Nyanza is unquestionably the main source of the Nile, and preface a letter to Sit Roderick MurchijQn with the words, I said I would do it, and I have done it." The annual ball of the London Rilie Brigade will be held at WillLs's Rooms on Friday, the 5th of June, under the patronage of his Royal Highness tho Duke of Cambridge, H.G., honorary cobnelof tho regiment. resumption oi transportation to any part of Australia without i prempt expression of our firm determination to offer rrt ia ur power to so terrible a calamity. That this country ia now only beginning to reap the advantage of the vast expenditure she baa incurred, and the stringent laws ahe baa passed to arrest tho career of these criminals, and it would be dis-h carte ufcg beyond endurance were ahe again forced to combat the tame dangers from which she has been rescued at such great coat, a condition imposed upon her by her proximity to those settlement where British criminals had been sent. That this house, by its generous and successful efforts in tbe cause of Australian exploration, having opened up a vast territory for tho highest purposes of civilisation, can scarcely conceive that your Majesty's government would render, by tbe establishment of penal settlements, these glorious discovarias tbe means of inflicting upon a free peoplo a dec dly moral injury. That while the gold fields of this colony present Buch powerful attractions, it ia immaterial whether convicta bo landed in Victoria or on the next remote shore of this continent, aa no means, even honestly conceived and strictly carried out, can succeed in confining them within the limits of any settlement to which they may be deported.

Thus transportation to any portion of Australia, or to any of the adjoining ettlementa, would practically be transportation to Victoria, and would thus necessarily be injurious to the moral welfare of her people, increase their burdens, impede free immigration, provoke exceptional legislation, and tend to alienate tho affections of her inhabitants from the mother country. Wo therefore pray your Majesty will be graciously pleased to refuse your royal sanction to any proposal for the continuance or revival of transportation to any portion of your Majesty's Australian possessions. The advices from Adelaide extend to March 20. His excellency the governor has recently visited tho Echunga gold-fields, in company with Mr. the original discoverer of gold in Australia.

The latter will remain for some little time in the colony to examine the various localities in which gold is likely to be found. Parliament met on February 27, and Mr. Hawker had been re-elected Speaker. Both houses had adjourned till after Easter. Messrs.

Blyth, Ayres, and Clyde are at present in Melbourne, as representatives of South Australia at the intercolonial conference. Parliament, in addition to the 2,000. to which Mr. Stuart is entitled for having crossed the continent, has voted sums ranging from 5007. to lOOi.

to the members of his party. Major Blyth, commanding the detachment of tho 40th Regiment in Adelaide, has received orders to join head-quarters iu New Zealand. He will be relieved by Brevet-Major Bowdlcr. Tho total value of cereal exports from tbe beginning of tbe year to March 14 had been 171,715. 14s.

8d. The general exports to March 21 have valued 598,477., and the total imports 421,341. whilst the customs receipts for the eloven weeks ended March 14 havo been 28,070. 14s. and the land sales receipts from Jan.

1 to March 10, 23,000, NEW ZEALAND. Tbe yield of gold in Otago, says the Otaao Times of March 18, is fast approaching to that of Victoria, and probably in tho course of a year or two the younger gold country will bo tho larger producer. Judged by the comparison of the number of persons relatively employed, tbe Otago fields are many times more productive tliau those of Victoria. The gold is much more easily obtained, and without tbe enormous outlay for machinery which has characterised the Victorian gold workings during tho last fow years. The Lake gold fields arepr.bably tho richest that have ever been discovered.

During the thirteen weeks that they havo been opened they havo yielded over 107, 000 ounces, exclusive of amounts brought down by private hands, to a population averaging not more than 7,000 miners. The health of tho Governor is occasioning some little, anxiety, his Excelleucy having lately suffered considerably from severe indisposition and by last advices ho was still very uuwoll. PARLIAMENT ART DUMNGSS. HOUSE or COHilOS. SOTlCES OV MOTIONS AMD OP.DElt.H OF TUX DAY 20B THE PltKSti.NT WEEK.

