The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

IVIONE V and Ct) ALNIEIiCIAL NEW S. CM'. Q /JAR TP,"R TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather better, prices being firmer. Saks, 5,000 bales. Ame rican, - 4.1, to Sid. per lb. Railway Shares have also been quoted at advanced rates, with an improved busi ness doing- Midland, Dover, and North Western were better. There are Cape of Good Hope papers to Jan. 211, by the Vigilant, but this is not so late a date as we have already had. The letters from abroad are of no special import. Mercantile and monetary affairs seem in a very un satisfactory position every where, and confidence was at a low ebb in many continental cities besides Paris. We find the Dutch papers denying that the Netherlands Tradi ng Company has been empowered to make over tures to the Belgian Government for a treaty of corn tierce. Much satisfaction was expressed that M. Bille c,?eff had b een e l ec t e d the Envoy from France to aelgi um. The electi on y es t er d a y f or directors of the Bank of England resulted in the appointment of five very influ ential and experienced gentlemen who have never before served the impertent office., and the result is likely to be increased efficiency, the old members of the board co-operating. The settlement of the Consol account having been effected, or at least the preliminary arra ngements made, the f un d s have now taken a downward turn again. For present transfer, Consols have been 82i to 81i, and for M ay 9,82 i to 811. Stock is the refore !till s carcer for mone y than account. Exchequer-bills bave been quoted 37a. to 40s. premium, and India Bonds I°3 . to 225. premium. Bank Stock has been 184 to 187, and India Stock 223 k to 228. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have realised 811 to 821, and there l lPPear to have been sales by the public. Consols are at present about 82 to 1. In thebush Foreign Market there has been scarcel y an y T h e Spanish Five per Cents. are 10 to 11, and the Small- Mexican Bonds have been 141 to i. In Rail Shares has been more disposition Railway there to d eal, but holders g e nerally require better prices , led this checks business. The French lines are much Arm or. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock lB4 187 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities Si 81 1 4 10% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 82%u% 1501 1 82% N ew 3 IA( per Cent. Anns.... til'A 112y 4 8144 82% SI% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 5 5-16 3-16 D 0.30 Years , Exp ire 10, 1859... 6 3-16 India Stock 22$ 223% Do. Bonds, 1000/ .... 20 21 p Consols for A ccount . Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. /...... Small ......... 40 37p TRICE OF FOREIGN ........................ - ..... FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazil' tan Bonds, S per Cent Ditto Small Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 55 Ditto, New, 1843 Grenada, 1 per Cent. • . .. Mexican Bon i t a , 1846 , 5 per C en t. ... . Ditto for the Account 14 1 41 ,4 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 55 Ditto 3 per Cent 13% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o : Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. .• Ditto for the Account ....... Dividends on the above payable in London. itT,siv ---ESS DONE IN RAILWAY RIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. ril 811•11. Aberdeen Ai n 50 her., Notting., Boston, &c. 3% — ....- to A ~Y.rs • hire and Gall owa y ; 4 , l fitst and County Down .. 13 -.. Birmingham, & Oxford June._ 20 Wol & Dudle , 10 ... . 13 1 4 to Riresi Vol.", Y n• rig-, A , & Stour Vial . 101.145.... irkenhead, Lancashire, and Clieshir Junction n s 7 3 / 4 . 11 ' oston, Stamt., & Birming.. . 5 ristol and Exeter Do., Thirds uckn B • ighamsbire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and H01yhead......... 37% l3 l/4 to Ditto, Preference.- 15 Clarence. Do., lit Class, 6 per C'nt... 10 . ... to Do.; 2d Ciass,s per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 3:;i — Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 17 1 east Anglia, 251. L. & E., aid L. & D. ... __ 25 ...... to Ditto, 18/., E. k H lB ..... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 3 to Eastern Counties .••• Do.Papet.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13e. 4d % di..... to Do., d 0.... N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d 1 dis. .. to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... . ...... ...... 12%. .. Do., New Eiatern Union ... ... • fie Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... 10 . — Ditto, ditto ....... ... 20 •• ..•••• E •••••• ast Lancashire 'Ditto, New .. ........... ...• • 15 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire .. 16% 14%%... to Edinburgh and Gl asgow to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quart er Sh ares 12% — -Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... Ditto,N ew ..... ........ ...... 3% - ...... to bitto, New port l2 Ditto, Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to Ditto, N ew . .... 2% — to L T , 1118 8.• Dumfries, & Calisle.. B / 50 . 65.8 d... - 'tligaW, Kihnarnock, & Ayr ...... to Ditto, New Do.Pr e t erence C onso lid a t e d 15 Great Northern ~ Do. London & York Exten. 2% — ... .. to ‘)t• South. & West. (Ireland) 10 'Great North of England 100 223 Ditto, Nt w 401 Ditto, New 30/. ~, Ditto N ew 15 1 ...... ... ...... 6%..-.. . Great Western Ditto, Half Shares .... 50 % Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths .„ Do. New 17/ -uuddersfield and Manchester 26 .. _. Ditte, Thirds iitill and Selby Ditto, Half Shares I Ditto, Quarter Shares P3wieh & Burr St. Edmunds 1 121 7% — to Do. do. and Norwich Do. do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2 1 ,4 — ..... to L ancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 , Do., Thi r d s La.ncsshire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters ... 14% ...... ... .. to D itto Fifths ... D itto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6 1 4 .. .... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.48 — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 38 bo. ( }Judders. and Shelf.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 1)0 ., West Hiding Uni on ...41. 25..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do. Half Shares (A) 9 Leed s and ' Bradford 5O .. .. Lee ds , Dewsbury, & Munches. 42% — to DO . , Half Shares Ditto. Blue (scrip) ..... .... 2% — ...... to -. Leed s and Thirsk .... .. Ditto, New ..bo., d o ., P re f er., 6 per Cent. 3 1..„. L iverpool, Crosby, and Sout h- Port. Liverpool, M - —anchester, and Newcastle Juncti0n........., 2 1 ,4 — London * Blackwell ......131. 6s. 8d.... 4% to Ditto New, No. 2 5!. 13s. 4d.... .. . to Do. Extension ...... Lond., Bright., & South C oast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths-. 40 - to Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . . 8 De. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... .. Ditto, ditto 1852 50 .. .. London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... .. to London is North Weatern.....loo 127 126... to 127 Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 - Do. New Do. Fifth s to Do. 40/. Sh ares.....L. & M. 20 ... Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 71/5..... •••••• to Do. 10/. -M. and B. (B.) 7 1 / 2 9 to Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western...—. 50 ...43% 44 43% to 44 Ditto, New 504.....- ....... 3 7% • •• Ditto, New 404... ..... .. - 30 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Te nt h s (Consolidated) 40 to - Ditto,Thirds -.- ......... ... London 10 ...... Londonderry and Enuiskin e .. n . 25 Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 - to to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 3 Manch. Buxt on , & Matlock 3 . .. ...- Manchr, Sheffield. and I.inc.lo .. Ditto 1 ,4 Shares (N o . 1) .„. 13 .. ..... to Ditto, ditto (No. 2) ......... 25 ...... Ditto, % Shares (No. 3 )... 7 1 ,4 ...... to .. Do., New 1(11. Preference.. 7% Ditto Grimsby ... ............ 30 :7" . --- Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. tp ...... to Ditto, Grimsby Dock Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 23. ......... to Stanchest er and Southlunpton 2 1 ,4 i ...... .o _ to Di 1 0 0 .... to 95 .100 - ._iitte, Consol. Preference.. ...... to —. Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... lb Midland, Sinn., and Derby...loo ..... 7 5 Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 ll4 ...... to 115 Midland, Bristol anti Glouc. 36 ... — Ditto ditto 11/. 35.6 d. .. ...... to Midland, Leices. and Swan aingten (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . kidld. Great Western ( Irish) 35 Middlesbro' and Redcar, C per cent. gear...... . 50 Xevreastle and Carlisle , Ditto Quart er Sh ares ...... to •clo wetarket and Ch estertoru 18,,2 — * e D itto Exten s i on ewport Abergy., ai d H ere f. 6 rtbik 100 Dit to Tow 20/. - Dl'tto EZOIIBIOII THE Do. Guaranteed 5% per et. 6 .. —...