The Sun. — London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

take 251. ea c h 0 to appear at the Central Criminal Court 1. . ately his trial, and th e requ i re d suret i es b e i ng iminedi provided, he was liberated. __..Another prisoner was then brought up on a charge of fully damaging an ornament in the theatre, but as Z e _re was no one in attendance to prove the value of the vierty, the case= was adjourned. fe "Ines Crosby was c h arge d w ith d amag i ng a g il t fploon, forming part of the decorations of the theatre. mappeared that the pri s oner, in attempting to climb thepit to the boxes, l a id hold c f the festoon and r ed it down. !ht h eymons intimated that he was prepared to show at defendant was escaping from the violence of some persons in the pit. se r r ti __,* IiALL suggested that the matter should be "u; and, acting on this suggestion, the defendant *Lid the value of the ornament destroyed, and was dis veareed. 14QI NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, Th CITY, QUARTER TO TH li 1,..t. . 1 - 0 sales of C o tt on a t Liverpool yesterday were -.000 to 3 ,500 bales, all to the trade. Prices were rather 'Vier, the market being heavy. Railway Shares twere ii l ll!ti with b t little variation in prices. A moderate u its luesa was done. • '"*. statement of the Brussels banking establishments Ira the c i rcu l at i on of notes at 32,168,100 f rancs f rom 20 17 26 to June 10, and the discount operations at ~,,,,,997,834 francs. i we have been requested to state that the article which or e t r ed in last night's Sun, respecting an alleged de toliraiton of war against Spain, has given an inducement th.. zn ernhants connected with ' that country to withdraw W®-I Produce from the market. Thus some articles held for fuller prices, which yesterday morning Ze freely offered. t ia 'he Committee of Spanish American Bondholders the.% received a di scourag i ng commu nication from Peru, fGovernment of which has exhibited the greatest P ri ess, and has not even replied to the communications 14 Messrs. Maclean, Rowe, and Co. The Minister it lad um a, Mr. Adams, will be requested to interfere, and, eed, L or d Palmerston i s state d to h ave g i ven instruc ti°4,l to that eff e ct s ome time back. Complaints are made th. a o . ' t he Committee did not publish the communication me days back, when it came to hand. sh W _ e take from the American advices, received per "'shier, the following information upon financial Inatt er , : __ a : Nothing o f i n t eres t h as t rans pi re d i n o ffi c i a l or cora strre,ittil affairs during the past week. Operations in ie s - ' gs have been to a limited extent, but prices for th e er i al of the fancies have improved. Notwithstanding ea ,... arge shipments of specie, the money market is f..lTParatively easy, and no apprehension is at present fo `lt relative to the drain. It is utterly impossible to t 11 3,2 any opinion as to the prob a bl e e xtent of the ex w.sation of precious metals during the next month or e li ° 4 ,a 1 a portion of the shipments already eh. e has been on speculative account, for the pur ita-8e of merchandise in European markets, before any im p r ovement in the commercial affairs of the old world l e on uses prices for such articles as are adapted to the aareTtion of this country. Recent advices from Eng- C 'tate that large quantities of manufactures from the °Ninent have been sent across the channel for sale, r d the proceed s carr i e d b ac k in specie. This accounts the drain of specie from the Bank of England. b pec ulators in this country have not waited for ship agn° of European manufactures to this country, but , of Laken the specie and gone into the markets B o F r ance and Germany and purchased largely. 0p„„. 4311 ,g as we have the specie to spare, these th a ttons can be made very profitable, but if toe s hipments continue a panic will arise in this 4 3 : 11 tYY, and depreciate prices so that there will be no d ... t glt left for profits. There is, however, very little o,7ger of this, as the supply of specie here is much • 6 4.. 'eate r than is generally known. So far as the banks 4423 concerned they have nothing to brag of, but there is 4 i mmense amount of gold and specie in circulation, co a ting around th e country, which the banks have no thetrol over, and which tends, very naturally, to improve ~ value of the currency." letocks are very firm again, the increasing ease of the a ° ! l eY Market having the effect of supporting prices ittinst every other influence. The Bank of England, ~..ts fully expected, will make a formal reduction in its brisimurn rate of discount, and if the Parlour meeting reaks up sufficiently early, we shall communicate the : st ilt- Consols 'for July have been marked 83i to 831 • dividend. Th ere h ave b een no b arga i ns f or s p ec i a l ztr ansfer. Bank Stock is firm at 1921. The New Three l it Zlis -a-quarter per Cents. realise 841 to I. Exchequer have realized 425. premium. 13 There h as b een rat h er mo re activity in Foreign „ °l lk Spanish Three per Cents. have been at an ad vance to 22i and 23, and the Five per Cents. to 12k, b t ing fully recovered yesterday's depression. Portu- LVle Four per Cents. have been marked 16i to 17. 4 :Le'zicau Bonds have been 15 to /. Peruvian suffer from the advices received yesterday, being 30 to 30k. Grenada are 121. Dutch Two - and - a - Hall per Cents bring 421. ' Railway Shares are looking better again, although the market is quiet. • ONE CLOSING PRICES OF isItITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Rank Stock 192% 192 1 /0 8 per Cent. Reduced Arms ..... 83 4 1,44 834 New 3N( per Cent. Ann. 5...... . 84% lA% 84% LoitgAnns.to expireJan.lB6o B% 9-16 8 9-16 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... 8 4 84 India Stock _ India Bonds, 1,0004 Consols for Opening 2!.3 li thxd 83%xd Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,000/. _ ......-....... 5001. Small .. 42 p 39 p ONE CLOSLN , 'ien OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Brazilian Bonds - 66% Gjealada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 12% 12% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 1 5 44% 16 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 30% 30 30 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 1 6 14 17 17 B Panish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, A ccoun t l2th 12% Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 Der Cent 2 1 34 23 22% 22% Dividends on the above payble in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. , PRICES OF BUSINESS ' 4II AVAy SHAISEs PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK DONE . PRICES CLOSING . A berdeen . 50 ..... 4 nber., Nott., Boston, end Eastern Junction 3 1 4...... klr fa h . i . ,re and Galloway.. .2% li; las t ilk County Down 14 , A ...... -rningham and Ox tferd Junction .......20 I jeingham, 'Wolver- L.'enlpton, and Dudley 10 .. Ir fning,,W o l ver h' pton, 00.1 d Stour Valley 12/. 4s ... •••• ••• -- '"oitenhea d, Lancashire, 13 0 4t1 cl Cheshire Jung.... 7 3 4 —••• • • • • ..... • --- - .8 1 , Stamfd & Birm. 5 rlstol and Exeter ,;! U nto, Thirds ouc kingbanishire... 141 50 valedonian Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 1 4 — ~,Ditt o,Clydesdale June 50 'ilester and Holyhead... 42% — - D' itto Preference l5 C 1 Ditto— -Late/Ice 78!‘ Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 DO . 2 d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 1)0. Government Loan, 'J „. per Cent anet London & Ports Du blin 5 1 4 — t i,u blin and Belfast June. 27% u undalk & Enniskillen 17%....- East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ..-.. 6 3 A 6 3% Do., 18/., E. &1L... 18 Do. 31.105. EasternA Counties........ 20 ...... 14 1 / 8 1 4 1 4 14 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. Ditto,Extension,s per Cent., No. 1......6/. 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 ...... Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters .... Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class 13 (L & and B.) 17% Ditto, Class , ditto... 17%. .... Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 ...... . .... .. Ditto, ditto ... ......... 20 Ditto (C. & E.) gua r ' ~ 5 per cent............ 2% ....... e •ast Lancashire 25 __ Ditto, New ........ ..... 17 "'"' •••• ......... •• -- East Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 ...... ,--- • — Lincolnshire —... 20% ..... 20 % 20% k.d inburgh and Glasgow 5 0 ...• • _ Ditto Half Shares ... 1 5 .....• -- , _ Ditto Quarter Shares 12%.••-• di nburgh said Northern 25 ...... -- ........ — _ bitto, New 61,4...... ......... .....• Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New — 3 3 A...... .-... •-x.e ter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% ..... ......••• eat°, New 2% ..... ea gow, Dumfries, and Carlisl .81.65. 8d.... gla, e ..