THIS DAY, May 18. OLlDKUS TU3 Prison Mini iters Bill third rc uilng Supply commit tec rnl.uil Ecvefliie Bill aa aiu-iHcl. to in considered 'J'tiaaies linit'aiiMiK-nt (Nouli Side; liill -llitrd reading; Vacrinuu.on (Indau 1i BiU-titird reading offences (ioutli Africa Oil! i om-uiitt'-e New Zealand 'iouudari' Uill commute-- Drainage and Improvement of Land ji: eland) D.ll committee aud (Vroviiitdial Orders Hill committee Volunteer Dili committee Salmon Pislici ies (Scotland) Act Con inumce Dill committee Vice-Ailitiiralry Courts Kill second reading Ways and Means committee IVr Keiuoval 'No. Hill-committee: Admiral!) Court Ir.d.tinl emu mi tee Lenses aud Sales ot Settled instates Act Amendment Dili second reading Manijej ilegistrjtion hvi Kill committee. KOTICKti I IONS.

Mr. To aak the of Mia Poor Law Board if lie had received the report from the engineer aeut down into the cotton dutricU. Mr. ARD-UitQuriAUT To ih? loider-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has the Braztliau Minister demanded his passports, or any communication to uer Majesty's government to the effect that hehas instructions which may require him to suspend diplomatic relations between England aud Brazil: is-auy correspondence lending. Mr.

A. Mills To ask whether government have arrived at any decision as to the course to adopted with reference to the building and concentration of courts of justice. Sir S. NoltTaeoTIi To a.sii the Secretary to the Admiralty whether any communications have taken place between the Post-oflice and the Admiralty, or between any officers of Uic Post office and the Kii r.tiirJ of tha Admiralty, with ic-forene to the employment of Admiralty vessels for the mail service between Dover aud Calais, or Dover and (Ntend. Sir M.

I'KfO To ask the Secretary of State for the TJome De partmc-nt, if he can inform the house why the Corporation of the City of Loudon have not proceeded to construct the dead meat market in Sniithtieli for which au act waR obtained iu the year lStX). Mr. COWPER Courts of Justice In committee of the whole house, to move for leave to bring in a bill to supply towards de'rayiflg the expenses ot providing courts of justice and offices belonging to the same. Vb count Palmluston Dill to carry into effect an additional article to the treaty of the 7th day of April, 1SC2, between her Majesty aud the United States of America, for the suppression of the African slave trade. Mr.

Vili.if.rs Toor lieiuoval (No. 3) Bill. Mr. C. PoitTESCUK Passengers Act Ameudment BilL Mr.

Black On motion for third reading of Prison Ministers Bill, to move tliat it be read the third tune upon this day six mouths. TUESDAY, May 15) OltDlillS UK TlUi DAT. District Parochial Churches ilrelaud1 Bill-necond reading; Execution of Decrees Dill second reading Co.U Pwfsr Uill second reading. TIITJP.SDAY. May 81.

OKDtli OK TIIL DA Sale of Gas Act Amendment BiH scun i Contest for Precedence bistween Dublin and Edisbueoh. We understand that a full report on the relative precedence of the Corporations of Dublin and Edinburgh has been mado to the Lord Lieutenant by Sir Bernard Burke. Ulster King of Arms, and has been transmitted by his Excellency to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. We have reason to believe that this report establishes beyond all question the superior rights and higher precedence of the city of Dublin. Dublin Evening Mai! Lost and Saved.

By the Hou. Mrs. Norton. 3 vols. "Lost and Saved," says the Athencevm, is a work of such rare excellence that it would create a stir among novel-readers even if it had not Mrs.

Norton's nane on the title-page. The story has an abundance of plot, counterplot, and episode, and even a superabundance of character. It surpasses Stuart of Dunleath in strength, delicacy, and that quality which is technically termed Moreover, the gloom of the tale is relieved by a light, airy, racy humour. The artistic grace and ease of the opening pgs may be studied with profit by the most practised novelist." The Dekby Field. "The Field of May 32 will be a Double Number.