—• to Do. Scrip,lB47, N. of Norflk 2 Ns 2 Do. do. NVaveney Valley... Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and 12 1 / 4 — ... •.. to Rostrevor S orthern Counties Union ....14 North British .. ...... ........ 25 .• Ditto Half Shares. .... ..... 12% B l / 4...... to 9 Do. Quarters 51,4. — ..... to Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds .... ........ -.... 3 ' ...... 1 North gadSouth-Western... 2 North Staffordshire... .. ...... 10 North Wales 3% — . .... to North Western • 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% — to Royston and Ilitchin ... 1 % .... •• ► to Scottish Central .. .... 25 . 25% to 24 Scuttisn Midland ..- ....... .... 22% Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole - - hrewsbury and Birmingham 7 .. „. _ . Ditto, ditto, Cla — ss B. 4 z.•hrewsbury and Chester (Nor. NV . Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto 3 ... .. . ... to Ditto, Uswestry l4 Ditto (New) ... 1 -to Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref. ..... 6 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 ...... to Shropshire Union . 4 ...... P s to South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 22%.....• ...... to South Staffordshire South Eastern ...... .. . ... 334, Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4............ 7 1 ,4 3311••••.. to -- South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole II - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 4 - to l'hames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1,4 — raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3 1,4...... —. Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin ... 2 Wear Talley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed Do. do. do. West Cornwall Whiteksven and Furness l2 ... .. - Windsor, Staines, and South Western... ............. ....... 7 Wilts,Somerset,&Weymoutk 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 Do. Exton. No. 1 (Y. &N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 ... .. 10 Do. G. N. E. Fur. or Pref. $ ... .. 7 3 / 4 to York and North Midland .. 50 ...... 63 1 14 to Ditto, Preference Ditto East and \V est Riding Extension ... .... 25 - FOREIGN R AILWAY& Boulogne and Amiens 2O ... .. & 1 ,4 to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain .... ........ ... 2 Ceylon .. Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bousbay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 53....... ...... to Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con- . stituted) Madrid and Valentin Namur and Liege........ l6 Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d . Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans.. Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 8 Tournay, J ur bi se , Landen, and Hasselt West Flanders - JOINT STOCK 11ANKS. Australasia - British North American .... be Colonial ..... .......—.. ......... 23 ... to Commercial of London .. ..... 20 ...... London Joint Stock ~... lO ...... London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, Now National of Ireland ....... 2 2 1,4 — ••• .. to Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ...... .. ... to Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, Now 2% — to Union of London ...... .. ...... 10 Union of Madrid . MIXES. Anglo Mexican lOO — to Asturian Mining Company... 12 ...... Australian ... 2l, — ..... to Elaenary on Iron and Coal ... bll - Bolaxos Scrip - British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...,. ..... 24 Galvanized Iron ... ...... ...... 10 Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. Ph.. ... to Do. Black Debentures — LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 13.—Wind W.S.W., moderate breeze and cloudy. PORTHCAWL, APRIL 11.—The Resolution, of and for Swansea, from Bristol, got on the Skerweather Sands yesterday, but got off again, and has been assisted in here very leaky and .cargo much damaged. HULL, APRIL 12.—The Koning Willem 11. steamer, which sailed hence last night for Kampen, got in contact this morning with the Albatross steamer from Yarmouth, and both received considerable damage. DEAL, APRIL 12.—Wind W. to S.W., fresh and squally.—Arrd. Sophie. Bontzen, Hamburg, and sailed for Havannah ; Souter Johnny, Ellis, China; Vigilant, Henderson, Cape of Good Hope; Horneby, Rio Janeiro; Alice, Palmer, Jamaica. Arrd. from the river, Grati tude, Adelaide, South Australia; William, Rio Janiero; Louisa Margaret, Quebec. Put back, Prince, Quebec; Cove, ditto. ()FE THE WIGHT, APRIL 12.—Marys, Berbice; Mary Jones, St. Domingo. EXMOUTIL—SCd. Speculator, Miramiehi. BRISTOL—Sid. Gambia, Coast of Africa; Lucy, An tigua; Bellona, Prince Edward's Island. LIVERPOOL, A PRIL 12.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Acrd. Orezaba, Vimns, New Orleans; Speed, Moses, Norfolk g Montreal, Eber, New York. Sid. Susan, Vera Cruz; Westmoreland, Brazils; Sceptre, Pernambuco; Sylphide, Africa; Oliver Cromwell, Valparaiso; Prince Victoria, Maranham ; Nlartha, Antigua; Eliza Bell, Hayti; Sealby, Tampico; Garrick, New York; Amelia, Boston; Chester, St. John's, New Bruaswick; Lightfoot, Halifax; Bur rell, Kestigouche ; Ocean, Newfoundland; Sylla, ditto. Ara, APRIL 11.—Sld. Samson, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE •IAND LEILDENHALZ. We had a very steady trade here to-day, and prices were well supported in every instance. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Lamb, .5s 10d to 65 10d; Veal, 3s 10d to 55; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s per 81bs by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, APRIL 12.—Our market w•as very scantily supplied with each kind of fat stock, the demand for which was firm, and, in some instances, the quotations had a❑ upward tendency. Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 4s to 55 2d; Lamb, 6s to 65 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. itomFonts, APRIL 12.—Prime Beasts moved off readily, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. All other kinds of stock were quite as dear. Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Lamb, 6s to 6s 10d ; Veal, 4s to 4s Bd, and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 1$1; and Quarter-old Store Pigs, 18s to 23s each. I lAiLsrtAm, APRIL 12.—We had a moderate inquiry for stock to-day, on the following terms:—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Lamb, 6s to 6s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s id per 811:06. ARUNDEL, APRIL IL—Beef, from 3a 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d; Lamb, 6s to 6s 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. CIIICIIESTER, APRIL 12 . —Prime Beasts and Sheep commanded a steady sale at very full prices; otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 3s 4d to 43 4d ; Mutton, 4s to 53 2d; Lamb, 5s 10d to 6s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s to 45 6d per 81bs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 18s to 21s each. HAY IMAXZETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ 4s; Clover, ditto, 4/ to 51 ss; and Straw, 11 $s to 11 12s per load. A short supply, and a steady demand. CUMeliaLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 8s to 41 53 ; Clover ditto, 41 to 51; and Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ I3s per load. Supply limited, and trade somewhat brisk. WrirrEcua.liEL.—Meadow Hay, 313 s to 414 s ; Clover ditto, 4/ to 5/ 7s; and Straw, 11 Ss to 11 12s per load. Trade firm, at very full prices. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 13, 184 S, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. I WIIEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. RYE. REINS. PEAS. PRICE .• 51s Gd 32s 2d 19s 7d 29s 6,11 35 s 3d 38s 3d DUTIES ON FOREIGN COUN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I TEAS. 75 Od 2s 3d 24 Gd 2s Od '2s Od 2s 04 T ALLOW -CHANDLERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. Yesterday a general meeting of the friends and sub scribers to the above charity, having for its object the relief of indigent and incapacitated tallow-chandlers, their widows, and others connected with the trade, was holden at the Hall of Commerce, for the election of six additional pensioners, from a list of fourteen candidates; Mr. J. Cattley, president, in the chair. The report stated that, with the result of yesterday's election, there would be 34 pensioners on the funds, the males receiving 16s. and the feraLles 12s. per month, society of about 3001. per annum, at a cost to the SPECIAL CONSTADLES.