•• is.gew,Kilmar &Arso ~ y — I., i tto, New ... ..... —.. 40 ,uo.Preference Consol. 15 - — 6 'neat Northern (~.1)0.) London and York 2% — ••••• -- li ,eftt South. and West. , l kreland) - 230 w b e a.t North' of England.loo ......230 Ditto , New, 40/ l5 — 4-11DittttZ 'New,New 315011 30 — 11% ... - Dubtelli.itttttooNV: ;js!le.tfewnl-11arnes. 95i004:1:::: ......... 91-705 34.1 --9 I 5:: ! l e, X Shar es Ditt 1 till uddesfieltl iy_ .bitto, 9 lhirandscll4—an-c _ '.11)1 and Selby - IPt t° ' li alf Shares ... 25 ...... _ 1," e l I ° , 1 ,4 Shares ..... 12 1 / 2 51 b. aS ter and Carlisle... 50 ...... 51 ,it to, Thirds, lO 10 +.•an os , t , bir - ......... ...... Ditto 4.&t0 Yorkshire 93 ..... .1,), tt0, , __ ......... 56 1) 0 , Y.2 Shares ...... 43 ... .. 130 Quarter; Shares 171 13% 1 / 4 ... .• 13 I A ...• - /2 ...... _ • litths.. 7 (). . ......... *** 9 T,_. Thirdnths ....... .. O A 5% 1.c,.;;Z,.1\ewu5(t11a.te6g.)..... 1 , 3 . ~.... ............ —278 -,-',O. Liver per ct. 2yi ...... "itto 1, P• and Bury 43 Do. - r e a lle ld and Sheff.) 38 hk w.aaefield,Ponte --acL, am i ,_, , --"'" `. 400 40) ... 50 of frapj NTT N, LONDON', TIVETREIDAY itVPll4l.ll4rO. Do. (W. Riding Union) 6 .. m Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. 1 % Shares (A)... 9 Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 473 ...... Do., Half Shares 22 % .. .. Do., (blue) Scrip...... 2%..... _ - Leeds and Thirsk ...... 45 - Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. 31.% Liverp., Manchester, and Newcastle Junction... 2%.,.... London & Black wa11...13/. 68.8 d.... 4 3 / 43/4 Do. New, No. 2 . 61.138.41... Do. Extension ..... ... 22 1 ...... . . — London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. ConsoL Eighths. 40 — —•••• . — Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50 .. ... 44 Ditto. ditt0...... 1852 50 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... ... ..... Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17s 2d... London and N. Western 100 124 123 12 3 1 /2 Do. Quarters (L. & B.) 22 Ditto, New - ••• 3 % Ditto, Fifths ..... .. Do. 4W.Shares( L. M. )20 ...... Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7%....•. Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7% Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ... .. Lond. &S. W, stern Do. New 50/. ... ..... 42%.. Do. New 40/. 3l Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto .... .... 40 Ditto. Thirds lO ...... 7 VA 7% London, Salisbury, and Londonderry &Coleraine 27% --•••-......•• Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 ...... ... ..... .... . Lowestoft (4 per ct.) Ditto (6 ' p* ct.) Manchester,Buxton.and Matlock.... 4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo - ........ Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 ......... ... Ditty ditto (NO. 2)... 25 . Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 7% — ..... -... ••• Ditto, New 101. Pref... 7% Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 80 Ditto ditto . ......... 9 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire lO . ... Do., Grimsby Dock ls • Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. Manchest. & Southampt. 2% W ;dlana ... 100 ......101% 102 100% 100% Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares... 15 ... Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct. -.100 llB% 117% Ditto, Brat. & Glocstr. 36 ...... ..... ...... Ditto, ditto ......... 114 Bs. 6d... Ditto , Leieest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.100 Midland Great Western Irish 4O — Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlis1e...100 Do. Quarters 25 ..... .. — isT,:wmrk et & Chesterford 184 Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 ....•• Newry and Enniskillen 7 - Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 15 Norfolk .... ....... ....100 Du. New 20/. Do. Extension 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Nt,rthern Counties Union 4 — N orth British .. ..... ... 25 ...... Do. Half Shares 1 2 1,4...... ..... -.......— Do. Quarters 6% Do. Extension %....., ........ ..... . Ditto Thirds „.... 3 North & South-Western 2 ...... ••» — North Staffordshire 12%...... 10% ..... ...... .. 10 North Wales North Western. 7 % — ---..—•••• — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 45 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 7 1,4 Royston and Hitchin ... 1% Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto,New 12% ........ ••• Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (Nor. Div.) 7 Do. do. (Sou. Div.) 4 ...... ...... .. — Shrewsbury and Birni... 8 Ditto ditto, Class B. 5 ...... 1.:, 3 4 . l l4 Shrewsbury and Herald. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 .._.. .. .... Ditto Oswestry ...... 16 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref 8 Shropshirei Union auuth Devon 45 Do. Preterence South Staffordshire SI A2 — ...... ....... oath Eastern Do., No. 1 24 Do., N 0.2. - •• ...... .•.. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 25 Do., No. 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Don- caster, and tiioole Swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 6 ••• ...... ••• Taw Vale Extension ... 6 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17%..... Vale of Neath ... .. W aterford and Kilkenny 15%. ~... .. Waterford and Limerick 42% W aterfd, W itfrd,Wicklw, _ . . and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed . . . 42%...... Do. do. do. ... 25 E— Do. do. do. ... 7% .. ... W est Cornwall ..« oi hitehaven & Furness 11 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 94 ...... W ilts, Somerset, & W ey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. •••• ... ..... 4.«. 25 ... . . .•-• - Do. Original New and Berwick .. Do. Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. ..... ... 10 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ...... 9 York and North Midland 50 Ditto,Yreference ...... 10 Do.liast and W est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 16 ...... ... Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley... Direct Bombay and M a dras Dutch Rhenish .e 7%..... :ri, ...... •••• .. % East Indian VA ...... - .... • Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Austrian.... 4 Louvain a, la Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg Madrid and Valentia... 2 ..... Namur and Liege lB ... .. ........ -•••••— Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 41354 d...... Paris and Lyons ll ..... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ......... 20 ... - 15% . 1 5 34 Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 ••• ••• ...... Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... ... Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes 8 Tournay, J urbise, Lan- _ _ den, and Hassell ..... 16 — West Flanders liq .• •.. - - JOINT STUCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 •••••• 7%1A 8 . ••••••••• 7 1 A Union of Australia BANK of ENGLAND.—(THIS DAY.) CITY, THREE O'CLOCK. The rate of discount at the Bank of England has been reduced from 4 to 3} per cent. LLOYD'S SHIPPING --(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind E.N.E., light.breeze. and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14.—S1d. Sir Robert Peel, New York. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—The Larne ' Nickels, New Orleans, which was on shore yesterday in the Victo l channel, came off on the flood very leaky, on the bank alongside the Albert dock, where a she is laid on 'd dis charging. A large ship was seen on shore near the Towsey Rocks, off Cape Florida, 22nd May, which ap parently had just gone on. Two ships were seen insid e tn Florida Reef, ,ar Indian Key, 15th ult., apparently at anchor, with wreckers near them. The British brig Brothers was wrecke bar b don the ar at Tampico, previous to 21st May. Abarque was run on shore on Apple Island previous to 23d ult. The Princess, Newton, from Dublin to St. John's, New Brunswick, struck on Cape Sable, 20th ult., and was totally wrecked ; crew and materials saved. The Crantott, Cooper, from Lon don to St. John's, New Brunswick,w as wrecked near Cape Negro, 21st ult. ; crew and materials saved. The John St. Barbe, Lyon, of Milfor d, from Porthcawl to Liver pool, with iron, struck on the North Bank yesterday, and sank ; crew saved. LYTTIAM, JUNE 14.—The sloop Alice, of Conway, was driven on the Horse Bank th is morning, and will Probably become a wreck, as it is b lowin g hard, with a very heavy sea ; crew saved. ABERDOVEY, JUNE 13.—The sloop Catharine, Mor gan, and Lively, Hughes, discharged their cargoes (limestone) yesterday on Booth beach, and were driven on Nice sh p. River. shore to-day, is day, two miles !.iouth of the Dovey ItsriAcostnE. J UNE b l3 lo . wi r i l ig he a ,gale from James, fromom W.N.W. Bristol to Dartmouth, drove on t ho rock s at the en trance of this harbour t o -d ay , b u t was hove off with assistance, and has sustained no dana age. SCILLY, JUNE 12.