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By the arrival of the overland mail we havo advices from CalcutU to April 8 Madras, April 16 CeyJon, April 17 ELong Kong, April 1 Adelaide, March 26 Melbourne, March 25 Sydney, March 21 Otago, March 18 and Auckland, February 28. INDIA On the 15th ult the Vicerov of India and Commander-in-Chief were wending their way toward the Himalayas, visiting all the large stations en route. They were at Umballa the oud of Marcb, where Lord Elgiu held a durbar which waa numerously attended by native princes and chiefs, whom he addressed in a speech said to Lave been the happiest effort of that kind made by him durir.g his viceregal progress. His excellency and Sir Hugh Rose will, it is reported, visit Sanawar and the other hill sanitaria lying adjacent to their line of march, before going to Simla. The frontier disturbances so long prevalent on the north-west frontier of Bengal are subsiding fast.

We hear but little about them now. The Madras AUicnrtum, of April 15, says The finance, as mentioned in our last ovci laud pper, flourish beyond what even the incmt sanguine ca'cuLtors reckoned on, and a late government return shows that the currency notet are forcing their way more and more into circulation. On the 30th of April, 18u2, there were four crores and forty lakhs of them in use, thirty of whidh belonged to this presidency. Since that date, the hut-mentioned amount has beon wore doubled. We are all now on the tiptoe of expectation to learn the nature of Sir Charles Trevelyan's budget, nothing certain about which has been suffered to creep out.

It is generally believed, however, that several millions of the cash balances will be appropriated to the paying off af dnbouturos shortly falling due. Rumour has pokeo of other reductions of the Indian dobt, and a good deal of speculation in government paper wm the result, but the beat informed parties at Calcutta do not appear to credit that story which has, however, led the native community to run the Four per Cents, up to par, or even a shade above it. Sir Charles is understood to be desirous of interfering with the presout currency arrangements in a way which will be very prejudicial to the interests of the three presidency banks, and we fear to those of tbe public likewise, if the crotchetty designs imputed to him are really entertained. The Hwrkaru says Nevnr since the famous year after the mutiny has there been such an exodus of Calcutta residents as during the last aud present month. Not only are members of the two services flocking homeward, partly from disgust at the new order of things, partly with vague hope of wresting justice from Sir Charles Wood by personal importunity, but also an unusual uu ruber of merchants are among the homeward liouuu, eager to escape for while from the exhausting climate of Calcutta.

Thus far the season has been "out of joint." Once and again the lightning has flashed and the thunder growled in the distance, but only one dust storm has yet made its appearance, and of rain not a drop has fallen during the last six weeks. There is, consequently, a good deal of sickness among the native population, and on the river cholera prevails to a somewhat serious extent. CHINA. Hong Kong papers of April 1 state that the town of Sbaouhsing, about 90 miles from Ningpo, was being besieged by a Franco-Chinese contingent, the same which had been twice repulsed under Generals Lbrethon and Tardif, both of whom were successively killed. The latter has been succeeded by a General D'Argraibelle, and the rebels have evacuated the city, evidently wearied out by tbe determination of the attacking force.

The siege lasted exactly a month. An advance was then made upon Seaou-san, which also ro-jorted to be evacuated by tbe rebels, who are falling back upon Hang-chow. There has been no more fighting. The rebeb walked out of these places and the Franco-Chinese forces walked in. From Pekin there is no intelligence but from Tien-tsin tho news is again discouraging.

The vyen-fei rebels have appeared in the neighbourhood, and an encounter with them has resulted in a serious accident to Acting-Consul Gibson. it appears that, on learning of the approach of these hordes of marauders, Mr. Gibson got tua disciplined Chinese up from Taku where there are about 2 000 under arms. With a detachment of 700 he proceeded against the Nyea-fei, aud was met by a band of these peoplo, whom he ordered his men to charge, he himself loading them on. Only about 70 obeyed, and it was not until he was close upon (he foe that Mr.