--ThR promoters of riot call the friends of peace and quietness " The Constable's Miscellany,"— Punch, CHARTIST CONVENTION, (THIS DAY.) The delegates met this morning at the usual hour. UNION WITH TIIE MIDDLE CLASSES. Mr. CLARK supported the motion in favour of coali tion with the middle classes. He felt fully convinced that it was impossibl e f or t h em, una id ed b y that class, to obtain the ends which they were seeking to attain, espe cially as they had not even now the assistance of the whole of the working classes themselves. Mr. WEST was of opinion that the people of the coun try were slaves, and he did not think that any associa tion with that class which had established the Anti- Corn-law League, in order to promote their own inte rests and oppress the people, would be likely to prove of any service to the cause of the Charter. The war that they were bound to wage was a war against the aris tocracy of the country, and if he could obtain the assistance of the middle classes in that object, it should be without a surrender of their principles. CHARTIST MISSIONARIES. A DELEGATE brought up the report of a committee appointed to inquire into this subject. The report stated that the committee had divided the country into eight districts, and had appointed two missionaries to each district. Considerable discussion took place upon the propriety of sending any delegates to Ireland. It was contended in support of the proposition that Ireland was a portion of the United Kingdom, and ought to be agitated as well as the other portions of the kingdom. Upon the other side it was maintained that Ireland was now fully occu pied with the question of repeal, and that no portion of the national petition had been constituted by the people of that country. Subsequently, however, three of the delegates were appointed to go over to Ireland as a de putation from the Convention. Nearly the whole of the missionaries nominated by the committee either moved for leave of absence, ex pressed a wish to go home and see their wives and fami lies, or declared in favour of working in their humble capacities as local agitators in the neighbourhood of their own homes, and were dissatisfied with the dis• tricts assigned to them, and a motion was made to the effect that the delegates upon whom the choice had fallen should retire, in order to settle their differences. Mr. CLARK moved, as as amendment, that the dele gates should not retire. It was most important for them to be present, to hear the debate that was to be resumed. A DELEGATE said that he did not see the slightest necessity for the whole of the delegates sitting there to listen to the same arguments and facts a dozen times repeated. The amendment of Mr. Clark was ultimately agreed to, and the debate upon the motion with respect to the union of the middle classes was resumed by Mr. Reynolds, who was followed by several other speakers. The motion was then agreed to. ALIEN ➢ILL. Mr. KIDD brought forward a motion condemnatory of the Bill introduced by Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords on the subject of aliens. The Convention then adjourned until the evening sitting. COMMON COUNCIL.-THIS DAY The Viscount ess Jo3elyn„, Lady COURT CIRCULAR. in Waiting to her Majesty, arriv e d at Osborne _on Tuesday.. Her Royal Highness tho Princess Helena was taken an airing in the pleasure grounds of Osborne on Tuesday. There was no addition to the royal dinner party at Osborne on Tuesday eyening, LITERATURE. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF FEB RUARY, 1848. 1 Vol., pp. 383. By Percy B. St. John. The author of this attractive volume has been doubly fortunate—as a man and as a writer—in wit nessing the late remarkable and glorious revolution. We, residents in England are fortunate likewise in the circumstance that Mr. Percy St. John was a sojourner in Paris during the immortal days of Feb ruary. He has appreciated so accurately the position of parties in the French capital ; he ob served the emeutes so vigilantly; he sympathised with the people so thoroughly; he has de scribed recent occurrences with a pencil so vivid, so rapid, and so inimitably copious (considering that the book under consideration was completed within a fortnight after the transference of the Go • vernnaent from the Tuileries to the Hotel de Ville), that we may well congratulate ourselves on the coin cidence of his presence throughout the disturbances. Those who may erroneously anticipate from the title-page a narrative of the entire revolution from personal observation are sanguine overmuch, and (if the apparent play upon words is allowable) frivolous over more. They are associating the divine attribute of übiquity with the body of a mere bookman. No sueh deacription of the progress of events among the Parisians can be expected until M. Etienne Arago shall (like M. Alphonse de Lamartine) given us his confidences in the shape of an autobio graphy, or until a semi-romance or demi-history shall appear from the pen of M. Alexandre D umas the hero of which s h a ll be the Marquis de la Pailleterie. ' For the brother of the great astronomer seems more than any one else to have been in half a dozen places at on ce , even according to the explicit reve lations of Mr. Percy St. John, and the gifted but eccentric auth or o f the " Monte Christo" some time Under-Secretary to the Due d'Orlea ns , now the most worshipful d evotee of the Republican ' regime —figured in nearly twenty different quartiers simultaneously, clothed in the trappings of the Garde National, and elevated on the shoulders of the gamins. Mr. St. John has judiciously collected his materials from a variety of authentic sources ---from his own experience as an eye-witness, from the hearsay of trustworthy informers, from orations, reports, pro clamations, and printed sketches. ' , lle book evi dences in every sentence the hurry in which it was composed and the excitement with which it was pro jected; yet these very characteristics—characteristics which at firstsight might seem to be absolute blemishes —are among the principal merits of the volume, seeing that they authenticate in a remarkable manner the actual hurry and excitement of which they con stitute the congenial record. The work is partitioned into seventeen chapters, and partakes of the confusion consequent upon the late catastrophe. Chapter I. de fines " the causes of the recent revolution" —causes which date back even to the three days of July, 18$0, when the transference of the crown of Charles X. to the brow of Louis Philippe I.—a miserable stock-jobbing trick from first to last — was the earlie s t blunder of the dethroned despot. No one will gain say for an instant the accuracy of our author's asser tion that— " The causes of the recent French Revolution may be variously stated to be:—the Revolution of 1830; the reaction which has taken place ever since; the personal government of Louis Philippe; the appointment of the Due d'Aumale as Governor of Algiers; the ruling of France by purchased majorities ; the entrance of cor ruption into the administration of affairs ; the Teste trial; the suicide of the Due de Praslin; the Reform banquets; the King's Speech; the prohibition of public meetings." This accumulation of reasons for an insurrectionary movement has long been notorious. Chapter 11. displays the overt progress of the popular opposition as revealed by the " Reform Banquets' in the vicinity of the capital, and in the departments ; and thus preludes the opening of the newly-elected Parliament of 1847 : " To face the Legislature, composed of a compact majority of contented placemen, ministers, and personal friends of King and Cabinet, there was an old King, who for eighteen years had succeeded every day in adding some link to the chain of power, with one son, the future regent; another married to the heiress presumptive to the throne of Spain ; another Viceroy of Algeria ; another with a high position in the navy; a daughter the wife of a neighbouring King ; in close alliance with the Monarch of Austria, and ruling in Spain through his creatures; with an army generalled and officered at his will ; a capital surrounded by the most extraordinary fortifications in the world, and commanded by eighteen detached forts ; a police the most perfect and extensive known to civilized society, and composed not only of constables, but of regiments of horse and foot;—he seemed to occupy an impregnable position, from which nothing but the thunder of the Almighty could dislodge him; a Cabinet, headed by a great orator and historian, though an impracticable statesman, enjoying the friend ship and support of its Sovereign, and commanding a perfectly servile cohort of Deputies in the Chamber. " The Opposition was in itself weak, but in the errors of their opponents they were mighty ; for the Cabinet of the 29th of October stood before the country con victed of corruption and servility; of alliance with abso lutism ; of opposing the liberal intentions of the Pope; of conniving with Jesuits to enslave Switzerland; of im pelling Ferdinand of Naples to resist the just demand of his subjects ; and, worse than all, of having, in their anxiety to curry favour with the dynasty, given way to every counter-revolutionary scheme of Louis Philippe. In Chapter 