—The cargo of the Fan:aliens Nils, R . ouge, from Christiana t o M a l aga,, w hich was assisted into St. Mary's pier full of water, :A ter having been on shore, has been discharged. DUNGENESS, JUNE 12.—Sid. Eleanor, Barbadoe S. DEAL, JUNE 14.—Winci S.E. to E.—Arrivcd frnn, t),e River ands riled, John Bartlett, Woodward, Adelaide, South Australia; Tartar, Harvey, Hong-Kong; Surge, Maurice, ditto ; Sir Robert Sale, Brown. Tatecoreen ; Hebrides, Melville, Bombay; President, Mellish, Aden; Cambria, Shaddiek, Quebec. Sid. Agincourt, Sydney, New South Wales ; New Zealand, Ceylon ; Ethelred, Sierra Leone; Victoria, Valparaiso. Part of a wreck, apparently belonging to a ship of 400 tons, with lower masts standing, painted white with the top rim black, yards painted black and white, was passed 29th ult., lat. 41 6 N, long. 11 W, by the Caroline, Dent, arrived in the Downs. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.; MEAT MAREETS. SOUTUALL, JUNE 14.—Our market was well supplied with each kind of sock to day. Generally speaking, the demand was heavy, at drooping prices Beef, from 34 to 4s; Mutton, 4s to 4s 10d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s Ed; and Pork, 4s to 4s Gd per 81bs to sink the offal. ROMFORD, JUNE 14.—We had a very inactive demand for each kind of stock, the prices of which had a down - ward tendency. Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 4s to ss; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 24s ; Quarter old store Pigs, 18s to 225; and Mikh Cows, with their small Calf; 14! lOs to 171 each. LEWIS, JUNE 13.—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 4s to ss; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 6d per Blbs. A fair average supply and a heavy dtmand. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. We had a very inactive demand to-day. and prices were with difficulty supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 6,1; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per Blbs, by the carcase. HAY MARKETS. SMTCHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 lOs ; Clover ditto, 3/ 18s to 41125; and Straw, 115 s to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 3/ 12s; Clover ditto, 4l to 4110 s; and Straw, 116 s to 11 lOs per load. Trade dull at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadew Hay, 31 to 31 10s; Clover ditto, 4l to 41 128 6d; and Straw, 116 s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull. COAL MARK E' Bate's West Hartley 15s Od Buddle's W. Hartley 15s Od Carr's Hartley Chester Main l3s 9d Davison's West Hartley 15s Od Dean's Primrose East Adairs Main l2s 6d Hasting's Hartley lss 0 Holywell Main . ..... 14s 6 Ord's Redheugh South Peareth Walker's Primrose West Wylam Wall's End, &c Bewicke and Co. Gosforth . Hedley Hilda l4s Od Killingworth 133 9d Walker ...... l4s Od W harn cliffs Eden Main Belmont lss Os Braddyll's Hetton lss 6d .-1 ESTE RDAT. dell Haswell l6s 9d Hetton Keepier Lambton lorrison l4s Od Stewart's Caradoc lss 3d iCassop. ... . Hunwick ......... 12s 9d Kelloc l4s 9d South Hartlepool Cowndon Tees Denison Tees West Cornforth West Tees l3s 6d West Hetton l4s 6d Derwentwatcr Hartley 14s 9d Howard's W. H. Neth lss Od Hartley Powell's Duffryn Stm l9s 6d Sidney's Hartley Ships at msrket 151. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN for the Week ended June 15,1848, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Enland and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. BEANS. PEAS. PRICE • . 147 s 8d 1 31 $ 7 d ' 20s 9d I 28s 01 I 38s 4d 37s Od DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. BARLEY. I OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS. 2s Od 23 6d I 2s Od I Is Od 2s Od WHEAT. 9s Od SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON RACES.7—WEDNEsDAY. There was nothing particularly inviting in the card for the first day; indeed, in that essential to small meetings, quantity, it was sadly deficient, and so little pains had been taken to make the public acquainted with its merits, that the attendance, fine as the weather turned out, was very thin. If; however, we cannot congratulate lessees upon their exertions to promote sport, we must give them credit for two or three decided improvements on the course. In the first place, they have, with much judg ment, placed the weighing-booth immediately above and on the same side as the betting-stand; it is consi derably enlarged, and being enclosed offers every facility for the transaction of business. The betting-stand is now one of the most convenient we have seen at a minor meet ing; the steps are carried down to the ground, and it has the long wished-for accomodation of an enclosure, not a very extensive one , but qu ite lar g e enou g h fur the pur pose. We hail these, and some other improvements of less consequence, as evidences of a better spirit than has been shown of late years in this quarter, and shall be glad to have an opportunity of announcing the inten tions of the powers that be to place the meeting in other respects on a better footing; there is much room for amendment. We subjoin an outline of the racing, which it will scarcely be credited, was over before five o'clock. The bill of tare for this day comprises the Queen's,Plate and two other races in heats, the Claremont Stakes for two year olds, and the Scurry Stakes, gentleman riders; there will be enough and to spare, and in order to get through it by daylight the first start will be at one o'clock precisely. The Railway Plate of 20/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each; three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 10lb; five, 9st 31b; six and aged, 9st 71b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 2001. Heats, once round and a dis. (6 Subs.) Mr. Death's Lady Frances, 3 yrs (Wakefield) 2 1 1 Lord Strathmore 's Tit-bit, 5 yrs ... 1 2 2 Mr. Smith's br gby Carew, 3 yrs ... - ... 3 0 0 Mr. I)rewitt's Blind Hookey, aged 0 0 0 Mr. Nicoll's Moscow, 5 yrs 0 0 0 The first heat was won by half a length, the second by two lengths, and the third in a canter. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 20 sous. each; 10 ft, and 5 ft only if declared, with 50 added; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (27 Subs., 20 of whom declared.) Mr. Ewbank's Louisa Newell, 4 yrs, 7st (Longstaff) 1 Mr. E. R. —'s Self-Defence, 3 yrs, sst 101 b ... 2 Mr. Shelley's Tarella, 4 yrs, 7st 6lb 3 Count Bathyany's Master Stepney, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ... 0 Sir H . Fleetwood's Forest Flower, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ... 0 5 to 2 agst Self-Defence, 3 to 1 agst Louisa Newell, 3 to 1 agst Forest Flower, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Louisa Newell made all the running, followed alternately by Forest Flower, Tarella, and Master Stepney, till near the distance. Self-Defence then went up to her, and they raced home together, the mare winning by a head; Tarella a bad third. Run in 3 min. 56 sec. The Corinthian Stakes of 10 sovs. each; 5 ft, and 25 added. Once round and a distance. The winner to be sold for 2001., &c. (11 Subs.) Mr. Elwes's Mountain Dew, 4 yrs, lOst 101 b (Owner) 1 Mr. Clifton's Valiant, 5 yrs, list 81b... ... 2 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. &vine's Kimblesworth, 4 yrs, lOst 71b 0 Mr.'Ricardo na Holloa, 3 yrs, 9st 0 Lord Suffield no, Guaracha, 5 yrs, llst 31b 0 Mr. Hobson's Ipecacuanha, 5 yrs, llst 21b 0 Mr. R. Lawley's Alkali, 6 yrs, list 91b 3 to 1 each agst Kimblesworth, Guaracha, and Holloa, 4to 1 agst Mountain Dew, and sto 1 agst Valiant. A very close race between Mountain Dew, Valiant, and Kimblesworth; Mountain Dew, who made all the running winning by a head, Guaracha a bad fourth. Lord Strath more, who rode Valiant, thought he had won, and many in the stand were of the same opinion; those, however, who were stationed immediately behind or opposite the chair spoke to the correctness of the decision, and we have no doubt it was right. Run in 2 min. 17 secs. BETTING ON THE COURSE. GOODWOOD STAKES. Even on the field ogst 20 15 to 1 agst Chat-20 tol t 15 to 1 agst Diplomatist—t 115 1 to 1 agst Crozier-2 0 to 20 to 1 taken DERBY. 30 to 1 agst c out of Alice 40 to 1 agst Montague H aw thorn's dam 50 to 1 agst Pelham 30 to 1 agst Uriel NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. Queen of the May is declared not to start. MANCHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Wilton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 40 added One mile and a half. (6 Subs.) Mr. Meeson's Dart, 6 yrs ... ...(Whitehouse) 1 Mr. Lillie's Great Western, 3 yrs ... ... 2 Mr. Meiklam's The Spaniard, 3 yrs ... ... 