The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-03 00:00:00

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GEES• ;YMPATO AND L i ' Inter ver ankers:-' w formed e to Muld ° .and. 63 10 41 1 0 0 1 10 6 1 0 0 315 9 0 3 6 0 18 9 0 2 6 9 0 0 5 0 3 3 0 5 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 a 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 2 I 2 0 2 0 2 2 THE SUN, MONEY and COMMERCIACNEWt.). CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a firm market for Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday. The sales were 7,000 bales, and included 6,000 American, 200 Egypti in at 61.1. to 7d., 400 Surat at 41. to 4 ,7 1 d., and 70 Sea Island at 111 i. to Is. 23. per lb. —Railway Shares were dull, with but little business doing. In Mark-lane to day the grain trade has been dull and at lower rates. Numerous foreign mails will be dispatched from Lon don this week, including letter bags for the Brazils, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and the Cape de Verde Islands, Valparaiso, the United States, Sz.c. The reports of the Stock Markets abroad give the latest quotation of Austrian Bonds at Frankfurt at 841, and of the Metalliques at,Vienna at 931. The Prussian Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at Berlin were 87k. The Amsterdam market was brisk for Dutch Two- and-a. Ralf per Cents, at 53 15-16. The steamer from America is telegraphed as having arr!ved off Liverpool this morning, but her letters are not expected in town until to-morrow. The continental advises have been received in due course. At Hamburgh, last Friday, the rate of exchange On London was steady at 13 91, and the price of gold was 436. There was an active demand for Bills of Ex change on Petersburgh ; funds and shares were tolerably firm• The general trade of Hamburgh appears to be improving. It is mentioned as a subject of complaint, in accounts from St. Putersburgh, that not only English but likewise other ships for the North Sea, were becoming continually scarcer, and that freights were daily rising in consequence. N everthele,s, all articles of produce maintained their value very fairly. The Lombardian Government has announced a re duction in the duty upon wino imported. It may be remembered that this was raised in April, 1846. A statement of the foreign commerce of Belgium during the first seven months of 1849, shows compari tively with the like period of 1848, a decline in various articles imported, wool, tobacco, cotton, and silk fabrics, being, however, an exception. The exports generally Were larger. At the thirteenth annual general meeting of the Coventry Union Banking Company the report of the directors and the balance sheet of the affairs to the 30th of June last were read, and the proprietors expressed their lull satisfaction at the progress of the bank. The net balance of profit for the year was about 3,8001., wh ich, after paying a dividend of five per cent., left a surplus of nearly 2,000/. There has been a better market for the English Se curities, and with some incre a s e of money business. Consols have realised 921 to 1 for Transfer to-morrow, and 921 # for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 934 and the Three per Cents. 921 • Bank Stock is worth 199 to 1991, being firmer. Exchequer-bills have been marked 393. to 425. premium, and India Bonds 755. premium. There is no news this morning calculated to act on prices. The Foreign Securities are for the most part at rather full prices, although very little is doing. Portuguese Old Five per Cents. have been 814, but these, we believe, are guaranteed by Brazil. Spanish Three per Cent. Stock has been 344, and the Five per Cent. 18i to 1. Mexican Bonds have been 28 to k, and Peruvian have touched 55 and 55i. Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. have realised 54 to 541. The Share Market is extremely heavy again for all the principal Railways, and sales can only be effected at farther reduced rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 1994 199 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 per Cent. Consols Anna 92V6V/ 2 New 3 1 4 per Cont. Arens. 93% 3 / 1 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 — Do. 30 Years, Expire Octl 0, 1859 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 B% India Bonds under ....... 75 p Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. lid- 2d. March. June. Small 39 42 p 1,0001. 5001 39 42 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons - Ditto Ex Coupons - Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent - Ditto. 4 per, Cent., Active 55% 55 Do. Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Bl% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,l840 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ... ... - 34% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild AI)" S e irdIIeEenSS RA D ri O w N A E TB I . N RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK PAID. PIZ SSA I Z. 60 ..... 18 . .... to - A tto Di ..., , P ref erence 6 ,4 - '''"‘T., Notting., Boston, &c. 6 - to - Ayrshire and Galloway 7% - to - Belfast and County Down .. 25 .. .. - - Berks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. P erpe t.s per ct.) 6 - .» .. to - Birmi n gham & OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - to - 1)0 ., without a guarantee... 20 ... - B irmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . - to - to - Do., without a guarantee... 10 - ... Binning., Wol., SE Stour Val. 131.1413 - - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2O Boston, Stamf., & Birming...7l. 4s - .. ... to - Bristol and Exeter - - Do., Thirds - Buckinghamshire - 17% - - Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares l2 %.