111. " the opening of the Chambers " (the last session of the Parliament of the French monarchy) by Louis Philippe, in person, on the 28th December, 1847, is described with graphic brilliancy. Chapter IV. glances at " the February sittings of the Chambers, and recounts very mi nutely " the preparations for the great Reform Ban quet.' Chapter V. begins the diary of the revolution with " Sunday and Monday, February 20 and 21 ;" Chapter VI., " Tuesday, February 22 ;" Chapter VII., " The night of the 22d and 23d ;" Chapter " The last night of the French Monarchy." Chapter IX. is an interpolation, detailing a " per sonal narrative." Chapter X. depicts " the fall of Louis Philippe." Chapter XI. gives a rather meagre outline of " the taking of the Tuileries." Chapter XII. details with a punctilious nicety " the last sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,,' a scene which Mr. St. John correctly declares to be " unparalleled in the history of any revolution." Chapter XIII. is another episode or "personal nar rative." Chapter XIV. records " the proclamation of the Republic." Chapter XV. pourtrays " the 25th of February." Chapter XVI. is devoted to a biographic epitome of the careers of Louis Philippe Franqois-Pierre Guizot, born 14th October, 1787—0 f Louis Adolphe Thiers, born 16th April, 1797—0 f Louis Mathieu /Mk, born in 1780—of Odilon Barrot, born 19th July, 1790 —and of Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, born in 1786. Chapter XVII. concludes the volume with eight very different profiles, namely, those of the Ministers of the Provisional Government-- Alphonse du Prat, after wards called Lamartine, born 21st October, 1790; Dominique Fra nqo i s A rago, born 26th February, 1786 ; Cremieux, Ledru Rollin?, Marie, Marrast, Flocou, Louis Blanc, and Albert. Here are a few anecdotes of the revolution, culled from the present volume, in consequence of their novelty and signifi- Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Baroness de Speth, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past twelve o'clock y es t er d ay, for Frograore House, Windsor. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia visited their Royal Highnesse s the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House. Mr. Scotland had an interview with Earl Grey yester day, at the Colonial -office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a committee meeting yesterday, at their office in White hall-place. SP ----- ORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Handicap Sweepstake s of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if declared; for three yrs ols, &c. Cambridge Course. (7 Subs., 2 of whom paid 5 sovs. each to the owner of the second horse.) Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 4 yrs, ist 71b (Pettit) 1 Baron R. Malt za h n ' s A rm i n, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ..• ••• 2 Lord Clifden's Mantilla, 3 yrs, sst 41b ••• 3 Mr. Roles The Cur, aged, 9st ••• ..• ••• 4 Mr. Shelley' s B a y onet, 3 yrs, Est ••• "' ". 5 Betting -7 to 4 agst Fistiana, and sto 2 each agst The Cur and Armin. The Cur took the lead at starting, and made running at a good pace to the turn of the lands, where he was passed by Fistiana, Mantilla, and Armin, the former leading; half-way between the Duke's Stand and home Fistiana and Armin joined issue, and ran a head-and head race to the cords, where the horse gave way, and the mare ran home a clever winner by a length, Mantilla a bad third. Run in 2 min. 8 secs. (This race came off immediately after a heavy storm of hail and rain.) Sweepstakes of 100 sous, each, h ft; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b each, &c. D.M. (9 Subs.) Colonel Anson's Backbiter (F. But ler ) 1 Lord Exeter's Swordpl ayer " • •• ••• 2 3 Colonel Peel's Se sos t r i s ( a ll owed 31 b) ••• ••• Lord Glasgow's Clerk of the Council ••• •" 4 Even on Sesostris, and sto 4 apt Backbiter. Back biter made all the running, and won cleverly by half a length, Sesostris a bad third. Run in 1 min. 42 secs. Match, 150 sovs ,50 ft. A.F. Duke of Bedford's Saddle, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (F. Butler) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Cecilia, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ••• ••• 2 9 to 4 on S a ddl e , w h o wa i te d i n t o th e cor d s , and won very easily by half a length. Run in 2 mins. 22 secs. The Column Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft; for three yrs old, colts, est 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. R.M. (26 Subs.) Mr. Adams's Ellerslie, Bst 41b (Wakefield) 1 Colonel Anson's Corsican, Bst 71b ... 2 Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, Bst 41b .. 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Lord Exeter's Swordplayer, Bst 71b 0 Lord W. Powlett's Jest, Bst 41b ••• 0 Colonel Peel's Jenny Lind, Bst 41b ..• ... 0 Colonel Peel's Teetotum, Bst 41b •••• • 0 Betting—E ven on C ors i can , G to 1 eget Ellerslie, 5 to 1 agst Jest, and 6to 1 agst Teetotum. This race admits of very little in the shape of description, Ellerslie having made all the running, and winning very easily by a length, Hornpipe a good third, and Swordplayer fourth. Run in 1 min. 47 secs. Match, 200, h ft. A.F. Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Gre vine's Geraldine, 7st 121 b—off by consent. Subscription Plate of 50/. T.Y.C. Lord Exeter's Bishop of Rosoford's Cob (Bartholomew) 1 Lord Stanley's Bowstring, 4 yrs ••• ... 2 Mr. Barnes's Sotterley, 3 yrs ... •.• 3 Mr. St. Aubyn's Julie, 5 yrs ... ••• ••• ... 4 5 to 1 on the Cob, and 7 to 4 on Bowstring. A splendid race between the first two was won on the post by a neck. Run in 1 min. 12 secs. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each; for three yrs old. T.Y.C. Mr. G. H. Moore's Wilmot, Bst 31b ... (Butler) 1 Sir G. Hawley's Lovelace, Bst 31b • 2 7t04 on Lovelace. Won by half a length. Run in 1 min. 20 secs. LATEST BETTING. CHESTER CUP. 14 to 1 agst War Eagle 17 to 1 agst Glen Saddel 25 to 1 agst Inheritress 30 to 1 agbt Lightning TWO THOUSAND 6 to 4 agst Blaze DIS 9 to 1 agst Springy Jack 0 to 1 agst Surplice 1 to 1 agst Glendower—t 3 to 1 agst Loadstone—t OA 40 to 1 agst The Magnet 50 to 1 agst Giselle—t 50 to 1 agst Sunnyside--t GUINEA. STAKES. 4 to 1 agst Flatcatcher tint'. 17 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume 28 to 1 agst Swiss Boy 50 to 1 apt Sponge 10 to 1 agst Lola Montes 16 to 1 agst lodine 15 to 1 agst Queen of the 16 to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth May 20 to 1 agst Prairie Bird ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Subscription Plate of 50 sovs. P.M. Mr. J. S. Douglas's Sam Hood, 3 yrs Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Black Ball, 3 yrs Mr. Lowther's Black Doe, 3 yrs Mr. Hussey's Embrace, 3 yrs Mr. Francis's Nautila, 4 yrs Sir J. Hawley's Millwood, 4 yrs Lord Orford's Craftsman, 4 yrs Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 4 yrs Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 4 yrs Mr. Hargreirre's No go (late Crim. Con.), 6 yrs Handicap of 20 SOTS. each, &c.; for four yrs old, &c. A.F. Mr. Barnes's Tutthunter, 4 yrs Lord Clifden's Sagacity, 4 yrs Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 4 yrs Mr. Payne's Marquis of Conyngham, 5 yrs NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 11 O'CLOCK. TWO TIOUSAND GUINEAS STASES. 6 to 4 agst Blaze I 4 to 1 agst Flatcatcher—t. CHESTER CUP. i a Sir Peter ) 1 agst War E ag l e 40 to 1 agst M agne t 1 agst Glen Saddl e 50 to 1 not Giselle 1 agat Inheritr ess 50 to 1 git 1 agat Lightnin g — t Laurie—t 50 to 1 a gs t Sunnyside—t. DERBY. 1 agst Sprin g y J ack 18 to 1 agst Eag l e ' s Pl ume 1 agst Surpli ce 28 to 1 agst Swiss B o y co 1 agst Glendower —t 50 to 1 agst Sponge 3to 1 agst Loadstone—t 50 to 1 agst Coma 50 to 1 agst Rosalyn. The Handicap S weepstakes for Thursday i s no race . CHELT ENHAM STEEPLE CHASES —TUESDAY. Handicap Sweepstak es o f 20 sovs. each, 10 f t, &c., with 100 added. F our m il es . Mr. Storey's Standard G uard, 10st 121 b (T a ylor) 1 Mr. Kitten's Link Boy, 9 st 51b ........................... 2 Mr. Brown's Dubious, lOst 101 b ........................... 3 All ran but P u ll away, Beltshazzar, the Dov e and Gayhurst. Sweepstakes of 5 soy& each, with 30 added. About three miles. (17 Subs.) Mr. Davenport's Thurgarton (Archer) 1 Mr. 011iver's Vanguard 2 .................................. All started but Redshank. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, and 20 added; 12st each. Three miles Mr. Brotheridge's Free and E ........... 1 asy 2 Mr. Hawkina's Dursley .......................... Mr. W. Arkell's Conrad ...................................... 3 Match -100 s . ..... ..• • . Four miles. Captain Little's Pull (olliver) 1 Mr. Stuart's The Dandy .................................... 2 13 to 17 to 25 to 30 to 9 to 0 to a of THE LATE EXTENSIVE FIRE IN TH E CITY.