Gibson found out the fact beforo he could extricate himself he bad reo'ivod one or two spear wounds about tbe head, and he now dangerously ill at Tieu-tbin, having been for somo insensible. The English troops at Taku havo been detained hy order of Sir F. Bruce. From Shanghai we learn that renewed dissatisfaction is felt among the merchants, owing to the imposition of taxes on goods removed by native purchasers. Tax-gatherers are posted at the doors of the different merchants' premises, and a duty is levied upon each bale of goods removed by Chinese dealers.

JAPAN. The Overland Trad? Report says Rolative to Japan tho prospects aro gloomy. Admiral Kuper with his squadron had not reached Ycdo by last advices, and waa evider.tiy in rendezvous somewhere. The impression prevalent is that be will demand pecuniary compensation for the murder of Mr. Richardson, and will cauccl the postponement of tho treaty light to open Yedo and Opaku to foreign trade failing this that ho will occupy, joiutly with the French, the Loochoo Islands, which belong to Satsuma, whose retinue murdered Mr.

Richardson, aud which iBlauds yield, it is said, a laJgo revenue. Should these means fail it is supposed that other islands belonging to Daimios of the anii foieign party will be occupied. Meanwhile the the Japanese are buying steamers and rauuitions of war and it is said are determined to resist. 3t i added that their negociations will bo conducted iu tho first instance under the auspices of the American minister, sud will partake of remonstrance, not of The ge-uoral opiuion is that tbe Japanese will show fight, and that Admiral Kuper's instructions give him no choice but coercion. The proclamation of which a translation was lately given in this journal, purporting to be from the Mikado to the effect that oi eigners should be expelled the couu try, must havo been aeanard.

The Japan Heru! publishes as authentic, two stale documents, both from the Mikado and the Tycoon which displays a disposition to temporise. The power of the Tycoon to make the foreign treaties is not by any means repudiated, though the Mi-ado declines to ratify them aud displays repugnance at foreiguors being allowed to come near his capital, Misko. It is explained that the Americans obtained their treaty by stating that the English and French Laving coaqnered China, were coming to Japan, and that the Americana could and would, if a treaty wore concluded, with them, act as mediators and shield the Japanese from harm. The necessity of making treaties of somo sort with foreignnis is admitted, and tho Tycoon is ordered to consult with tho leading Daimios as to what bad best bo done. AUSTRALIA.

The Melbourne Herald of March 25 says that the session of tho Victorian Legislature this year has been one of tho most laborious experienced, yet the least fruitful of practical results. "The ministry still command a decisive majority in both houses, and they are steadily sustained by the intelligent opinion of the coutitry but the existence of a forlorn hope of 'obstructives in the assembly has unfortunately had the effect of causing the most vexatious aud injurious delay of tbe public business. If we say that the Electoral Bill has leen read a third time in the Assembly, and been dispatched to the Upper House, we shall havo stated the nett result of the month's During the month of February 20 persons arrived at Melbourne, aud 5,712 took their departure, leaving a balauce against tho colony of 2,752 souls. Of tho arrivals, 1,790 were adult malcsi, 822 adult females, 181 male, and 158 female children. Of the departures, 4,701 were adult males, 508 adult females, 215 male and 108 female children.

About four-fifths of the departures were for New Zealand. Tho news from the gold fields is good. A stern determination is expressed by the Australian colonies to resist the revival of transportation to these shores. Iu order to give tho Victorian protest tbe emphasis of a national declaration, tho Chief Soereiary has drawn up the following address' fa her Majeaty May il please your Majeaty, We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the members of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, in prliment assembled, beg leave to approach vour Majesty with renewed assurance of our loyalty and-ifTecttt. We ilaaire to make known to your Majesty that we have leaned with the utmoat alarm that thc suUet(rfiiasptfcto the Australian colonies has once rJnjHwfl-W attention of the impend govern- country in it burkes interests we feel bound tpsapha-tically protest ari.tfte.OTir1 or continuance of Irsaa-portation to Im paction, of.