• ... - Ditto, New 10/. Preference 10 -... 11 - Chester, Clydesdale Junction 50 - D and Holyhead... 5O - to - tto, Preferenc° - to - D°Clarece. .... 9 Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - . ... to - D 0., T ., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - to - D ." 0., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to - _ irect London & Portsmouth 5 1 -4 - - publin and Belfast Junction.. 40 - Dun dalk and Enniskillen ... 22% - to - Last Anglia, 25/. L. & E., a ild L. & D - - Ditto, 18/. E. & H lB ... .. - - E Ditto, 31. 1 , 05., E. & H... 3% -. - ', N s tern Counties - to - ..o.Nrew Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 - to - " 0 . Exten.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 132. 4d.. 4pto - °•,D q e....... N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d... - - 1)0 •, North ern & E as t er n... 50 - to - L e 9per cent. 5 - I, Cl * , Quarters 121..... - - t E o, New . .. 43 . .... - •••• ••• W - nit;tiettro Union, Class A (late - ...... to - ~.E. U. Shares) ...... ... - 2 5 ..,itto ditto, Class A ditto 3% . - vs ) — f to to f do, Class B (1. &B) 25 ...... - - Ditto, Class C, ditto... 22% - to t,I) do, - .... to itto Scrip (gua. 6 per et.) 20 ast Lancashire .......... 25 - Ditto, Now No '''' .• • ......... .... . 25 - to - r)O T.,m ..A .... - ~ New Qua 0 ,!, , 6 per Cen t r . ters Preference 61 vlarter Shares 6 14 - to - t.:d t ,Lincolnshire 25 - to - binurgh and Glasgow 5O - ••••••• to - t ,,, itto, Half Shares - - :uulbur hand Northern ... 25 ...... -- Diu g- - E x , 0 , New port.. . - E e 'er, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% - - uiXeter and Exmouth.... 2ls. - ••• •• to - U1,,,, 13 g* , Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 68.8 d - ..... to - fg°w, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - - 0 _ o.Pr e f erence Consol i dated - ..-. - - \nea t Northern 2O - Do. i l2 A Deferred ..... ... 12% - to - i ii B 6 per Cent. G t 7 o 9 5 per Cent. Pref. - South. & W est. ( I re l an d) 47% - to - Great North of England 100 - Ditto, New 401............ .. 40 - to - ~, Ditto, ditto " 35 v itt°, New 30! a-..»..- tto, New l. ...... 15 .... -,„, to G r es -. t Western 100 Ditto, Half Shares 5O - Ditto, Quarter Shares 23 13%% x.d. to - Ditto Fifths 2O 123 . 0/2 x.d. to I , be. New 171. - ...8% 3 A x.d. to - 'Oll and Selby 5O Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 - .. ... to - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50 - to - . Do., Thirds - Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100 - to - Ditto, ditto, M. B. & B ... 96 - to - Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares ,.. 46 ...... - - Ditto Quarters 22% - to - Ditto Fifths lO Ditto, Thirds •.. 15 ...... - .. .. to - DO ., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 - D o. Liverpool and Bury... 46 - . ... to - R O . (Rudders. and Sheff.) 50 T , 4/0 ., West Riding Union... 9 .... - - •-e., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ..... 38 1 4 x.d to -- 16% x.d to - L(5l-1.?., do., Half Shares (A) 10 r !us and Bradford ''', e( la and Think ...- ......... 50 ue New i , 9 •.. - ~ d o.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%... •• - fo - T • °. Pref. Quarters, 1848... 9 - to - 'Avepool, Crosby, and Sout h ................ to - 1,,,t, 40 0 & Blackwall ... ..... . 12% - ir" Bright., & South Coastloo - h e, New U., gua. 6pr Ct.loo 125 .... . to .....• .. to - ir. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 -• ,_ be. P referential, 5 per Ct., 50 •••••• - ... •• w Lao, ditto 1852 50 .. ••• - - De to -- Llnd" New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 - • •••• r _ and pref G er r e e n en ce wich... 12/.155. 4d - ...... to - Ditto2o . - - - ' , l4tlo il it. xi- D., ~-4..orth Western--. 100.-121% 122 x.d. to 120 1 4 if' ''''ew Quarters l2 - x.d.... to - 0. Fifth - De 8 , • 40i. Shares.....L. & M 35 L o u°. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 - to - - to - 1; 100 and S. Western....... 50 .. ... 33 1 4 x d to 33 34 Di .t tott. New 504••••••• - 42%...... 25% x.d to ~.„ 0, New 40! - to - , : j s it t o . Third 5......... 16/. 13s. 4d - dis.... to - ' O , New Scrip, 1848, Prof. 7 Per Ct. on Deposit and Load s Per Ct on Calls ... .•• 5 • ••• - • to - ~, onderry and Coleraine.- 25 - to - 1, '''' Half Shares ond o to - I , nderry and Enniskillen 25 - ...................... ... 510754 - • , r ., Half Shares 5 ...... _ ....- to - )4.'41. Buxton, & Matlock 5 nchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - to - ultt i to - b. ° 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 23 - Ditto,it ditto (No. 2) 25 - to - ? ) o 1.43 Shares (No. 3)... 12% ...... - - Ditto e , w 10/. Preference.. 10 ... .. - .. - to - li ii. tt ttoo ! d: cluhi r i trtot oi a t I mo. s e b bi • Y d. .. - to - Dittoto - and Line. 2 2 5 2%...... D itto, lu lls .. y Dock - to - 06 Liz;lJaion 44, 2b.... •-• • ...... .....100 60 )itto, Consol• l'rei erence...loo Dttro, 50/. Shares ...... 30 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo tliclland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingbam. 6 per cent.... 100 126 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 40 ... Ditto ditto lB/. 12s. 6d Ditte,ErewaaNal., Pref... 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 . Ili: id1(1. Great Western (Irish) 47% — to Middlesbro' and Bedew. 6 per cent. guar..... Newcztelle and Carlisle lOO Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... — ...... to —. Newmarket ...... ... ..... .... 23 Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 1 28 — Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and liostrevor ..... ............. 