— Yesterday afternoon M r . W. P ayne , the City Coron er, and a numerous jury, assembled - t the Cross Set's hotel, Gracechurch-street, fo r the purpose circumstances connect e d w i th the late d es tructive fire which occurred upon th e prem i ses of M r . Gladwell, carver and gilder, No. 21, in th e same stree t. The jury re turned a verdict that " Th ere was not su fficient evidence i nq uiring into the to prove how the fire originated, but they believed it was purely accidental." TIIE CONWAY Tung.--The Conway tube , weigh ing 1,300 tons, was raised 14 f ee t o n Idonday morning, during a storm of hail. Only t e n men were employed in the operation, and the presses were found to a n swer admirably. The rising was at the rate of twelve feet per hour. The operation was conducted by Mr. Edwin Clark, assistant engineer to Mr. Robert Stephenson, at Conway. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL—At 11 Court of Governors of Christ's Hospital, held on Tuesday, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred was appointed a Gover nor. Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to transmit to the hospital a don ation of 5001. on behalf of the youthful Prince, with the expression of her wish that he should be appointed a Governor, in a letter written by Mr. G. W. Anson to Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon, the treasurer, from which the following is an extract:— " I am authorised by the Qu een to announce to y ou tha t it is her Majesty's wish that his Ro y al Hi g hness Pr ince Alfred should become a G overnor of that ex cellent institution of Christ's Hosp ital. Her Ma j es ty most highly appreciates the benefi ts which Christ's Hospital ninterest which confers throughout the cou ntr y , and is glad of eavperrt y o op a r p e o p r l t y: un followingit y . . o fThe passage marking Governors tfrom o her a t h s sense have e vd edo address ar i e ca t s a value. eoifv etdh e ' w ' Governors in peculi ar n We giv e th e approba tion pleasur efavour,t hi s i additional n asln oh mark aa of your tin Majesty'sued the continued your Majesty takes in the welfare of the school of Christ's Hospital affords to the country and to the world a pledge and assurance of the anxious desire of your Majesty to foster and extend the blessings of a sound, moral, and religious education to the poorer classes of your Majesty's subjects, which fits the objects of it for the business of life and prepares them to be useful mem bers of society, to be good men and loyal subjects. The Governors desire to express their ardent hope that your Majesty may live long in the enjoyment of health and happiness, to continue to Christ' s Hos pital the benefit of your exalted patronage, and to the Unite d Kingdom the blessings of paternal governm ent." Th ere are now five members of the Royal Fam il y Gover nors of Christ's Hospital—her Majesty, Prince Albert, th e P r i nce of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince George of Cambridge. SUPPOSED SHIPWRECK OF THE SHIP EWART. A plank has been thrown on the beach in the Bay of Dinan, near Camaret, on which the name Ewart is written in gold letters. It is supposed to be the wreak of an English ship, lost in the storm of the 26th of February. TH E POSTMAN B R ADLEY...—The Lords Commis sioners of her Majesty's Treasury have, upon the recom mendation of the Postmaster - General, granted Br a dl ey , the letter-carrier who was so brutally treated in Mitre court, Wood-street, some time ago , while in the execu tion of his duty, the sum of 100 L per annu m f or h i s life. Bradleyoia au p er w an il ia l u re sti ce o i a re a the llow a a n m a 0 7 li n et hayingquar terlybeen in discharged from future duty. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, lB4B . " Have you no printed copies?' exclaimed many. " They are all exhausted,' said another, 'they were printed in the night. We did not expect such a de mand.' " Will the Reforme appear to-morrow ?' "' I know not. I believe the writers will be too much engaged.' " I believe them, for from the lead of a j ourna l w i t h scarce enough abennes to keep it alive, th e y have, by a bold stroke, attained to the lead of a nation. Fer dinand Flocon is one of the Provisional Government." Two of the subordinate actors in the Revolution of February must not be overlooked, namely, the work man (THEODORE Six, a carpet maker) who by a burst of rude eloquence preserved the works of art in the Chambre des Deputes from destruction, when the people were firing bullets into the great painting of "Louis Philippe swearing obedience to the Charter"—and the English compositor (GEORGE GooD, formerly a working printer on an establishment in London), who was shot through the breast while cheering the combatants on to the assault upon the Palais Royale. Two engrav ings are prefixed to the volume—one a wretched caricature of the noble countenance of Lamartine, the other a beautiful sketch of the sinister visage of Guizot. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO LORD HARDINGE. At twelve o'clock this day a Special Court was held in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the purpose of presenting Lord Hardinge, K.O .8., with the freedom of the City of London. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen wore their scarlet, and the Common Councilmen their maearine gowns. As soon as the Lord Mayor had taken his seat his Lordship was introduced by Mr. R. L. Jones, and was accompanied by the Livery of the Merchant Tailors' Company. The Chamberlain read aloud the resolution unani mously come to by the Court of Common Council, that the freedom of the city, enclosed in a gold box of the value of 100 guineas, should be presented to Lieutenant- General Lord Hardinge, K.O .8., for the distinguished talent and the energy he had displayed in the administra tion of the resources of the British dominions in India and for the gallant manner in which he had conducted the operations of the army under his command in the battles of Sobraon, &c., fought on the 21st and 22d of December, and for the (example of ;determination which :he had exhibited to the soldiers under his command on these trying days. The Noble Lord was then formally presented with the freedom of the City, and installed a member of the Mer chant Tailors' Company. The usual oaths having been administered; and Tht CnANDERLAIN having addressed his Lordship in a complimentary speech, Lord HARDINGE, who read his address, said that, in receiving this token of the approbation of the Corpo ration which represented the freemen of the metro politan city of the empire, he was deeply sensible of the honour which had been conferred on him, and felt correspondingly grateful for the :obliging manner in which that honour had been conferred upon him. It wns a source of gratification to him that the manner in which he had conducted the government of India had received the approbation of his Sovereign and of his country, and he was glad to say that in his experi ence the soldiers of the empire bad maintained in India the reputation which they had in so many fields acquired. His Lordship then briefly referred to the transactions in the Punjaub, and in conclu sion, expressed his firm conviction that the sol diers would ever be found enlisted on the side of good order, and, in connexion with the citizens of this coun try, would, by their exertions, preserve entire the laws of the country and the stability of the Government. Mr. H. L. JONES proposed, which was seconded and carried, that the address be placed on the records of the Corporation. THE PATRIOTIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.----(THIS DAY.) A meeting of nobleme❑ and gentlemen interested in the objects of the Scottish Patriotic Society was held this day, at the Freemasona"ravern, Great Queen-street, for the purpose of hearing the report of a deputation from the parent society in Edinburgh. The CHISHOLM, who occupied the chair, explained that the association was originated for the purpose of improving the condition of the Highland peasantry by encouraging a better class of cottages, and habits of cleanliness; and also introducing an improved method of agriculture, particularly of spade husbandry, on the system so extensively practised in Belgium and other continental countries. The present mode of " croft " cultivation was barbarous in the ex treme, and therefore the landlords of Scotland, with the view of improving the condition of the crofter, had formed themselves into the Scottish Patriotic Society. There was present a deputation from Scotland, who would explain to the meeting the progress already made and the success which had attended the efforts of the the Association. Mr. BOND, the Secretary, then explained in detail that to which the Chairman had only shortly referred. The object of the present meeting was to found a branch society in London in connexion with the pre sent Association in Edinburgh. Dr. M'KENZIE adduced much interesting information with respect to 600 improved (five-acre farms (which were cultivated on Belgian agricultural principles) at Gairloch, in Ross-shire. These he persoaally superin tended, and the result was most satisfactory. He augured the greatest good to the Highlands of Scotland from the efforts of this society. Resolutions were afterwards moved, seconded, and adopted, pledgimg those present to support the institution, and to use their best endeavour to extend its benefits by presents of seeds, and contributions in money. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each. D.M. Corsican... ... ... ... . C by Don John, out of Impertinence Won in a canter. .....—.• Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each. D.M. ......... Hornpipe ... ••• Keraun ... • • ... ••• ••• Hecuba ... ••• ... ... ... Won in $ cantor. ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 Count Pompee Troili, Guard Noble of his Holiness Pius IX., is just arrived in London from Rome. The Countess de Landsfeldt (Lola Montes) arrived on Friday last from Geneva at Berne. THE IRON TRADE.—WOLTERHAMPTON, WIRD NESDAY.—To-day the second of the quarterly meetings of the ironmasters of this district was held at the Swan Hotel, in this town, and was well attended. There were, however, few orders in the market, but the general be lief was, that the prices of the last quarter would be maintained. The meeting to-morrow at Birmingham will be decisive, as it is in that town the confirmation of previous arrangements take place. THE BUTCHERS OF LONDON AND THE ABATTOIR BILL —A dinner was given last evening at the London Tavern by the principal butchers of the metropolis, to celebrate their successful opposition to the " New Smith field Market and Abattoir" Company Bills. The com pany included many of the gentlemen who had opposed the Bill in the House of Commons, namely, Mr. Lush ington, Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. George Thompson, Mr. Warrington, and Mr. Wyld. THE SURVEYORS' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was held last night in the Freemasons"favern, in Great Queen-street,.Liccoln's Inn-fields, of civil surveyors, for the purpose of forming an association to consist of the civil surveyors of England. Mr. Clout was called to the chair. The rules and all the necessary forms for con- TROOPS FROM LONDON . - - Th e 2d were duly adopt e d. t ba i t t t u a t l i i n o g n DEPARTURE t o h f e t ''( he i G eOt r wy enadier Guards and the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, which came to town on Sa turday evening last for the preservation of the pea ce , return to their respective quarters this day ; th e first mentioned, to Chichester and the other to Windsor. KINGSTOWN, MONDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate Amphion, of 32 guns, arrived at Kingstown thi s d ay. The Cork pilot on board mistook Howth for Bray Head, and was taking the vessel to the northward, when she came up to the Dublin pilot boat on the north cruise, and she was directed to the right course. Her MajestYs steamers Dragon and Medusa are also in harbour. MAGAZINES, ..,c.—(CONTINUED. DOMBEY AND SON. By Charles Dickens. Sorrowfully do we close the double number (XIX. and XX.) of "Pombey and Son" just published. Our regret is not an affectation. We are neither writing the balderdash of compliment nor the hyper boles of panegyric. An old friend has left us—the voice of a dear favourite is silent— " Dombey and Son" is completed. Heartily do we regret this, for this true English story-book, which has appeared from month to month, with its chequered incidents, its exquisite and touching pathos, its fre quent, spontaneous, and fantastic merriment, its occasional grotesqueness, its pervading loyalty to the natural, the true, and the beautiful, its home-touches, its gleams of satire, its erotic benevolence, its unforced philosophy, and, above all its many, strange, original, life-like, and admirable characters—the true English story, we say, in which all this has been lavished with the abundance of a fruitful but untutored genius, has imparted so much zest to every successive interval in the course of its publication, has scattered, as it were, such sweet flowers upon the dusty path of life, while Time has been rolling us all onward to Eternity, that we should be ungrateful were we not to lament its ter mination. We do regret it—thoroughly. That Mr. Dickens can sympathise in this feeling we know from his books. Their closing sentences are generally dictated in a mood of sadness and lamentation. As he himself has happily expressed it in I one of his brief but suggestive introductions, the author, like a dejected host, is fain to loiter upon the threshold even when he has dismissed his guests, and s hade , the l as t of them farewell. In " Dombey and a :g n u ' i for an e :e a nl w p i t he 't w he e d a i r ff e er lo e a n t t h t r o ea i t m io a n g s in i e n t t h h a e t our acquaintan6 with the different creations in the vo lume has terminated. Captain Cuttle, either as "Ed'ard Cuttle, Mariner,s "the lives at at home at ease," or simplya with the instrum en t," i n allusion to 7iisgee resigned is n not exactly the man w h ose f r i endship can b roo hck without a sigh. Maj or Bagstock again,‘g, sto, and tough, old J. 8., Sir, Josh, Joseph, j.i Joe 8.," or whatever abbreviation he might please to call himself by in his delightful spirit of egotism, is one of those abominable beings one regards with a I sort of contemptuous affection such we ourselves well remember to have experienced towards Daniel Quilp. Mr. Toodle, the stoker, " all cindery and swarth ;" Polly Toodle, otherwise Mrs. Richards, hi s better-half, in her way a hind of middle-aged Mrs. Nubbles ; and even that precocious imp the Biler, or the Grinder, the first-born of their large family of Toodles—are all such truthful specimens of our labouring classes as not to be abandoned wil lingly or forgotten very speedily. Then, more over, there is Towlinson, whose ambition is to set up in the green-grocery line, and whose parti cular antipathy are foreigners. There is the Major's Oriental helot " the Native," described in the last number (page 51 . 9), as " living in a rainy season of boot-jacks and brushes." There is Mr. Morfin, whose performances on the violincello gave his deaf land lady only a " sensation of something rumbling in her bones." There is that grim and awful harridan, Mrs. Pipchin, with her partiality for sweetbreads and re lays of buttered toast, hot and hot. There is Dr. Blimber with his learned legs, like a clerical piano forte ; and Mrs. Blimber with her blue-stocking love for Cicero and Tusculum; and Cornelia Blimber, a very ghoul among dead languages ; and Mr. Feeder, 8.A., with his lierodotus and other stops—quite a barrel organ of erudition ! Then again, there is Carker, the manager—" deceased person with white teeth :" and Perch, the messenger, an oracle not on a tripod, but on a bracket; and Cousin Feenix, with his friend Shakspere—" man who was'nt for an age, but for all time." There is Mrs. Macstinger, of Brig-place, the lady who cooled her temper by inverting her young est born, Alexander Macstinger, so as to bring him within the range of a sharp battery of slaps. There is the oracular Bunsby, and Mrs. Mitt; with her mortified bonnet; and Susan Nipper, and good Mrs. Brown, and Lucretia Tox, and Mr. Chick, and Mrs. Chick, and Mrs. Skewton, and Cleopatra's page, commonly called Withers the Wan ; and Walter Gay, and Sol Gills, the instrument maker ; and there is Sir Barnet Skettles, and the weak-eyed young man at Dr. Blimber's, and Master Bitherstone, and poor Berry, and Diogenes, and Mr. Toots and the Game Chicken, and Alice, and Edith, and Mr. Dombey, and Flo rence, and little Paul Dombey ! Those, and there are thousands of them, who have, like ourselves, devoured the work bit by bit—familiarising them selves by long association with the every characteris tic of the ideal personages depicted in the narrative —and coming at last to regard with a sort of tender ness even the green covers of the monthly instalment, as being connected in some fashion with the joys and sorrows of the story, and by consequence with their own tears and laughter, will comprehend our regret at the dispersion of this imaginary multitude. It is not the least important or the least remark able among the numerous peculiarities of Mr. Dickens as a novelist, that he sketches a locality with as much vividness as a painter, and that he imparts to a fictitious being an absolute and visible individuality. The actors in his tales are no mere pasteboard fantoccini, moved by the threads of an ingenious plot, and coloured into the semblance of life by the lustre of his imagination— they are as actual as flesh and blood, as true as humanity, as filled with the heat of passion and as fraught with the vitality of sentiment as the creature modelled by the hand of Prometheus and warmed into animation by the fire stolen from the celestial laboratory. If there were nothing worthy of admiration in " Dombey and Son" beyond the passage descriptive of the death of Little Paul, it would from that solitary passage have been worthy of a dis tinguished place among the classic books of our national literature. In that exquisite chapter —.a chapter stamped with the golden seal of genius— Mr. Dickens altogether surpassed himself, he surpassed his plaintive sketch of Tiny Tim's death in the " Christmas Carol," and even that most beautiful, and, as we had once imagined, inimitable, incident in the " Old Curiosity Shop "-.