ihe Austral isu coouppnt settlement. ThwtrWp look hackwith honor to the trocioud Crimea perpetrated after the discovery of the goU fields by a host of criminals who suddenly appeared amongst our community from adjacent penal colonies, and the remembrance of the state of society eaeeodered bv their is the "star" of tho terrible drama, indeed, out she does not shine alone. Just aa her girlish loveliness and her purity of heart are made touch-ingly real to the reader, who knows they must be blmhted, so the fascination, the evil charm, the cultivation whose source is deeper than beauty, the wickedness, tne scieutinc deceit aud treachery which. 1L. i 1 J.

I cessful Miily Nesdale, are just as real. The author throws herself into the delineation of oue character with as much zest as into that of the other and in those which have fewer salient points, aud leas to do with the story, she is equally happy, equally true. Lady Nesdale, the evil genius of the story, is a creation which will probably be likened by readers, who will not compare the types with due acumen, to Becky Sharpe. The resemblance is, however, altogether superficial and general and Becky is but a coarse daub in comparison with the jinesse, the tact, the perfect finish, the rraisemblance of Milly Nesdale. Becky sought to elfeet vulgar ends, and succeeded by vulgar means ail the outlines of that famous piece of i) tue cuaraoier or toe rriumnuaiit auu suc cbaracter-paintuig are coarse; the woman is so transparent a sham that she can take in nobody but heavy dragoons who cannot speil, and a conceited ninny UKe jrici urawiey.

oue never aeceives a gentleman; the moment she comes in contact with oue she is detected. All her manieuvres are coarse, from her silk winding with Joseph Sedley to her I it was the diamond brooch you gave me!" to Pitt, when hia wife has found her out. Mrs. Norton's "Milly Nesdale" will stand the test of the closest I criticism, and in uo respect is her character more admirably drawn than in the careless, almost 1 accidental, maunerof her introduction. The reader catches a glimpse of her at the opera, hears her meutioned in casual gossiping among the fine ladies who are to weave so many dark threads iuto the woof of Beatrice's fate, gains a certain i familiarity with her fashionable, graceful, presence and, having her thu3 before his mind, learns to understand, to see, to loathe her, as the author understands, sees, and loathes her in a chapter entitled Milly Nesdale," to which he is forced to give an unwilling preference over any other in the book.

Unwilling, because choice seems invidious, and 13 indeed difficult for the author has so bestrewn her pages with gems of thought, of sentiment, and fancy, with passages of fiery satire, aud stern invective, of keen, incisive, merciless that it is hard to take any number of them from any other, and aay that thereiu lies the achievement of the book. The gift of humour, the facility of wit. so rarely to be found in the writings of women, however rare and high their intellectual faculties, are never wanting in Mr3. Norton's work and in this instance the pages sparlvle with epithet and epigram worthy of Sheridan's granddaughter, or of Sheridan himself. The description of the Marchioness of Updowu is irresistibly droll.

This noble lady, who play3 an important and particularly odious part in the story, is invested with such humorous peculiarities that the reader is amused in spite of himself amused when he ought to be profoundly disgusted, but when virtuous indignation is overpowered by a sense of irrepressible fun. Yet the march'oness is not overdrawn the hereditary perception and production of comedy is never permitted to degenerate into farce. With what keen satire and genuine humour does the author describe the family arrangements for keeping the young heir free from any honourable ties until his majority shall have arrived, and the fit aud proper period for marrying him to oue of his cousins. How charmingly his aunts arrange a liaison for Montague Trehernawith Lady Nesdale, cultivate her intimacy, invite and flatter her, and congratulate themselves on her being a safe occupation" for him, and preserving him from all peril of leading a virtuous life. The mordant yet melancholy knowledge of the world, the merciless anatomy of motives, and "sets," of respectabilities aud appearances, of popular delusions, and of the arrogant boastings of a society which teems with deceit aud treachery, with cruelty and hypocrisy, are in the finest style of cynical observation while the indignant protest and eloquent appeal spring fresh, warm, and living, from the heart of a woman who is a poet.