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Great Western, sto 2 sgst Th e . Spaniard, and 3to 1 agst Dart. W on cleverl y . Run in 2 min. 52 secs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 50 added; for two yrs old colts, Bst 51b; and fillies, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. (18 Subs.) Mr. Green's Cigarette ... Mr. Hesseltine's Quiver Sir J. Gerard's Mars Mr. Dawson's Priestess Mr. Copeland's Clothworker sto 4 agst Quiver, and sto 2 agst Cigarette. Won in a canter, Time, 1 min. 21 secs. The Manchester Tradesmen's Cup of 300 soya., added to a Handicap of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 tt only if declared; the second to receive 501. Two miles and a dis. (86 Subs., 26 of whom declared.) Mr. Green's Swiss Boy, 3 yrs, sst 51b(Winteringham) 1 Mr. Harrison's Peep o'Day Boy, 4 yrs, 7st 81b ... 2 Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Hylda, 4 yrs Sir G. Armytage's Best of Three, aged, 7st, bolted. 3tol on Peep o'llay Boy. Won by two lengths. Plate of 601.; for horses that never won 501. Heats, two miles and a dis. Lord Chesterfield's Alpheia, 3 yrs (G. Oates) 1 1 Mr. Foster's Josephine, 5 yrs ... ••• ••• 3 2 Mr. J. Thompson's br cby Morning Star, 3 yrs.. 5 3 Mr. Key's Reliance, 6 yrs ... . . ... 6 4 Mr. Buckley's Harry, 5 yrs ... ... 2 dr Mr. Dawson's Shy lock, 4 yrs ... ... 4dr (Winteringham) GRAY'S-INN.—LEGAL EIAMINATION.—At a 1111- merous meeting of the bench, and members of the :oeiety, and of the other Inns of Court, assembled in Gray's-inn llall, the following gentlemen were con sidered to have highly distinguished themselves in the oral and written examinations for honours, in the law of real property and conveyancing, on the 7th June last, and were classed in the following order—viz:— Mr. Wm. Augustus Clark, Middle Temple „ Mr. Edw. Harrison, Middle Temple Mr. John Lucie Smith, Middle Temple ... 2 Mr. John Brewer, Middle Temple 3 lEq. Mr. Samuel Scott, Lincoln's Inn The Right Rev. Doctor Cantwell, Bishop of Meath, has sent in his adhesion to the Irish League. BULWER LYTTON'S NEW WORK. HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAX t; KINGS. 3 Fels. By Sir Eduard 13ulwer Lytton. Another work from' the pen - of X:rontticist so dis tinguished in our national literature as Sir Edward Buie er Lytton is welcomed by us with all the cor diality awarded to an old favourite. We will not affect an indifference %%hid) we do not feel,—we will not disguise the sentiments with which we opened the first volume of " Harold,"—we will not conceal when i t s h m e , wor k we are wasthe fact that w e were pred i spose d to b e gra tifi e d perfectlyfirs t a announced wareis sa altogether publication. tor w or worth h Criticism, less unless guided by the most profound impartiality. To be entitled to any consideration whatever, to ren der his praise or his blame of any (even the smallest) importance, the critic must be uninfluenced by emo tions whether o f p art i a li ty or pre j ud i ce; b e mus t b e as unimpassio ne d as truth, as ruth l ess as d ea th, as implacable, as i mpassa bl e, and as pitiless as the Gre cian Nemesis. C onsc i ous as we are o f thi s neces sity, and solicit ous as we are that our op i n i o n should not be regarded as worthless, we, nevertheless, ac knowledge at once that before a syllable of the narra tion under consideration had been perused by ourselves, we were prepared to imbibe from its pages a new sensation of enthusiasm. We preface our criticism with that avowal, and we do so all the more readily because we are satisfied that a work of this character only passes through a severer ordeal in proportion to the loftier anticipations of the reviewer. Expecting much, the imagination is more alive to disappoint ment. Judging the composition from its very com mencement by a high standard the mind of the reader is rendered only the more exacting and the more fastidious. So far, therefore, from considering our admiration for the genius of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton as a circumstance calculated to depreciate the correctness of our estimate,: either as to his merits or his demerits as a novelist, we feel that that admira tion is the best guarantee we could afford of our most severe and perfect impartiality. So much for our anticipations; now for their non-fulfilment, or their realisation. Happily for those who cannot perceive that the skilful delineations of crime—crime, the basest or the grindest—are inculcative of the holiest principles and of the most sublime morality, the last fiction of Sir Bulwer Lytton is not a companion story to " Lucretia." In the hideous ineidents which con stituted the chief attraction of that morbid but extra ordinary production—that production which, al though the atmosphere surrounding it was an atmosphere of murder, and treachery, and vice, although its heroine was the very . incarnation of infamy, although her principle yearning was homi cide although the whole book, so to speak, was reeking with poison, and absolutely smelt of blood, was as much entitled to respect for its tendency towards good as the truthful history of Macbeth, or the fictitious history of Orestes—in the hideous incidents, we say, which formed the paramount fascination of " Lucretia" the author pourtrayed the deeds of the Children of Night. His tone was one of congenial horror, and was for the most part comme morative of two anonymous criminals spawned towards the conclusion of the eighteenth century, the one amidst the terrors of the First Revolution in France, the other amidst the domestic pomp of a country mansion in England. In the vicissitudes of " Harold" the author has selected a theme of a very opposite description, and most assuredly one better adapted to his capabilities as a writer, as well as to his predilections as a man. If the work bears any direct resemblance to one of his former productions the si militude is certainly traceable between " The Last of the Barons " and "The Last of the Saxon Kings." Nor does the resemblance consist merely in the simi larity of the titles, in the fact that both tales are illus trative of the same national annals, or in the kindred and peculiar pathos which pervades both, as the record of the extinction of a race and a dynasty. There is a more subtle affinity and a more intimate relationship between the two. They both relate to epochs in our national history of such supreme importance that any effort to familiarize the popular mind with the events which led to those epochs, and the motives which originated those events, any attempt to bring the more remarkable characters of those times more vividly before the imaginations of the multitude, and to reveal the virtues and blemishes of those characters with all the accuracy and with more than the minuteness of the historian, is eminently entitled to our commendation. The one intervenes between the downfal of the Houses of York and Lancaster, and ~the accession of th e T u d ors ; th e other between the extinction of the Danish and Saxon dynasties and the subsequent elevation of the Norman line and the line of the Plantagenets. The latter epoch, the epoch of Harold the Dauntless and of William the Conqueror, is one of a very singular and august character ; it is one the mere remem brance of which after the lapse of nearly eight centuries is fraught with so much that is noble, grand, heroic, and unfortunate on the part of our Saxon ancestors, as well as with so much that is glorious, daring, and successful on the part of our Norman forefathers (for the present sons of the soil of England are the descendants of the two races in nearly equal proportions, from continual intermar riage), that it inflames the heart, :and arouses the sympathies, and elevates the patriotism of the most phlegmatic. A loftier subject could scarcely have been selected by the distinguished author of " Rienzi" and the " Last of the Barons," and he has handled it with a reverent love, with a love not unworthy of the royal son of Godwin, the hero of the Saxon land, the champion of Saxon liberty, and the last wearer of the Saxon diadem. In the " Dedi• catory Epistle" to the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Sir Bulwer Lytton gracefully ac• knowledges the hospitality which placed at his disposal the treasures of an ancient and voluminous library in the residence of his host, the liberal representative of Lambeth. From that library—the library, we suppose, at Bayons Manor, Lincolnshire —he has culled th e mater i a l s o f hi s new historical romance, dipping n o t on l y i nto th e Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the " Ch ron i c l es " of Fl orence , of William of Malmesbury, of William o f Poictiers, of Hoveden, &c., but likewise g a th er i ng corro b o ration from the Roman de Rou, f rom S norro S tur l e son, from the Bayeux Tapestry, and from the recent investigations of Thierry, Sismondi, P a l grave, an d Sharon Turner. The result of this e l a b orate an d l a b or i o us inquiry is manifest in the