-the death of Little Nell. We envy not that man who can read for the first time the account of the death of little Paul Dombey with a heart unmoved and an eye tearless. We can have no sympathy with each other —we are separated in disposition by a wall of brass.. . . Like m os t o f the preceding fi c ti ons of Mr. Dickens, " Dombey and Son" inculcates a great moral inferentially, and demonstrates the omnipotence of virtue by the transformation of a temperament. In this manner " The Christmas Carol" proclaimed anew those glorious tidings which were sung by angels in th e s k y on the eve of the first Christmas— Gloria in excelsis deo, et in terra par hominibus. Peace, goodwill, brotherly love, universal charity one towards another was the moral of that matchless book. " Martin Chuzzlewit" in a different way asserted the policy of gentle feelings for our neighbours. "Dombey and Son," upon a similar principle, shows the hol lowness of egotism and the misery resulting from the isolation caused by self-sufficiency. Ebenezer Scrooge is changed before the close of the volume from a miser into a philanthropist. Young Martin abandons his selfishness for gene rosity ; and Dombey, the great merchant, _ oin emergeshe towards the close of the present history r armour of his Pride, proving himself to be of a hearted, generous, gentle, loving nature. for enforcement of this beautiful dogmaofmeekness, are associated the eloquent revelations of love which with every fragment in reference to Florence, for For the child's death, in the pers o n of the bewitching delineation of a child' s life and the exquisite picture of a d son,, is assuredly the masterpiece of little Paul—" DombeyCharles is h os e t re elo is qu in en i t t and no l parallel passage, it w hich may i n the tower of Saint Paul' s tot Cathedral, tru an e, Dickens. h a t n "be found in one of the rand om and insulated chapters of Master Humphreys Clock." There are no separate paragraphs inspired with such rhetorical animation as those in " I3arnaby Rudge," where the murderer is scared by the ringing of the alarm-bell in the mansion of Mr. Hare dale, or where the populace are casting fresh fuel before the burning doors of Newgate. "Dombey an d Son" has no Dick Swivell er, lik e the " Old Cu riosity Shop ;" no Brothers Cheeryble, like " Nicholas Nickleby ;" no Sarey Gamp or Seth recksniff, like " Martin Chuzzlewit." It is inferior to " Pick wick" in point of sustained drollery, and to " Oliver Twist" in dramatic passion, and epic completeness. In the three particulars already specified, however, " Dombey and Son" sur passes every one of th e preceding compositions of Mt: Dickens; and in several of the minor parts it is cance :-- THE FIRST DREAM OF A REPUBLIC. " One, a warm enthusiastic Republican, said, 'Mon sieur, give me a round sum of money and a dozen reso lute men, and I will revolutionize Paris in one night.' I asked how. The sacristains of Paris, like the priests, re all Carlists. I would go round to them, and hold ing out hopes, that after a revolution Henry V. would stand a good chance if he had the friends he was as serted to have. I would beg or buy admission into every church in Paris. In each I would place one de termined man, who tonight, at midnight, should sound the tocsin, when all would be over; the rising would be general; every one would rush to arms, and before dawn Paris would bo ours. Bonjour, monsieur,' and the journeyman painter, who had been speaking, walked away, leaving me convinced of the deep-rooted hatred of monarchy which had put such notions into the people's minds." HEROIC DARING OF A GAMIN. " A formidable barricade had been erected. A com pany of soldiers of the line was ordered to take it by assault, when a lad of about fifteen, wrapping himself in a red cloth that served as a flag, flow to the top of the barricade, knelt down, and cried out, Fire now if you will!' The intrepid example of the gamin was imme diately followed by some men, who bared their brea s t s , and called on the soldiers to re on unarmed men. The soldiers raised their guns, and refused to fire, amid loud cries of Vice la ligne !" ONE OF THE BRAVE CHILDREN OF PARIS. " A child, one of these admirable enfans de Paris, of which this capital alone supplies a type, and which the people have baptized by the name of titis, flew about the Place, animating the people and provoking the sol diers. Etienne saw him alternately to his right, to his left, opposite him, and, despite the gravity of his per sonal situation, he admired, from the bottom of his heart, the careless courage, the bold heart of the heroic child, whose shoulder had been cut by a bayonet or a ball, whose shirt was all bloody, and who in the van, in the most perilous post, armed only with a sabre, and in a shower of balls, came to brave new wounds, or an almost certain death; and all this because he had heart; because the smell of powder was as a loadstone; because, in fine, he was an enfant de Paris!" SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PRINTING PRESS, " While I was reading, a friend tapped me on the shoulder. I turned round. It was a joyous Republican, who dragged me up the dark stairs of the house, and into the office of the Reforme. At a table sat six persons writing. They were surrounded by armed men, who cried aloud for copies of the list. The six men were writing, as fast as they could, the list, and handing it to anxious friends, who took copies, and hurried away to proclaim the names on the barricades. I asked for a copy. " ' One for the Place Vendome!' cried one. " One for the Hotel de Ville!' cried another. " Leave out that Marrast!' said a third, a short thick-set man, with a musket in his hand, I know him. It a perdu la Tribune.' " The men continued copying in the most imper turbable manner. " A Deputation from the Se c t ion of -,' said the doorkeeper, and 0119 of the six men rose to greet it. inimitably felicitous. Boxer is altogether eclipse_ by Diogenes ; and the description of railway tra novelist. veiling Captain is one of Cu t the l , e onesketches ofthe of v e o our best characters ever painted by him—a character t moreove r, happiest is which will after this occupy a prominent position in the Boa Gallery. Before we conclude our straggling but earnest notice of the work, we must transcribe a capital glimpse of every-day life, contained in the final number : it is the account of the auction at Mr. Dombey's private residence immediately after all his servants have departed : " The house stands, large and weatherproof, in the long dull street; but it is a ruin, and the rats fly from it. The men in the carpet caps go on tumbling the fur niture about; and the gentlemen with pens and ink make out inventories of it, and sit upon pieces of furniture never made to be sat upon, and eat bread and cheese from the public•house on other pieces of furniture never made to be eaten on, and seem to have a delight in appropriating precious articles to strange uses. Chaotic combinations of furniture also take place. Mat tresses and bedding appear in the dining-room; the glass and china get into the conservatory; the great dinner drawing -room vf , c n ei . s r s o e o t m; out s in o stair-wires , ihelroena, ma d e divan and heapstl a ie in et o the fa l s a e r e g a e , decorate the marble chimney-pieces. Finally, a rug, with a printed bill upon it, is hung out from the balcony; and a similar appendage graces either side of the hall door. " Then, all day long, there is a retinue of mouldy gigs and chaise-carts in the street; and herds of shabby vam pire 9. Jew and Christian, over-run the house, sounding the plate-glass mirrors with their knuckles, striking dis cordant octaves on the Grand Piano, drawing wet fore fingers over the pictures, breathing on the blades of the best dinner•knives ' punching the squab s o f c h a i rs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything. There is not a secret place in the whole house. Fluffy and snuffy strangers stare into the kitchen-range as curiously as into the attic clothes-press. Stout men with napless hats on, look out of the bed-room windows, and cut jokes with friends in the street. Quiet, calculatiag spirits, withdraw into the dressing-rooms with catalogues, and make marginal notes thereon, with stumps of pencils. Two brokers invade the very fire escape, and take a panoramic survey