The Cier-laverock family form a gallery of unrivalled portraits even the sisters, who resemble each other in j.llnusue.ss aud worldliness, Lady Eudocia and the Marchioness of Updown, are utterly distinct. The quarrels of these two women, each bent on their separate selfish ends, but sometimes forced iuto momentary points of contact, are delightfullv comic; and the scene iu the purple dressing room" is like one of Hogarth's pictures expressed with pen and ink. Montague Treberne is a creation to which the reader wili render a tribute of admiration, largely uiingled with surprise. If anything can be rarer thau an accurate portraiture of the characters and dispositions, the motives audhe impulses of women by men, it is a truthful rendering of those of men by a woman's pen. In this Mrs.

Norton's success is one which has few examples. If she has studied her hero from the worthless life, so much the worse for the real live Beatrices who shall come in his guilty way; and if the portrait be a fancy one, it has the innermost truth of some life in it, discerned by the piercing eye of genius, divined through the fairest mask that ever vice aud heartlessness wore. The character of Treherne pervades the books with its impalpable, truthful subtleness it is not formally stated like that of his partner in guilt, like that of the glicterinsr devil who halr him lav waste the fair future of the innocent oirl who trusts him, but the reader forms as perfect an acquaintance with it as with the "twin aoul of 7l f. J1 Lady Nesdale "Now Treherne was essentially a man of the world. Ha llal 00 other existence than that which merges in clubs, Pities, and politics.

Politics, not as a severe atudy of different social syatetns, but aa a matter of House ot Commons attendance, and votin ticular leaders and Milly NeadaJ and the rivalry of par-was a twin soul with nun in tnese things. And in another most material Doiat aha wn. twin soul. Montague Treherne had no religion. The landlady had sai.l that it did one good to hear Beatrice prav.

Not only it inspired hirn with no sympathy but at the bottom of his heart he thought the whole thing Now, Milly Nesdale, the half-bred Hindoo niece of the wily Myra aLo thought 'the whole thing She believed in the Lord Jehovah about as much a3 in the god Vishnu. Sue had no 'superstitions' or She was not even lilie tha hero of one of Edmund Ahout's novels, of whom it said that, though be did not believe, ha believed ia Fridays, in luck and soelis. and all th4 follies which the eksiaent Abbe Uupanloup declared uoa permits to influence trie minds of the most heathenish aad sceptical, to show how necessary some belief is to the human heart. Milly believed in nothing except in herself, and moat profound washer self-adoration. She devoutly believed she was the most charming of human beings she was convinced that she inspired the most unconquerable attachments, and that all other preferences or rivalries were mere entanglements.

She was saved from much jealousy partly by this pleasant conviction, and partly by not cariair for the man -u, mnMi a for the visible and apparent conquest. She was little tempted, and very shrewd. Unlike her aunt Myra, she had aiwav3 kept on the vantage side. NeviM- had always the power to lead or to govern tha meu who became enamoured of her. In general she succeeded in any very vehement claims on her regard but a suitor resolved 1 not to be trifled with 1 she bought her wucic, aa in wro oi irenerne, arm one or two others.

wiuu uer sru, i asteau or ner coquetry, as she would nave given a nunareU guineas for a shawl sh rv.nlrl buy for thirty. She conducted these various intrigues with the most audacious courage and the most matchless l.ika m.f 1 had asiUvT SSS We the motto of famous old Harry Vaughan Qui dniulare neacit The greater the of stratagem the greater tbe amusement, and it ZfSiLSftliffi abilities that she had I braved im Up to the time of Nesdales father's death mTi't fh" 1, 7. ntrary, to go out unobserved, wen aao sue mar uauagea matters so well especially when she Aunt Myra). that nn rtA niiiM went out with 'nit became of Milly from onA Bna 'AilJllJW the world love.1 MUly There ia no numan element wanting to the in- uiuai- ii culmination of griet to lier, are Deyonct praise. "Lost and Saved," after the manner of Mrs Nortou's former works, is the fruit of many asao ciations, and is united with memories of both jUy and sorrow.