histori ca l accuracy w hich is preserved in the midst of a fictitious underplot. One great distortion of the truth there is, but that Sir E. B. Lytton himself proclaims in the introduc tion, we mean the nature of the relationship subsisting between Harold the Dauntless and Edith the Fair. Instead of representing Ediva Fairs as the concubine of the Saxon monarch, he, for reasons enumerated in the " Dedicatory Epistle," describes them simply as betrothed to each other, although that is a direct con tradiction to the statements of the ancient chroniclers. We quarrel not with this delicate transmutation of history into romance, for the effect is exquisite and bewitching ; but there are one or two minor mis representations on the part of our author, which we will mention at the right opportunity. The narra tive of "Harold" is, o n t h e w h o l e , however, so strictly i r n o accordancet annalists—by the narrative Rap in, by our diffe rent by Henry and Holinshed, by Lingard a n d M ac kintosh, by Palgrave and Sharon Turner—that we are compelle d t o refrain from giving an epitome of the story, seeing that th e incidents have become familiarised to every sch oolboy the i Normans to the Court of Edward the C onfessor do wn to the in the ingenious catechisms of Pinnock and the co ndensed chapters of G o ldsmith. It were as frivolous in us to recapitulate in a dry cata logue the visit of the events which from William catastrophe which gave the victor y to that same Count of the Normans on th e field of San g uel ac , as Count transpired efn England it would be to detail the anecdote . n of Alfred toast ing the cakes, or of Canuteprov any importance occurring rebe tween those two events — Every circumstance of bet ween the visit o f Willi am to England, A.D. 1052, and the Close o f th e ever memorable and to a certa i n extent . the ever- deplorable Dp 1066, being an inter va l o f Battle of Hastings, A and a half, calculating from years exactly fourteen w oven into the imaginary under plotMay to so October—is deft and a touch so refined that with a hand symmetryof t h e book as a romance, nor neither the h e work as a history is, with a very the faithfulness of alreadythe alluded to, marred' or muti few exceptions. nnecessarily wearying the attention lated. Withou recapitulationunnecessarily of those events, a recapitulation with a lready explained to be superfluous, we which we have a may in a very rapid m anner give some notion of the book as an historical romance, by cons t ru ction of the ticul following par ars. " Harold" is s t a ti ng the divided into Twelve Books— of the moiety a prose epic ! Book 1., entitle d Di ., e Norman Visitor, the Saxon King and the Danish Prop hetess, " recounts the fes tivities at the Court of King Edward the Confessor, ofof Normandy, o f the visit William on the occas ,, on and shows how the man ners of the En g li s h cour ti ers were mimicked from the Norman courtiers at R ouen the gates of Westminster striking —the minstrels at of Normandy "battle - the household scng . up theof d the Paladin. Charles the Great," hymn of Roland partially in honourpartially of the Count, and in contemp t of - the n ational minstrelsy. B oo k 11., headed " Lanfranc the Scholar, he Scholar " brings the tale down 11 eof IN ilham. aider, the renowned to the minstrel of the Normans, is introduced with warrior and chaunts a characteristic ro admirable humour, _ Ballad of Rou." The introduc tionmaunt, called " 1. he however,is still fin • finer, particular of Lanfranc, close of th the description of the William great scholar's hto the Count, when iam " transported speech leaped up and embraced the priest f rom himself with his vast arms ; he kissed his cheek, he kissed his fore head,kissed as in those days king king with the kiss of peace." When the Count prepares to leave Lon don Sivgard the great Earl of Northumbria, says to him—" , ed defenders h jf England ne s w en I and God- 12% Ti 141 IS, INA, win are in our shrouds, there is hut one man worthy of the days of old, and his name is Harold the Outlaw." • . . This inspires with a profound jealousy to wards Harold, insomuch that when he approaches Dover, and saes the port swarming with Norman counts, Norman;hosts, and Norman citiZens„'he speaks thus to his companion Lanfranc:— " Is not England pare of Normandy already?" And the Lombard answered:— _ " The fruit is well nigh rile, and the first breeze will shake it to thy feet. Put not out thy hand too soon. Let the wind do its work." And the Duke made reply, "As thou thinkest, so think I. And there is but one wind i n t h e halls of heaven t h at can wa f t th e fruit to the feet of another." " And that?" asked the Lombard. "Is the wind that blows from the shores of Ireland, when it fills the sails of Harold, son of Godwin." " Thou fearest that man, and why?" asked the Lom bard with interest. And the Doke answered . Becaus e i n t h e b reast of Harold beats the heart of England." Here it is that among other places we conceive the author to have distorted history. He represents William as yearning for the Crown of England, at the period of his visit to Westminster, when accord ing to Ingulf (Ing. 65) he did not then dream of his succession, and Ingulf was then in his retinue, and continued to act for many years as his confidential secretary. In corroboration of Ingulf, see also Flo rence ( 62 7), and Hernmingford (456). Book 111., entitled " The House of Godwin," depicts the power and the pomp of that famous Earl, " and elder king maker,"—describing also his family, Gith his wife, Edith his eldest daughter (wife to Edward the Con fessor), his youngest daughter Thyra, and his six sons, Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gurth, Leofwine, and Wolnoth. Sweyn, the eldest born, is tried be fore the Witenagemote for divers high crimes, and the description of the trial is one of the noblest pas sages in this noble Saxon work. Here is the closing paragraph, after the outlawry of Sweyn, when he avers his guilt and his repentance before the Witan, and announces his resolve to go bare-footed to the Holy Sepulchre gathered his robe of state over his breast as a monk his gown, and looking neither to right nor left, passed slowly down the ball, through the crowd, which made way for him in awe and silence ; and it seemed to the assembly as if a cloud had gone from the lace of And Godwin still stood with his face covered by his robe. " And Harold anxiously watched the faces of the as sembly, and saw no relenting! " And Gurth crept to Harold's side, " And the gay Leofwine looked sad. " And the young Wolnoth turned pale and trembled. " And the fierce Tostig played with his golden chain. " And one low sob was heard, and it came from the breast of Alred the meek accuser—God's true but gentle priest." It is scarcely possible to imagine the effect of this passage—inexpressibly touching in its strange and beautiful simplicity—when perused with the context. Book IV., " The Heathen Altar and the Saxon Church," tells of the restoration of the family of Godwin to the favour of King Edward. Book V "Death and Love," is descriptive of the death of Godwin, and the betrothal of Edith and Harold. In the account of Godwin's demise, the author assumes as authentic the doubtful fables of the chroniclers. Book VI., " Ambition," depicts the rise of Harold till " he was of that height in himself that he needed no pedestal to stand on," and when at last he was " deafened to all but the voice of a grand ambition, and the awakening joy of a noble heart." Book VII., "The Welch King," is a vivid description of the Great Earl's expedition into Wales, and his victory over Gryffyth, the son of Pendragon. Book VIII., "Fate," is full of the witcheries and incantations of Hilda, the Scan dinavian Vala. Book IX., " The Bones of the Dead," carries the story down to the journey of Harold to Normandy, and his oath of allegiance sworn upon the reliquary. Book X., " The Sacrifice on the Altar," explains the apparent faithlessness of Harold to Edith, when he marries Editha (or as Sir Bulwer Lytton calls her by way of distinction, Aldyth), the widow of Gryffyth, and daughter of Alfgar (Algar according to our author), the son of Leofric, better known as the husband of Godiva. Book XI. " The Norman Schemer and the Norwegian Sea King," is princip a ll y d escr i pt i ve o f t h e treasonous intrigues of Tostig and the buccaneering expedition of Harold Hardrada to the kingdom of Northumbria. Book XII., " The Field of Hastings," completes the romance with a splendid delineation of the great battle on the acclivity of Sanguelac. In a work so remarkable as a purely historical production, such as " Harold," perhaps the most interesting feature is the power displayed by the author in his portraiture of renowned characters. We will enable the reader to conjecture how far Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has