20 Norfolk- IOO Ditto New 201. . Ditto Guaranteed 5 per et. 20 - Do. Do. 5 1 4 Q per cent 5 ..... Do. Lwestoft (guar.4p ct.) 20 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.... 13 ...... ___to Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union ... 4 North British ...... 25 13 to Ditto Fall Shares-- ..... 12 1 ,4 Do. Quarters — Ditto Thirds ........ Ditto. Preference North Staffordshire........... 17 4 North Wales — ..... to North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- verhampton Reading,Gr'uildfd.,& Reigate 15 Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... Ditto, New... 2 2 1/ .2 . — to Shrewsbury and Birmingham 11 ...... 4 to 4 1 4 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 — to Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 4 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. lain.) Ditto Halves. Ditto 9 ... to Ditto, Uswestry Ditto „New)... , to Ditto ti per Cent. Pref....—. 10 Shropshire Union 5 4 ..... 2 g to South Devon Ditto, Preference ...... .. South Staffordshire B l4 — ... .. to South Eastern ..... ... 33 1 %. ... 20 3 / 4 %... to . _ Ditto, No. 1. - to Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3. 3O Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 ...... 6 1 ,4 to Ditto. Scrip No. 4.. South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole lO - Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N.D) Gua. 5 per ct. 14% — to Do. do. (South Div.) 5 - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... . 7 raw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1,/ — Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Waterford and Limerick..... 47 1 ,4..... Waterford,Wexford,Wieklw, _ and Dublin Wear Valley 6 par Gent. .. _ Guaranteed - ... 5O ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness l6 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South _ . _ Western... . . Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 45 ...... I ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 2517 3 % 4 CO .."... ._ Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 1 2 1A04.. to .... Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 . :— ...... to Do. Hartlepool Dk. & 813. 100 fork and North Midland .. 50 ...... 22% 22 to 21.4 Ditto, Preference lO - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) Boulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 61q to Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) .... Demerara. ..........- ........ ... 17 1 4.... •-• Dutch Rhenish 8 East Indian Great Indian Peninsular _5 ...... 5% ...... "to Do. Do los. --... Louvain Ala Sambre ......... 7% — ...... to Luxembourg Ditto - lO — to Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege 2O ..... Northern of France 1418 s 3,0,4 dis to;.— Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 Paris and Orleans... 2O - Paris and Rouen 2O — to Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 11 - Rouen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O - Strasburg and Bale l4 , — - Tours & Nantes ... ... .. 11 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt .., ... .• 20 .•...• —••—• to West Flanders 8 34 — ...... to -- Ditto JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 . .... Colonial - . .. to —• Commercial of London 2O •••••• London Joint Stock ...- lO London and Westminster... 20 ...... to National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 22% — ..... to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New - Union of Australia ....... ..... 25 - : Ditto, New to Union of London ....... . ...... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ...... Asturian Australian ....... Barr°3sa Range....... 285....... ---. Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrin — — to British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... ..... 244...... - Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 . — to Cobre Copper General Real del Monte. Unregistered —..— .. ... to Do. Black Debentures — ...... ...... to Do. Red Debentures ..... Santiago de Cuba. United Mexican ....... ........ 28% — ...... to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 3.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.E.; light breeze and fine weather. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 2. Arrd. Pacha steamer, Gibraltar, left 25th ult., and Cadiz 26th, Lisbon 29th, Oporto and Vigo 30th. PADSTOW, AUG. 31.—Wind S.—Arrd. Lawrence Forristal, Poole, Quebec. ALNWICK, Auo. 31.—Arrd. Active, Hughes, Quebec. CLYDE, SEPT. I.—Wind E.—Arrd. 31st ult., Free Briton, Preston, Montreal. Sld. 30th, Sarah Botsford, Pictou, N. S.; Patriot, Boston, United States; Agnes, Seville. Sept. 1, Nestor, Port Philip and Sydney. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Ist, Bright man' Cowley, London for Sydney, New South Wales. 2d, Hindostan, Hacker, Quebec; Eclipse, London for Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. I.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. York shire, Briers, New York. 3d, America steamer, ditto. Sid. Ist, Recorder, Calcutta; Mary Woods, Valparaiso; Niagara, ditto; Roscoe, Rio Grande; Ellen Highfield, ditto; Maria, Rio Janeiro; Gulnare, St. Thomas's; Ines, New Orleans; Defence, Virginia; Europa steamer, Bos ton; Ocean Queen, Miramichi; Red Rose, Singapore; 2nd, Anne Armstrong, Bombay; Caroline,Buenos Ayres; Sumatra, Santo Tomas; James Pennell, New Orleans; Isaac Wright, New York; Ambassadress, Dalhousie; Rowley, Montreal; Olive, Smyrna; Providence, Trieste. Sid. Mary, Africa. Off Port, 2d, R. C. Winthorp, Constellation, Llewellyn, Jardine, ship, Vronw Johanna, ship, Progress, Chetab, schooner. PORTSMOUTH ' SEPT. I.—Wind E. ; 2nd, S.W. to S.