She traces them in a dedicatory pre. face, which harmonises well with the pathos of the book, and the depth of its meaning, aad the nobility of ita purpose. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (lienors Teleyrams. CRACOW, May tu (Evening).

Between the 8th and 10th inst. au insurrection broke out at five different points of Volhynia. The insurgents confined in Galicia have ail refused to avail themselves of the amnesty, in spite of the solicitations oi the Russian LEMBERG, May 16. The insurrection has broken out in four districts of Podolia. The peasantry remain quiot.

Three insurgent corps have made their appearance in the districts of Vladimir and Luck. The Russians are fortifying Luck. LelewelT corps has marched northwards. The whole of Ukrania is in a state of insurrection, with the exception of the districts of where the nobility are favourable to Russia. An insurrectionary proclamation has been issued, recognising the rights of the Russian nationalities.

A provisional insurgent chief has been proclaimed in the Ukraine. BERLIN, May 1G. Letter received here from Warsaw state that on the 10th instant the revolutionary Town Captain, in order to prevent the emigration of despondent citizens, issued a proclamation forbidding auy person to leave Poland without a passport from the National Government. DANTZIC, May The Ostsee. Zeitung of to-day says: "The provincial revolutionary committee for Lithuania has published a reply to the imperial ukase granting au amnesty, which says Aa the object of the insurrection is not to obtaiu concessions from the Emperor, but to establish the independence of tbe whole of Poland within the frontiers winch existed before its partition, the national struggle shall continue until the last Muscovite soldier has been driven from these Polish provinces, or till the last Polish army baa ceased to fight.

(Sciiarf's Telegrams. LEMBERG, May LG (Evening). The following are specific dates and details respecting the insurrection which has broken out in the Ukraire, Volhynia, and Podolia. On the 9th inst. the insurrection broke out iu 10 districts of the Ukraine.

On tho 10th seven districts of Volhynia, aud on the 13th five of Podolia were in open insurrection. There are at least well armed insurgents in each district. The peasantry of the Ukraine have jitned the insurrection. A Cossack republic has been proclaim under the protection of and in union witli Poland. CRACOW.

May 16. A few days ago the town of Mtendryrzec, in Podlachia, wa3 attacked by the insurgents-under Czarnecki and Kryzinski, and after a desperate fight they retired, having been informed that reinforcements were hurrying to the ffiMrrisoa from Biala. May 16. The news of tho defeat of Lezioranski on the ILfch and the flight of 1 is men the frontier is iucorrect. He is far in the interi i the Palatinate of Lublin.

KONIGSBSRG, Vtiu FURTHER PARTICULARS ABO ATROCITIES AT PYlfABuRG 16. TliE A few days ago the train arrived here from Rns-zoua. with LJ2 persons, who had been so frightfully beaten as to be covered with Wouuds. ie of these deeds were the Itaskolniki. the wounded waa an old man of 70, named and immediately on the arrival of the tram the soldiery dragged them out oc tiio carriages, aud, after keeping them for half an hour iu the ram, took them to the citadel.

According to the Polish official organ, ou tho 8th inst. Taczanowuki had bo well himself in the Lubolowo woods that the KuBBians were compelled to burn the colony at gnacewo, which covered him, in order that he might be compelled to leave his camp. During the operations which succeeded about loO Poles fell, and about 100 wain wounded or burned. The wood was burned on two sides, without much uam.ige being caused to it, Count Dzialynski, who was engaged in tho combat, sought to place 300 stand of arms in a place of security, but they fell into the hands of the Russians. wa3 so cut off from hi3 people at the commencement of the fight that he could not communicate with them.