succeeded in this particular by transcribing nine of his most inimitable portraitures. They are as follows : HAROLD. " The countenance of Harold was, though sorrowful at that moment, and indeed habitually not without a certain melancholy, wonderfully imposing from its calm and sweetness. There, no devouring passions had left the cloud or ploughed the line ; but all the smooth love liness of youth took dignity from the conscious resolve of man. The long hair, of a fair brown, with a slight tinge of;gold, as the last sunbeams shot through its luxuriance, was parted from the temples, and fell in large waves half way to the shoulder. The eye. brows, darker in hue, arched and finely traced ; the straight features not less manly than the Norman, but less strongly marked ; the cheek, hardy with exercise and expo sure, but still retaining somewhat of youthful bloom under the pale bronze of its sunburnt surface ; the form tall, not gigantic, and vigorous rather from perfect pro portion and athletic habits than from breadth and bulk— were all singularly characteristic of the Saxon beauty in its highest and purest type. But what chiefly distin guished this personage, was that peculiar dignity, so simple, so sedate, which no pomp see ms to d azz l e , no danger to disturb; and which, perhaps, arises from a strong sense of self-dependence, and is connected with self-respect—a dignity common to the Indian and the Arab, and rare except in that state of society in which each man is a power in himself. The Latin tragic poet touches close upon that sentiment in the fine lines— " ' Rex est qui metuit nihil Hoc regnum sibi quisque dat.'" WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. "His vest, of a cramoisay so dark, that it seemed black beside the snowy garb of the Confessor, was edged by a deep band of embroidered gold; leaving perfectly hare his firm, full throat--firm and full as a column of granite,—a short jacket or manteline of fur, pendant from the shoulders, left developed in all its breadth a breast, that seemed meet to stay the march of an army; and on the left arm, curved to support the falcon, the vast muscles rose, round and gnarled, through the close sleeve. "In height, he was really but little above the stature of many of those present; nevertheless, so did his port, his air, the nobility of his large proportions, fill the eye, that he seemed to tower immeasurably above the rest. "His countenance was yet more remarkable than his form; still in the prime of youth, he seemed at the first glance younger, at the second older, than he was. At the first glance younger; for his face was perfectly shaven, without even the moustache which the Saxon courtier, in imitating the Norman, still declined to sur render; and the smooth visage and bare throat sufficed in themselves to give the air of youth to that dominant and imperious presence. His small skull-cap left un concealed his forehead, shaded with short thick air, un curled, but black and glossy as the wings of a raven. It was on that forehead that time had set its trace; it was knit into a frown over the eyebrows; lines deep as fur rows crossed its broad, but not elevated expanse. That trown spoke of hasty ire and the habit of stern com mand; those furrows spoke of deep thought and plot ting scheme: the one betrayed but temper and circum stance; the other, more noble, spake of the character and the intellect. The face was square, and the regard lion-like; the mouth—small, and even beautiful in out line—had a sinister expression in its exceeding firm ness; and the jaw —vast, solid, as if bound in iron— showed obstinate, ruthless, determined will; such a jaw as belongs to the tiger amongst beasts, and the con queror amongst men; such as it is seen in the effigies of etesar, of Cortes, of Napoleon." HILDA AND EDITH. " Near the window sat a woman advanced in years, and of a mien and aspect singularly majestic. Upon a small tripod before her was a Runic manuscript, and an inkstand of elegant form, with a silver graphium, or pen. At her feet reclined a girl somewhat about the age of sixteen, her long fair hair parted across her fore head, and falling far down her shoulders. Her dress was a linen under tunic, with long sleeves, rising hi g h to the throat, and, without one of the modern artificial restraints of the shape, the simple belt sufficed to show the slender proportions and delicate outline of the wearer. The colour of the dress was of the purest white, but its hems, or borders, were richly embroidered. This girl's beauty was something marvellous. In a land proverbial for ?air women, it had already obtained her the name the fair.' In that beauty were blended, not as yet without a struggle for mastery, the two expressions seldom united in one countenance, the soft and the noble; indeed in the whole aspect there was the evidence of some internal struggle; the intelligence was not yet complete; the soul and heart were not yet united: and Edith the Christian maid dwelt in the home of Hilda the heathen prophetess. The girl's blue eyes, rendered dark by th e s h a d e o f t h e i r l ong l ashes, were fixed intently upon the stern and troubled countenance which was bent upon her own, but bent with that ab stract gaze which shows that the soul is absent from the sight. So sate Hilda, and so reclined her grandchild Edith." TAILLEFER AND LANFRANC. " The face of the minstrel was open and sunny as the day ; and that of the priest, dark and close as night. Thick curls of deep auburn (the most common colour for the locks of the Norman) wreathed in careless disorder round Taillefer's massive unwrinkled brow. His eye, of light harel, was bold and joyous ; mirth, though sarcas tic and sly, mantled round his lips. His whole presence was at once engaging and heroic. " On the other hand, the priest's cheek was dark and sallow ; his features singularly delicate and refined ; his forehead high, but somewhat narrow, and crosssed with the lines of thought ; his mien composed, modest, but not without calm self-confidence. Amongst the assem bly of soldiers, noiseless, self-collected, and conscious of " Immediately behind the standard-bearers came two figures—strangely dissimilar indeed ;n mien , in years, in bearing : each bore on his : eft wrist a h aw k. Th e one was mounted on a milk-white palfrey, with housings inlaid with gold and uncut jewels. Though not really old—for he was much on this side of sixty—both his countenance and carriage evinced age. His complexion was extremely fair indeed, and his cheeks ruddy ; but the visage was long and deeply furrowe d , and fr om be neath a bonnet not dissimilar to those in use among the Scotch, streamed hair long and white as snow, mingling with a large and forked beard. White seemed his chosen. I colour. White was the upper tunic clasped on his shoul der with a broad ouche or brooch ; white the woollen leggings fitted to somewhat emaciated limbs ; and white the mantle, though broidercd with a broad hem of gold and purple. The fashion of his dress was that which well became a noble person, but it suited ill the , somewhat trail and graceless figure of the rider." his surpasskg power over swords and mail, moved a ti e Scholar." EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. GRYFFYTH. " But in the centre of the space, leading on a fresh troop of shouting Welchmea who had forced their way from another part, was a form which seemed charmed against arrow and spier. Fur the defensive arms of this chief were as slight as if worn but for ornament a small corslet of gold covered only the centre of his breast, a gold collar of twisted wires circled his throat, and a gold bracelet adorned his bare arm, dropping gore, not his own, from the wrist to the elbow. He was small and slight-shaped below the common standard of men—but he seemed as one made a giant by the sublime inspiration of war. He wore no helmet, merely a golden circlet; and his hair, of deep red (longer than was usual with the Welch), hung like the mane of a lion over his shoulders, tossing loose with each stride. His eyes glared like a tiger's at night, and he leaped on the sp ears w i t h a bound. Lost a moment amidst hostile ranks, save by the swift glitter of his short sword, he made, a m id st all, a path for himself and his followers, and emerged from the heart of the steel unscathed and loud-breathing; while, round the line he had broken, wheeled and closed his wild men, striking, rushing, slaying, slain." HAROLD lIARDRADA. " The host rose from his seat, and passed through the porch and stood on the bleak rock under the light of the moon; and so seen, he seemed scarcely human, but some ar chief of the farthest time—yea, of a time ere the deluge had shivered those rocks, and left beds on the land for the realm of that icy sea. For Harold liar tirade was in height above all the children of modern men. Five ells of Norway made the height