— Arrd. Ist, Pear l, Chalmers, London for Montreal; 2d, Hendrik Hudson, Pratt, London for New York. Sid. , Ist, Prince of Wales, Calcutta. OFF THE START, AUG. 26.—Helens, Knapper, Boston for Hamburgh. DEAL, SEPT. I.—Wind E.S.E. to E.; 2d, S.W. to E.— Arrd. from the river, Lord Petre, Middleton, Mauritius; Arrd. from the river and sailed Ist, Equestrian, Spence. Bombay; Hartland, Cromer, Quebec; Mary M'Whin nie, Belcher, ditto; 2d, West, Bower, Batavia; Perse verance, Thompson, St. Helena, since put back; James, Mainland, Valparaiso; Majestic, Culverson, Newport and Jamaica; Briton, Mitchell, Cuba; Prince Edward, Chambers, Pictou; Devon, Betts, Halifax; Locklibo, Boyd, Quebec. BRIDLINGTON, SEPT. 2.—The Economy, of and for Wisbeach, from the North, coal laden, was in contact off Flamborough Head with the Orbit, of Shields (in bal last), and has been towed in here with loss of both masts by the deck, by the Orbit, which has also received damage. BELFORD, AUG. 31.—51 d., Don, Miramichi. BRIKHAM, AUG. 31.—Sid. Triumph, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Sid., Woodbine, Pictou. DEAL, SEPT. 2.—The Achilles Manes, from London to Quebec, has put back to the Downs with cholera on board. NEWPORT, SEPT. 2.—The Ocean, Newport to London, was run foul of yesterday by the ship Ontario, and has received some damage. PILL, SEPT. I.—Sld . Nestor, Africa; Feronia, Mira michi; Dispatch. Quebec. NEWPORT, SEPT. I.—Wind N.E.—Sid. 31st ult. William Ward, Bermuda. Ist, Mary Matthew, Jamaica; Alice Frazer, Charleston; Maria Cleaves, Boston; Cul zaro, New London. CARDIFF, SEPT. I.—Wind E.—Sld. 30th ult. Rio Grande, New York; 31st, Argo, Acapulco; Forcella, New York. WHITEHAVEN, AUG. 31.—Wind S.E.—Sld. 30th Ino, Monte Video. DUBLIN, SEPT. I.—Wind S.—Sld. Fairy, Newfound land. LIMERICK, SEPT. I.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 31st ult., Brian Abbs, Hemsworth, New York. MARGATE, SEPT. 2.—The Mary M'Whinnie, London to Quebec, has anchored in the Gore, with assistance, and has engaged a steamer to tow her to Sandgate Creek, her crew being laid up with the cholera. SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 2.—The Jansina of Groningen, from Hull to Newcastle, was run on shore during a tog at Souter Point, near this port, on the 31st instant, but has been got off, and brought in here, with but little damage. STRONNESS, AUG. 30.—The Dolphin, Liverpool to Cronstadt, which went on shore on the island of Flotta, 26th instant, came in here last evening, having been lightened and hove off; the vessel is supposed to have received damage, but makes no water. PETERHEAD, AUG. 31.—The Flora, from Osterisse to Wick, stranded this morning on Scotsan Head, but has since floated off and proceeded. FLEETWOOD, AUG. 31.—Sid. Bessie, Quebec. Sept. 1, Thomas, Quebec; Nelson Village, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN- EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Notwithstanding that the weather has ben showery during the last two or three days, very great progress has been made in the cutting and carrying of Wheat. The produce of the crops is represented as large. The country markets, held on Saturday, were in a depressed state for all kinds of grain, which were again lower to purchase. Our letters from the near continental ports state that most articles are falling in value. As yet we have received no supplies from the Baltic; but large quantities of Wheat are now close at hand from Dant zig. The arrivals of English Wheat for our market last week were good—those of other articles of home produce small. The foreign imports amounted to 11,922 quarters of Wheat; 4,233 ditto of Barley; 24,282 ditto of Oats; 81 ditto of Beans; 349 ditto of Peas; 8 ditto of Tares; 55 ditto of Rapeseed; 27 ditto of Mustard Seed; 66 ditto of sundry Seeds; and 1,864 sacks of Flour, from France, made from the present year's crop of Wheat. Fresh up for this morning's market by land carriage, the arrivals of new Wheat of home produce were seasonably good, but its general quality was by.no means so fine as was that exhibited on Monday last. Coastwise, the re ceipts were but moderate, especially from Essex. The show of samples, nearly the whole of which were new, was considerably in excess of the immediate wants of the millers, and the demand for all kinds of English Wheat was in a very depressed state, at a further decline in the quotations of from is to 2s per quarter. At the close of the market quite one• fourth of the supply re mained undisposed ot. With foreign Wheat we were tolerably well, but not to say largely supplied. A few selected parcels were in' some instances disposed of at about stationary prices, but all other kinds ruled heavy, at is to 2s per qnarter beneath last week's currencies. The prospect of early and large arrivals from the Baltic tended to depress the market. Some of the importers were compelled to land, and floating cargoes were entirely neglected. Offers for the delivery of Wheat continue to arrive from most of our agricultural districts. The few samplss of new English Barley on offer sold steadily, at full prices. With Fo reign Barley we were fairly supplied, while the demand for that article was heavy, and inferior grinding parcels were somewhat lower to purchase. Although the quan tity of Malt on offer was comparatively small, the trade ruled exceedingly flat; so much so, indeed, that it was difficult to ascertain the exact value of thevarious qualities. The quantity of home-grown Oats on sale was trifling; that of foreign somewhat extensive. Fine fresh corn sold at full prices. In the damp and otherwise out-of condition parcels, very little business was transacted, at barely late rates. We have no change to notice in the value of Beans, the transactions in which were trifling. All kinds of Peas moved off slowly at last week's quota tions. Flour was lower to purchase by from is. to 2s. per sack, and Is. per barrel. In Indian Corn and Meal, nothing doing. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier...... 595 tO 60 Red, New.. • - 409 to 475 Oats— Yorkshire and Di tto,White, New 445 51s Lincolnsh., Feed. 15s 18s Norfolk and Lln- Potato ...... 185 2ls coin, Red. •• • • 395 43s Youghai and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • • • 415 47s Black . .. • . 145 17s Irish, Red •••• •• • • —s —s Cork, White..... 165 185 Ditto, White •••• • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 20s 22s Rye—Old .... 23s 25s Beans—Tick ... 285 31s New......... •• 235 26s Pigeons ...... •• • . 335 35s Barley—Grinding .•. . • 23s 25s Peas—Grey .•••• • • • • 275 !8s Malting . .•• • • • 27s 285 Maple ... • • . • 28s 30s Chevalier .. • • .• • 295 30s White... •••• • • .. 255 27s Sfalt —Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••• • • 27s 30s f01k............ 565 58s Flour—Town-made... 37s 42s Brown.•.•••••.•• 485 54s Suffolk ••••• . • • . • 32s 34s Kingston and Ware 57s 58s Stockta & Norfolk 325 845 SEED MARKET. A considerable fall has taken place in the value of new Canary Seed since our last report. To-day that article was offering at 90s to 100 s per quarter, without finding buyers. New white and brown Mustard Seed is lower to purchase. Tares and Rapeseed have a down ward tendency. In cakes scarcely any business is doing. The stork of Clover seed in bond is about 40,000 cwts. Turnip,White, per bush. lOs to 12s i Red mad Green .. • • lOs 12s Mustard, 8r0wn.... . 53 9s White .• •• •• •• 5s 9s Tares, New •• •• •••• •• 6s --s1 Old•• ••••••...... 45 5s Canary, per quarter .. 90s 100 s Rye grass...." •• ••• 20s 24s Clover, Reg Eng . (cwt.) 35s 608 White ..•• .... • • 348 48s Foreign Red.... •• 30s 40s White.... 24s 42s Trefoil .. • . 14s 18s SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into the metropolis last week were seasonably good, and of full average quality. The low prices alone prevent a very large increase in the supplies from abroad, where, we learn, they are very extensive. Carraway 298 303 Coriander .. .... • . l6s 258 Hempseed, per quarter 32s 345 Linseed, Eng. Sowing • • 54s 59s Crushing • 42s 46s Baltic .. .•.. • Odessa •. • Linseed Cake r. 1,000— English • • .. ...Si 108 101 Os Foreign, per ton 610 s 71 Os Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 5s 41 lOs Rapeseed, New, pr Ist 261 Os 281 Os IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Hamburgh 6O ... 83 ... ... -- Harlingen ll9 ... 1,109 .. 117 ... i 9 ... 9 Rotterdam 603 ... 2,009 ... 239 ... 208 ... 92 Antwerp Nieu Diep Amsterdam 56 ... 492 ... 28 ... Ostend Tonningen 175 ... 26 ... Total 1,050 .. 4,595 ... 356 311 .. 109 Corresponding week inlB4B 1,092 ... 4,579 ... 129 ... 430 ... 5 Difference... 32 less. 16 more. 227 more. 119 less. 104 m. The most striking fact in connexion with these re turns is the steady increase in the imports of pigs. At the outports the arrivals of foreign stock have some• what exceeded 2,000 head, mostly from France and Holland. Fresh up for this morning's market, the re ceipts of beasts from our principal grazing districts were again seasonably extensive; and the number of that description of stock on offer from abroad was large. Although the dead markets were well cleared of their last week's supply the Beef trade here to-day was exces sively heavy, at barely last Monday's decline in the quotations. The highest figure for Beef was only 3s 8d per Blbs, and at which a clearance was not effected. From the northern counties we received about 1,100 short horns; from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge shire, 900 Scots and short horns ; from the western and midland districts, 450 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 120 horned and polled Scots. There was a slight falling off in the numbers of Sheep compared with those exhibited on this day se'nnight. On the whole we had a slight improvement in the de mand for most breeds of sheep, in the prices of which, however, we have no advance to notice. The primest old Downs were selling at 3s 10d per 81bs. The " season " for Lamb is now rapidly drawing to a close. The supply to-day was tolerably good, and a fair amount of business was transacted, at full prices. With Calves we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied. The Veal trade was again dull, at unaltered quotations. Pigs, the supply of which was small, moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 2 6 2 8 Second qual. Sheep 3 0 3 2 Second quality •••. 2 10 3 0 Coarse-woolledditto3 4 3 6 Prime large Oxert• • 3 2 3 4 Southdown Wether 3 8 310 Prime Scots •••• . • 3 6 3 8 Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 2 Large Hogs •• • • 3 2 3 6 Prime small ditto .. 3 4 3 6 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves .• 18 0 24 0 Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep .• • 2 8 210 Lambs .. 4 0 5 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep, Calves. I 4,113 31,580 214 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Pigs. 225 Beasts. 1,166 I Sheep. 5,140 Calves. 