of the neighbourhood from the top of the house. The swarm and busts, and going up and down, endure for days. The Capital Modern Household 'tir aiture, &c., is on view. " Then there is a palisade of tables made in the best drawing-room; and on the capital, French polished, extending, telescopic range of Spanish mahogany dining tables with turned legs, the pulpit of the auctioneer is erected; and the herd of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, the strangers fluffy and snuffy, and the stout men with the napless hats, congregate about it and sit upon everything within reach, mantel-pieces included, and begin to bid. Hot, humming, and dusty, are the rooms all day; and---high above the heat, bum, and dust „ ... —the head and shoulders, and voice and hammer of the auctioneer, are ever at work. The men in the carpet caps get flustered and vicious with tumbling the Lots about, and still the Lots are going, going, gone; still coming on. Sometimes there is joking and a general roar. This lasts all day and three days following. The Capital Modern Household Furniture, &c., is on sale. "Then the mouldy gigs and chaise carts re-appear; and with them come spring-vans and waggons, and an army of porters with knots. All day long, the men with carpet-bags are screwing at screw-drivers and bed winches, or staggering by the dozen together on the staircase under heavy burdens, or upheaving perfect rocks of Spanish mahogany, best rosewood, or plate glass, into the gigs, chaise•carts, vans and waggons. All sorts of vehicles of burden are in attendance, from a tilted waggon to a wheel-barrow. Poor Paul's little &c..,,Aist inlartuirtseisofarleimgoovnale bedstead is carried off in a donkey-tandem. For nearly a whole week, the Capital Modern Household Furniture, of f house s traw but scattered leaves of .. catalogues, g s is l l . e t f te t r a e b d ou s t cr t a h p e s and hay, and a battery of pewter pots behind the ball-doer. The men with their screw- drivers and bed-w inches a r i p nn e dt t o -caps , gather shoulderup goes over the house as a last attention ; stick' them, and walk off. gentlemen .ll One of the in the windows respecting the lease of this in A g d t e u s l l ira b b i desirable family mansion, and shutting the shutters. he follows the men with the carpet caps. None of the invaders remain. The house is a ruin, and the rats fly from it.” As a pendant to our previous notices of the fiction, as it appeared in periodical instalments, we must ob serve that extraordinary changes are effected in the situation of the dramatis persona before its termina tion. Mr. Morfin marries Harriet Carker! Mr. Feeder marries Coraelia 131imber ! Captain Bunsby marries Mrs. Mac Stinger ! And Mr. Toots marries— Susan Nipper! ! Dombey himself is utterly beg gared, and the account of his desolation in the empty house, and of his ultimate reconciliation with Flo rence,.is wonderfully touching. Through the interven tion of Cousin Feenix, Florence and Edith are brought together again for an instant, and are then ♦ery un satisfactorily separated. At last the solitary bottle ,tf Madeira is broached, and the ruined merchant him self declares it to be " a very rare and most delicious wine !" Phiz has been singularly successful in the illustration of the volume, some of his etchings being really admirable. May his artistic powers be very speedily required again in the embellishment of some new creation of the genius of Charles Dickens ! TAI7: A very important subject is considered in the in troductory contribution for April—" The Wants of the Times." According as the political opinions of men are biased by education or circumstances those, wants would, of course, be very differently stated. A reasonable view, however, is taken of the neces sities of the age and the people by Tail—a view not unworthy o f it s established reputa tion. One John Wilmer reviews the condi ti on of the " German Colony in Texas," and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder concludes his wanderings along the pleasant banks of the Tyne. " Edinburgh Lodging-house Association " is an essay upon a scheme which has our cordial sympathies ; and "An Evening at Victor Hugo's ' is one of those agreeable chapters of literary small-talk which are more frequently met with of late in the pages of the popular periodicals, Bearing in remem brance the share taken in the Revolution of February , by Mr. Percy B. St. John, his tale of " Miranda has acquired esa aiditional attraction, for " Miranda " is a story of the first French Revolution. It is continued in the present number, with an increased vivacity of style. There is afterwards con tributed a certain strange narrative of a Portuguese conspiracy in the reign of Philip the Second; it is poetically entitled " A Star Shines through the Mist." Goodwin Barmby's biographic sketch of Louis Blanc—the historian of the " Reign of Ten Years," the annotator of the French Re volution, the bard of Mirabeau, the panegy rist of Manuel, the editor of the Bons Sens, the founder of the Revue du Progres, the contributor to the National, the philosophic author of the " Orga nization of Industry," and now President of the Commission for the Government of the Workmen of Republican France—the sketch of this remarkable man, we say, is clever. Here is hie portraiture " My first sight of Louis Blanc was at the palace of the Luxembourg. Voila la petite/ said a Frenchman near me, a s h e entered. He is, indeed, a little man, with a great distingue—a pigmy of price—a dwarf in body, but a giant in mind. He stands hardly four feet in height. His air, too, is extremely youthful, with his smooth, fair, hairless face, and his neat, slim, little figure. Although he approaches the manhood of forty, he might easily be mistaken for a boy of eighteen. Although he has a stern strength about him, it might be sup posedeffeminate. however, app earance that a s h o e ne was of Pro visional Government of the Republic of e F n r a a n if i e m , as. fi en rs t t ered, deliver addresses to assemblies of.nwohriksingn fir 'a ction of Pre sidentters, collected together by weak th the an to d d e on a plan for the Workmen, to consult and d ecid e spoke, and the working menorganisation of industry. H and the masters were of the Commission him, in Government of the soft and showery, or earnest moved. His tones were . buttoned up tight • With his little figure and energetic. buttons, there he stood, mounted in a blue coat with gilt were melted to tears, even expressive action. There he stood, modulated voice and great men who now the least of the though so small, not . of the France of the Third tho destinies rule over up, evidently awakening, c ovincing, deciding, with Revolution." October, Louis consequently in his 35th year. The de scription ; he is f his Itrst intro action to d t . the press of Paris scription o Blanc was born at Madrid, Ihith Here it is : is interesting. Ho returned to Paris in 11154, with letters of intro duction to Conseil, the collaborator of Armand Carrel in the National. But Conseil was like *lost Parisian j ß o ln u a re c a s o t u s h h t e hwimasfoery meraynwpdays withoutereandno success. A where. Louis t that time the National was published in the Rue Crois sant. One day, as the young author went for the tenth time to the offices of that journal, nearly despairing of ever finding the uncomeatable Conseil, he raised his eyes towards heaven, as if to call for it to witness the inutility of his efforts and perceived an inscription, bearing, in large letters, the words, Le Bons Sens. That journal was as advanced in the advocacy of reform as the Na tional, and Louis Blanc, having two a r ti c l es i n hi s poc k et , decided o n l eav i ng one for the Bons Sens. It was, how ever, no small matter for one so modest to meet the editor in chief. Just as he was about penetrating into his sanctuary, a species of involuntary terror pervaded his limbs. What shall I say ? ' thought my young look will go against me again. They will suppose my articles are not my own.' The perspiration stood upon his forehead. The door was there before him, and he had not the strength to open it. lie stood still in the passage without a d vanc i ng or rece ding. At length the door opened, an d h e f oun d hi m self face to face with a lie replied, seek the office porter. Who do you want?' said the porter. Louis Blanc was caught. Sir, ' a ' of the chi e f e d itor o f th e Bons Sens." Come with me I will l ea d y ou to it,' was the answer. Thus provi dence, Blanc. It was in despite of hi mse lf in th e s h a p e of a porter, played a great part in the destiny of Louis that he was conducted before MM. Rodde and Cauchois- Lemaire, then principal editors of the Bons Sens. M. Rodde received the young author with great affability, but id, Cauchois-Lemaire looked more grave. He has avowed since, that he hesitated to take as serious such „ 1 • precocious maturity. Tie could not for the moment be'l ~F i~„'