of Harold Har drada. Nor was this stature accompanied by any of those imp er f ections in symmetry, nor by that heaviness o f as pect, whi c h generally render any remarkable excess commanding.above hum an a t On t n u re t h a e n d contrary,strengh r h a i t s h eprromonstrouspr o po rt i ons . chronicler remarks in his shape, was just, his appearance noble ; and the sole defect that the " His face hadinat `that h i s hands and feet were large , rtions were but these were well made.' the fair beauty of the Norsemen ; his hair, parted the daring o f th e of bard, fell in glitterinito gold over a brow that be spokewarrior and the genius of the profusion to his shoulders ; a short beard and long trimmed, d ache of the same colour as the hair. carefully added t o t h e gran d an d masculine beauty of t h e countenance in which the only what blemih igheash w r thanone something m, % . a e ve something more For, quick of impulse, the Poet-Titan smiled and frofrowned . often." Besides these there are pi c t ures-- paintings in lan guage—of Siward, the Earl o f N orthumbria. immor talised by Shakspere in Afacbeth ;of William itz° borne, the Lord of Breteuil ; of H aco ; of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux; of Aired, Bishop of Wi nc h ester; o f Vebba Vebba the Kentman ; of Leofric, Earl of Mercia; of Rolf, Earl of Hereford; of Meredydd, the Welch chieftain ; and of Messire William Mallet de Gra ville, a Norman ki.ight—evidently a great favourite of Sir Bulwer Lytton. In the portraiture of Queen Edith there is a graceful plagiarism frcm Keats. " The purple light of a high narrow window, shaped in the Saxon arch, streamed rich and full over the Queen's bended head like a glory, and tinged her pale cheek, as with a maiden blush; and she might have furnished a sweet model for an early artist in his dreams of St. Mary the Mother, &c." Who does not remember those two matchless stanzas in " The Eve of St. Agnes ?" " A casement high, and triple• arched there was, All garlanded with careen imageries Of fruits, and flowers, and branches of knot. grass, And diamonded with frames of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As on the tiger-moth's deep damask'd wicgs ; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. " Full on the casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline.'s fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's great boon, Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint: She seem'd a splendid angel newly drest, Save wings for heaven: Porphvro grew faint ; She knelt, so pure a thing, so tree from mortal taint." Several of the sentences incidentally penned in the composition of " Harold" are worthy of separate re membrance—as the crystallization not of mere flies in amber, but of gems of thought. Ex. gr. " Prudence, patience, labour, valour; those are the stars that rule the careers of mortals." "No man should grieve for what he can help—still less for what he cannot help." " The grateful have the power to bless." " The illiterate are ever children," &c. Sometimes, indeed, our author permits himself to mar his masculine and idiomatic composition by a casual commonplace, as where he speaks of H a r o ld " shaking the evil memories from his soul as a lion shakes the dews from his mane ;" but sometimes, again, he redeems a trivial fault of this kind by a sudden gleam of satire, as when writing of the Cha teau d'Eu he says of it, quite, as it were, in paren thesis, " this chateau, no t f amous i n a f tert i mes for the good faith of its lords !" Hilda is perhaps the only actual creation in the book, and Hilda is worthy of the imagination which conceived Arbaces and Adam Warner, and Dallihard, and Zanoni. Of Hilda, the author speaks thus—solemnly and reverently of his own creation—" On the verge of the 'mighty Heathenesse sinking fast into the night of ages, she towered amidst the shades, a shade herself; and round her gathered the last demons of the Dire Belief, defying the march of their luminous foe, and concentering round their mortal priestess, the wrecks of their horrent empire overaworld redeemed." In spite of the awe which envelopes the very idea of Hilda the Vala, there is nevertheless a loathsomeness about her sombre and dismal deeds— especially in reference to the hag by whose revela tions she is at last destroyed—that there is al ways a sense of relief when the narrative turns from the Druid stones, the cromleche (or as the author is fond of calling it, the crommel) elsewhere—to the bluff Vebba, or to the merry Leot wine, or even to the hand. some and cruel Tostig. The fascination which sur rounds the priestess is the fascination of terror. Perhaps the prineipal blemish in the whole production is the delineation of the character of King Edward the Confessor that delineation approaching rather to a caricature than to an historical vraisemblance, and perhaps the most flagrant and yet the least noticeable blunder in the three volumes, is the mention of the Saxon Monarch's devotions at mass in the moonlight, on the eve of the terrible conflict at Sanguelac ; whereas, if we may credit the declara tions of the R om i s h ritual, that office is never, except on the vigil of Christmas, performed until daybreak. With all these subordinate blemishes, however, " Harold," if not the greatest., is assuredly one of the greatest works yet written by Sir Buiwer Lytton. And already he has written with an eloquence, arid a versatility, and an erudition, and an inspiration—the inspiration of a scholarly, and cultivated genius—such as have placed his name conspicuously in the fore most rank of modern English literature. Already he has enriched our dramatic library with _Richelieu, Ld Money, and t h e Sea Captain, and the Lady of ons. A lready he h as assume d' a prominent place and g o ur nation a l essay i s t s b y th e pregnan t dan , meditati ve papers contained in the " Stu dent. ' Already he has materially aided in popularizing politics through the medium of his ingenious and admirable book called "England and the English . '" and has successfully emulated the cla ss i ca l researches of Gibbon and Mit ford in his durable " History of the Rise and Fall of Athens." Already he has acquired a very distin guished celebrity by his poetical effusions—effusions worthy of and Dryd en—we allude not merely to " Eva ; or the Companionship with the verses of Cowley 111-omened Marriage," but to more pretentious and remarkable works, which, for particular reasons, we abstain from enumerating. But especially, and above all, Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton has achieved great things as a novelist and as an historical roman cist. " Pelham" an d " G o d o lphi n " have r evea l e d his capacity to appreciate the fictions of Dickens and Fielding ; his " E have surpassed the wild and eccentric popularity of Ainsworth ; hi s "La s t " Rienzi," his " Zanoni," and his Dap of Pompeii" have opened new and gor geous fields in our fictitious literature ; his "Night and Morning," his " Falkland," his " Disowned," his " Devereux, his " Ernest Maltravers," his " Alice,': Lucretia," and his ." Pilgrims of the Rhine,' in his have severally demonstrated the fecundity of his ima gination and the originality of his invention ; while work, he " Last of the Barons" and in his present " Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings," has dared to penetrate into that sanctuary which still resounded with the giant footsteps of the im mortal Scott. In this last venture our author has acted nevertheless with anything but an insane te merity. He has emerged from his researches among our ancient annals, not disgraced but victorious. On closin g the last volume of " Harold," the memory reverts with j oy to the age of the thegn, and the ceorl, and the th eozee, of th e lith smen , and the reeve, and the /rankli ng; we think of the bode, the nuncius, and the Procers ; we see the mane in his stall, the six handman in the pasture, and the burgher in the city ; we hear the voice of the scop in the hall, and the battle-song of the impassioned scald roaring above the din of the axe and the shield ; we behold again the torque glittering with its zimmes upon the brow of Gry ffyth, the gonna flowing ruund the form of Vebba, and the ateghar blazing in the grasp of ) Gurth ; we see before us once more the satraps of Harold, and the vavasours of William; and above all, and beyond all, and through all, we look with a loving and reverential admiration upon the memory of the last Saxon King—the beautiful and sublime memory of Harold the Royal and the Dauntless. rtirb 'Xibttton MANCHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The St. Leger Stakes; for three yrs old. Mile and three quarters. Swiss Boy Otterburn ... 1 ... 2 The Welter Cup of 100 sovs. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Merry's Chanticleer Sir J. Gerard's Blackie Mr. Boynton's Lucaria .