92 I rigs. _... BOROUGH AND BPITALFIBLDS. The rapid decline which has taken place in the prices of potatoes in these and the other metropolitan markets has had the effect of checking importations from abroad. Since this day se'nnight the arrivals from the continent have consisted of only 76 baskets and 23 bags, the former being from Havre, the latter from Calais. We do not expect any imports of consequence until about the close of the present month. Notwithstanding that the sup plies of home-grown potatoes have fallen off, we have no improvement to notice in the demand. In some in stances, prices are rather easier. Shaws are quoted at 31 to 31 18s, and Regents, 31 15s to 41 lOs per ton. The value of foreign potatoes is nominal. WOOL. The imports of foreign woolinto London, last week, were only 507 bales, mostly from Hamburgh. The pri vate market continues to be well supplied with all kinds of wool; yet the demand is somewhat active, owing to the favourable accounts from the manufacturing dis tricts, and the late advance in the quotations is well supported. The unusually large sales have greatly re duced the stock of Australian Wool, which is now about 35,000 bales. NEUMANN AND LEADENEALL. For the time of year, these markets are well supplied with all kinds of Meat, except Veal. Since our last several arrivals have taken place from the provinces, and which have with difficulty sold at very low prices. The general demand must be considered heavy, at a fall iu the quotations of 2d per 81bs. About 800 carcases of foreign Meat have appeared on sale. At per stone by the Carcase. Beef,inferior......d. to 5. d. 8 2 . 11 2 . t o 2 8 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 8 - middling .... 2 6 2 8 middling 210 3 2 - primelarge .. 210 3 0 - prime 3 4 3 8 - prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large •• • • 3 2 3 6 Veal.. • •• • . .2 10 3 4,- small 3 2 4 0 Lamb. 3s 10d to 48 10d. BOROUGH HOP MAREET. The latest advices from nearly the whole of the plan tations are to the effect that a very great improvement has taken place in the general appearance of the bine during the past week. Our market is, therefore, ex ceedingly heavy, at drooping prices. The duty has ad vanced to 95,0001. and 100,000/. The absurdity of bet ting upon the duty must be obvious.—Susscx Pockets, 31 lOs to 41 10s; Weald of Kent ditto, 318 s to 41 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3l lOs to 71 5s per cwt. TALLOW. We have still to report a very inactive demand for all kinds of Tallow. Since Monday last prices have further receded 3d to 6d. To•day P. Y. C. on the spot is quoted at 38s 6d to 38s 9d per cwt, and for forward delivery 38s to 38s 3d. Town Tallow is 37s to 37a 6d per cwt net cash; rough Fat 2s lid per 81bs. Our letter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 22d ult., states that about 5,000 casks had sold on lower terms, viz., from 112 to 115 roubles for the usual shipping sorts, The exports were LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, going on rapidly, although the number of ships available was small, and the total supply fur the season was esti mated at 159,000 casks. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1-- Stock this day .•.. •• 10,926 10,047 14,655 15,459 26,368 Price of Y. C. • • 40s Gd 42s Od 478 Od 45s 3 d to 38 s 96 .. to 418 Gd to 42s 66 to 47s 96 45s Gd to3BB 6d Delivery last week:.. 1,885 1,963 2,006 1,952 1,619 Ditto from June 1...• 20,521 12,592 , 14,454 20,508 15 , 780 Arrivals last week . 2,118 2,206 ; 4,307 3,628 2,399 Ditto from June 1 ... 15,470 12,056 21,010 28,436 16,675 Price of Town .• •• .. 45s Od 45s Od 493 6d 47s (id 403 Od THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 1. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Doathl. Cholera. Diarrh Attacks. St. Giles and St. Georgo West London ••• St. George, Southwark Greenwich Bethnal-green Bermondsey ... St. Olave ... .., Lambeth ... . . Whitechapel Stepney ... ... Maryle bone St. George-in-the-East St. Mary, Newington ... St. Pancras ... ... Poplar ... Strand ... St. James, Westminster Clerkenwell St. Luke ... Camberwell St. Saviour, Southwark Hackney ... ... Islington ... Kensington Hampstead ... Wandsworth Lewisham ... East London ... Shoreditch Rotherhithe Chelsea... ... City of London St. Martin•in-the-Fields Holborn Union Westminster ... St. George, Hanover-square ...1 • • • .'"'" ••• ''''''' ... --' ••• "'''' ••• -"" ••• ...''''' ••• .... ••• .""• • • • ..-"" ••• ...-.. ••• ... ••• "''''' ••• ..-.. • • • "..' goo .'"-.• ••• ..... ••• ..... ••• ..... ••• ..-• • 4.• ....... ••• ..... ••• ...." ••• * Total ••• "''' THE COUNTRY. Attacks. Liverpool Clifton Cardiff Swansea Plymouth Portsea... Tynemouth Salisbury Warrington ... Newcastle-under-Lyne Lancaster ... ••• Brighton .•• Neath Bradford, Yorkshire .. Sculcoates ••• Bristol ... Tewkesbury ... ••• Gravesend Maidstone • St. German's ... ••• Roch ford ... ••• Dewsbury ... ••• Prescot VOID ••• Dover ... ... ••• Anglesey ... ••• Leeds ... ••• Hunslet ••• ••• Cambridge ... •• Wolverhampton and Fersdon South Shields ... Hull . . Bolton ••• Bury ... Preston ..• Madeley ..• Sheppey ••• Manchester ... Gainsborough • • •e • •"''. ••• ....• • . • ..... • • • .- ••• ••• ^. Total ... ••• ....... No return. _ - 230 30 Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. 5 2 2 0 2 0 3 2 3 0 3 0 O 5 1 1 O 1 O 2 1 1 2 1 4 0 6 3 9 0 7 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 8 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 1 0 16 1 14 0 1 0 12 3 1 0 28 2 1 0 O 1 O 1 1 • 1 0 10 6 5 0 163 ••• ''''' SCOTLAND. Dundee ... ... Fortrose ... ... Kilspendie, Erroll ... St. Andrew's ... ... ••• ...... ••• '''... ”• ".'''." Total ... General total:— Metropolis Country ... Scotland ~. .• ..... . • • -- ••• ''''.. ••• ....'. 13 3 1 1 230 168 ••• ''''''' General total ... Note.—The attacks are not given, as the returns are very defective, owing to there being no record of cases from medical men in private practice. The deaths are more correct. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. MR. EDlTOR,—Permit me through your journal to ask Mr. Dover, whose plan for de-putrefying the sewage of London and other populous places in England and Wales, has been so ably and generally demonstrated in the Atlas and other papers, upon what foundation he concludes Mr. Chadwick " has no small interest in the system for converging the sewage, and with it flooding the country ?" Your constant reader, FATHER THAMES. Richmond, Surrey, Sept. 1, 1849. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, Aue. 31. Yesterday the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert went on a fishing expedition on Loch Maniell. Her Majesty and the Prince slept at "The Hut" on the banks of the loch, and returned to Balmoral late this evening after his Royal Highness shooting. Lord John Russell returned to day from a visit to Mar Lodge. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen ar rived at Clarence House, St. James's, on Saturday, from a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Eden House, Tonbridge Wells. His Serene Highness loft town yesterday for Portsmouth. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the West India colonies. COLONEL SIIITIIORP. We regret to learn the hoalth of the Hon. and gallant Member for Lincoln is not so satisfactory as his friends would desire. On the other hand, no immediate danger is apprehended. VISCOUNT BRACHLEY, Ml'.—By accounts received in town from Worsley-hall, Lancashire, not the slightest hopes are entertained of the recovery of the Noble Lord, who was sinking fast. The demise of his Lordship will occasion a vacancy in the representation of North Staf fordshire.— Weekly Chronicle. Sir Henry Litton Bulwer, our recently-appointed Ambassador at America, arrived in London yesterday, from Paris.-- Weekly Chronicle. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The steam ship Europa, Captain Lott, departed from the Mersey at noon to-day, for Halifax and Boston, with the usual mails for North America. She also carried out 140 passengers ; amongst them was the Hon. Mr. Bancroft, the ex- Minister of the United States to the Court of St. James. The steam ship America, Captain Harrison, which would leave New York on the 22d, and Halifax on the 25th ult. with the inward mails, is expected to arrive in the course of Monday. EXTENSIVE ROIIDERIES.—On Saturday informa tion was received by the police, that the George and Vulture Hotel, Cornhill, had been entered by thieves and plundered of 4001. worth of foreign gold silver coin; the residence of Count Latour, 79, Great Titchfield street, of a quantity of gold plate and jewels, value 3501.; the Hon. Mrs. Holmes, Westow-lodge, Tulse-hill, of silver plate, valued at 2001.; and E. Morris, Esq., Argyle-lodge, Clapham, of silver plate, valued at 801., and 40 sovereigns. CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CoNvier.—lnforma tion was received at Woolwich on Saturday last that Wood, " the celebrated Wood," so cleverly detected by Mr. Field, one of the inspectors of the Metropolitan Detective Police, during his recent visit to Paris in search of Manning, is the convict belongi ng to the War rior conviet ship who escaped from Woolwich Dockyard in the daytime about five weeks ago. Although the stolen watch was found in Wood's bo o t, t h e authorities at Paris have expressed their readiness to hand him over to the authorities in this countr y , Wood, who is known by a number of names, was a most daring burglar and a bootmaker by trade. Feßocar of WASPS. —In a small out-house at Baledgarno, used for holding broom and firewood, a colony of wasps had planted their paper palace several months ago. The house cat had taken possession of a part of the same premise s, and was rearing thre e thriving kittens among the brushwood. One day last week one of the kittens, seei n g th e wasps' nest sus pended from a twig, drew it down with one of her paws to examine it, when she was instantly assailed by hundreds of tho ferocious inmates. Her screams brought the old cat to her rescue, but, being met by a dozen or two of the enraged wasps, s h e was glad to escape, and the kitten was stung to death in a few mi- nutes. The other kittens, singularly enough, remained unscathed, not a single wasp touching either of them.— Dundee Courier. SOOT AS A MANURE FOR POTATOES.--We saw a few days ago, a few miles from this city, on e o f th e finest fields of potatoes that we have met with since the rot appeared some years since, and we are told by the intelligent occupier of the farm that the manure used was soot, and that he has tried it both with early and late potatoes with great success, the crop being large and very healthy. Since then we have met with the follow ing local letter:—" As very contradictory rumours are afloat as to the result of this year's potato crop, I should wish you to know that, as regards the few I grow, and of which the second crop has been gathered to-day, one root alone produced 87 potatoes, and the most of them good sized and perfectly sound, as all the rest of the crop were, some bearing 40, others 50, to each root. (Ma nured with soot.)"