About Russians were engaged. Their Ions was very heavy. The following more detailed account of this ailah is taken from the O-itsee (Baltic) ig ''On the 8th iusi. the German village cole nv at Unaewa, near Lubolowo, in the Konin circli, was (be Ctfoe sanguinary and decisive battle between the ftusaarja ind tbe insurgent corps under Taczanowskl. The latter had erected barricades around this village, the inhabitants of which had fled, and he had also thrown up eutroncamnU, behind which he awaited the attack of the Uu.wiaas.

About a quarter to eleven in the morning, the Russians from INiklo began a furious cannonade the village which was replied to by four guns mi the part of the insurgents, aft) about an hour the storming of th? place commence), md two hours and a half the insurgents bravely beat the Russians back. When the Russians had taken all tho entrenchments a desperate fight took place within the village. The houses iu which the insurgents had posted the guns which had caused great Ioeses to tho Russians, had to be taken by attack one after the other The entire village then became on fire, and many of the were burned. The result of the fight, which lasted uearly live hours, was tbe complete defeat and dispersal of the insurgent corps. Tbe loss on both sidt-i wan very considerable.

According to Pollfeh ac-mints tho insurgents had 180 killed, among whom were burned, and there were alwut 100 wouuded and uOor 70 ta.en prisoners. The loss of the Russians was also very considerable. Tlio Polish leaders who fell wore Major Strzelecki, PeW Sokolniki, Jackowski, Z.i borouski, and DeraoouSki. lhe following were severely wounded tho deputy ML Udislaw von Niegolewski, M. Witotf voo Turuo Mieiwfcl von Szczauiecki, all three from the province of Pum.

on Turno has already died of his wounds, uod Von Megolewski has been shot in the chest. l0 taauraentii nave taken refuge on Prussian This Benefit op RoaKKa. Drury-laue is open for the beuefit of the widow and farmly of James Rogers, who ehiofly at the Sfcraud Theatre kepi audience in a roar His inimitable and omet droller) aud the excellence of his acting have given many a pleasant evenings aniosement to play-goers. They should be remembered to-nigbt, for he died poor- we believe very poor and every and seveieigu that contributed this occasion is of the greatest consequence to a family wnom he was unable to provide out of his small earning His work was hard his pay could not be Uge. was aa aojious aad deserving artist, and by his life wi-U merited that the laughing public, shocked by his sudde and early death, should, while they iiause to pity, ejttetS a rnendlvand efftv.t.unllv 1......1 i ihw sadly deprived of its support.

Thb Attbmpted Murder and Scictdb Woolwich. Tbe inquiry on the body of Mr. Robert, full particulars of whose wiicide have already appeared in the Mommy Pout, waa held on Saturday morning before Mr. Carttar. The evidence went to show that the deceased in no way excited previous to his death, butverv loliberat, and wrote letter to bin wife denying the chargoa again1 bisi, and giving minute directions ai to the course best t' adopt on the tiial of his servant girl, Fasten, who had wui ui uis servani girl, wuu vmt stated that her master induced her to attempt to poson boi FulHaene4t of reduced duty obtained by purchasing tea in packets.

Very choice at M. M. and 4s. high standard" at U. 4d, the best importer io eviueace was nLso derogatory to rixwin character.

The jurj were locked up ton two hours, sd disagreed as to their verdict, uituoaUdy requesting lb' Court to atfjduin for further evidence. Adjourned uutd dale had 'nn ccmivn I for wPrlf If he wanted a drive, or to to her i Frlies' the adsomest equipages rolled to the door and vaIv acso'rding ttt, wwbh -amy stent harhtlv in "tfj was uie "no carriage' system She beauty, whose guileless joy, whose innocent affec- sb laughingly expressed it, 'hitherin-tion, whose passionate despair and lengthened sha rested in a shop; ahe 'got into a uu, wuuoo jj.isaiuuaic ue-spdir ana ientnendd anguish, the author enters with such keenand in Lost and Saed. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton nKKn- of Stuart Dunleath, hondou Hurst anU.