-• 2 .., 3 Handicap of 10 sous. eaeh. One mile and a distance. Romance Gaffer Green ... 2 Yardley ... 3 COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, and attended by the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Miss Macdonald, Major-General Bowles, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bou verie, left her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight, at tea minutes past ten o'clock yesterday afternoon, crossed in her Majesty's steam-yacht Fairy, to Gosport, and travelled to town by a special train on the London and South-Western Railway. On arriving at the terminus at Nine-elms, the august party proceeded, in several of the royal carriages and four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, to Buck ingham Palace, where they arrived at five minutes past six o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at the Palace by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Miss Ca vendish, the Lord Chamberlain, the ,‘I aster of the Horse. Lord Elphinstonv, Lord George Lennox, Lieutenant-- Colonel Boyle, and Colonel Wylde. Her Majesty the Queeu Dowager took an airing yes terday in an open carriage. Lord John Russell returned to his residence in Rich mond Park yesterday morning from Portsmouth. In the afternoon the Noble Lord proceeded to town. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A similar scene to that which took place on Monday was repeated last night, with in tensity.increased, The English party seemed determined to carry out their intentions vigorously and consist ently, and, as we con sider their cause a good one, it has our hearty wishes for its success. The pity is that, while contesting for victory, they are bringing money to the treasury, which otherwise would most assured], never have reached it. But one of our national characterestics is not to regard outlay when a moral good is to be achieved. The system tpworwere judge heue adopted last dngs: opened elne from er odr the downig u h tt t i phth b heet t throats being ehe appearances,nh g d e i rrpdoe packed c t oki the direction n to d Fbrubefore fneol ci force ere hme Frenchmen, e st seemed these nne ot sod: o per formanceshrobe the vilest scum that ever congregated at the lowest cabaret of the French Republic. By a singular ac cident we w ere a d m i tted amongst the " foreign affairs," and we are therefore enabled to state the matter as an eye-witness. When the doors were opened to the public, would it be believed that an effort was made by the incumbents to prevent the legitimates from taking certain vacant seats; but this modest endeavour was properly resisted by a cry of "No places taken in the pit !" some of the most earnest shouted " Britons, be bricks !" and " Britons, support the British dram a !" an d var i ous ot h er patri otic cries. Then came the National Anthem, sang capitally by a majority of the audience. All then was hushed in grim silence; but the lull was threat ening in its aspect, and foretold the coming storm ; and no sooner did the curtain rise, than one burst of indignation was yelled forth, sufficient to fright the isle from its propriety. Up stood the Gallic cocks, and crowed with might and main, and shook their dingy wings, but the roaring of the British lion and his determined front were not thus to be put down. The'ruse of the French party was to call for the police, and then to rush in overwhelm ing numbers upon the offending parties. This, for a time, answered, but upon repetition failed. Now, as the question of tolerating a second French company at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane is entirely Eng lish, the brutal interference of these Frenchmen should at once and for ever be stopped. Foreign ar tists of every nation have been received with libe rality and generosity by the people of England, and that the expression of their will should be inter fered with by a horde of hired foreigners, marshalled expressly for the purpose, should be resented in a manner that should convince them that if they are suffered to dwell her e , an d ga i n t h at subsistence which their native country refuses to them, they should be modest and peaceable, and not grossly thrust their feelings and their peculiar likings upon the people who willingly afford them a shelter and a home. The Engli s h p u bli c h ave no personal pre judices against the troupe of the Theatre Historique, but to the occupancy of our great national theatre by a second French company. No voice has been ever raised against Mr. Mitchell's admirably con ducted theatre—it has existed, we cannot say flourished, for some years, and has been honoured by the continued presence of the Queen and m os t o f the leading families of our aristocracy, a portion of which countenance, had it been bestowed on English authors and actors, our national theatres would not have become the refuge of Italian singers and French speculators. They manage these things differently in France. Upon the last attempt made by Mr. Mitchell to establish for a brief period an English company in Paris, tke theatre occupied by the Italians was let to him for twelve nights. Be it understood the theatre was not devoted to French performances, and yet, upon his application for a renewal of the term, not only was an op position raised by M. Verron, the director of the Academie Royale, upon the grounds that his theatre enjoyed a subvention from the Govern nt, with the proviso that the " Italiens" were only empowered to perform three nights a week, and on the alternate Sabbaths, and . that the letting of the theatre on the open nights was a viola tion of the Government monopoly, ► ut an action for damages was commenced against M. Vattel and Mr. Mitchell, for losses said to have been incurred by the performances of the English troupe. But the English actors were permitted to perform for one night at the Opfra Comique, for the benefit of the distressed widows and orphans of French authors. When, some years since, Air. Penley attempted to establish a small English troupe in Paris, the actors were pelted off the stage with sous and other missiles, and for these courtesies we owe them so much gratitude. The riots at Drury-lane should be stopped at once, and the most effectual method of accomplishing this desired end is for the Lord Chamberlain to withdraw his license. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The comedy of Money was revived last night at this theatre, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean played with their accustomed ability. The house was well attended, and these popular artists were loudly applauded. In other respects the comedy is very strongly cast. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Gay's Beggar's Opera for which Mr. W. Harrison has been engaged is announced for representation here this evening. From the very effective cast we have no doubt the admirers of old English opera will experience a rich treat, and that the opera itself will prove highly attractive. CHARTIST PROCEEDINGS AT LOUGHBOROUGH.—A. visit having been promised by Mr. F. O'Connor to the Chartists of this town, to take place yesterday, the magistrates issued a notice, setting forth the illegality of large meetings being held in the open air, and took precautions to prevent the occurrence of a riot by calling out special constables, the police force, the Yeomanry Cavalry, and a division of the Royal Irish Dragoons. A carriage drawn by a pair of grays awaited the arrival of Mr. O'Connor from Sheffield by the train, and hun dreds of persons were on the spot to receive him. On seeing the dragoons, he expressed his surprise, and on being informed of the cause of their presence, he said, had he known it he should have gone direct on to Lon don. Mr. O'Connor then had an interview with the magistrates in a private room. In a quarter of an hour he mounted an elevated spot in the railway yard, and addressed those assembled around, recommending peace able behaviour, and affirming the sufficiency oi moral power to obtain for the working classes all they wanted. Mr. O'Connor then withdrew, and took the next train for London, and the people dispersed quietly. THE POISONING AT A PUIILIC DINNER AT NORTH AMPTON.— NORTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The inquiry which had been opened before the County Coroner (Mr. Hicks) respecting the death of Mr. Wm. Cornfield, an accountant, who, with twenty others, was poisoned at a public dinner, given here on Wednesday lvist, was con cluded at a late hour last night, at the buil dhall. From the evidence it appeared deceased had partaken freely of some blancmange, coloured with emerald green— form of arsenic—a large quantity of which poi son was found in his stomach after death. Verdict, " Man slaughter against Edward Franklin and Edw Ard Ran dall," who bad prepared the blanc-mange. ,~..