—Gloucester Chronicle. SEPTEMBER 3, 1849. THE M AGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. One of the most fascinating and scholarly contri butions we have ever read in Blackwood is contained in the number for September. Apparently, from the title, it might be deemed a mere criticism on the famous book, D' Outre Tombe, of Chateaubriand. But, on examination, it will be found to be immea surably more. It is not merely a review of those particular memoirs, but it is a critical analysis of all the most prominent of those masterly productions coming within the ample scupe of autobiography. After lamenting the irreparable loss of Hannibal's Life, written by himself, and after casting a doubt upon the authenticity of the authorship of the Commen taries, reputed to be those of Cxsar, the reviewer passes under his scrutiny the autobiographies of Gibbon, of Hume, of Scott, of Rous seau, of Alfieri, of Goethe, &c., &c. In illustration of the pervading modesty of our own autobiographers as contrasted with the French, we have here reproduced for our perusal those simple, eloquent, and touching passages in which " the greatest historian of modern times" recounted the origin and the completion of his Annals of the Rise and Fall of Rome. In testimony of the egregious vanity and contemptible egotism of the French autobiographers as compared with the English, reference is made to that absurd remark of the Abbe de Pradt, that one man overturned Na poleon, and that he was that man. We observe that the writer coincides in an opinion already expressed by ourselves, that " Raphael" contains the events of the youth of Lamartine. One of the most attrac tive, we may say at once the most attractive, excerpt in the contribution is that in which Chateau briand describes his first and only inter view with the greatest of all great men, the Emperor Napoleon. Bitterly as he hated that new Sesostris, Chateaubriand confesses that the appearance of Napoleon " struck him with an agree able surprise." "His smile was sweet," says he, " and encouraging—his eye beautiful—he had no charlatanism in his looks, nothing affected or theatri cal in his manner—he would not have been what he was if the Muse had not been there—reason in him worked out the ideas of a poet." After depicting very vividly the incidents of the interview, and telling us that Napoleon suddenly withdrew, then, says he— " Like Job in the night, .1" felt as if a spirit had passed before me ; the hairs of my flesh stood up !" These were the emotions (remembered and recorded many years afterwards) of Chateaubriand on the occasion of his first and only interview with Napoleon. " The Caxtons " still sway us with their fascination. The present instalment of the fiction is descriptive of the life, as bushmen in Australia, of Pisistratus, Vivian, and Guy B o ldi ng . Aft er fi ve years Vi v i an, having accumulated 4,0001., enters the army by his real name De Caxton, obtaining a commissio n i n a re giment in India—where he soon distinguishes himself and obtains promotion to a lieutenancy. The repro bate has been thoroughly reformed. Guy Bolding marries and settles permanently in the New World— but after ten years' absence from home, Pisistratus having gained a comfortable competence, returns to England. The hundredth chapter closes with his departure homewards from Adelaide. Out in Australia he has encountered once or twice Uncle Jack, who by improved speculations, and by returning part of the money out of which he had swindled poor Austin, partially redeems his cha- racter. Mr. Trevanion, wearied of statesmanship, retires from public life, taking his seat in the Upper House as Earl of LTlverstone. His daughter Fanny has really married Lord Castleton, and her second child is heir to her father's title. In one part of the present instalment of the " Caxtons" it is most feli citously said that " the sense of property is the core of social morals." " The Green Hand" still remains in complete, and proves only in that respect its right to the title of a " Short Yarn." " The Scottish Mar riage and Registration Bills" will secure to itself a perusal of which it is peculiarly worthy—seeing that it is a lucid and succinct epitome of a question affecting the social condition and domestic relations of a large portion of the community. A painful chapter is the one on the " Moral and Social Condi- tion of Wales," and an entertaining one,the criticism on " The Stray Reveller." " New Light on the Story of Lady Grange " furnishes another page to the curiosities of history and literature. " The Royal Progress " we take to be a leaf of our contemporary annals, from the eloquent and loyal pen of Alison. When he speaks of " the mind-quake of 1848," we cannot but recognise the voice of the eminent historian. " Christopher under Canvass" is as garrulous and as wise as heretofore—his criticism, too, is more than ever keen, ruthless, and even sometimes, notwithstanding its subtlety, absolutely barbaric. He takes a famous passage from " Childe Harold," and rends the beauty from it as pitilessly as a Red Indian would have pealed the scalp from the head of Alcibiades. IThis essay on Shakspere's character of Cleo patra is a masterpiece of criticism, and we hope to have the pleasure of again meeting this writer on Shaksperian ground. The magazine opens with a review of the works of several recent travellers, in the course of which that excellent work by Mr. Alexander Mackay, entitled the " Western World," is the subject of most deserved enlogium,: and Mr. Colman's "European Life and Manners," is as deservedly smashed. In a paper on " Fagging," that detestable system, by which boys are treated as slaves, and consequently when emanci pated from its thraldom become tyrants, is upheld and defended as a portion of " the wisdom of our ancestors"—it is needless for us to add that we differ Coto ccelo from the views of this writer. Michael South continues the very amusing "Peace Campaigns of Ensign Faunce," and Morgan Rattler gives us a metrical version of the first ode of Horace, which he hopes some scholars may in some sort fancy for its fidelity to the Horatian original. Had Morgan Rattler read Mr. Robinson's elegant translation of the same ode we are inclined to think he would not have published this version. Mr. Robinsan's transla tion is even more faithful to the original, and infinitely more graceful a n d fl ow i ng. W e h ave , b es id es , a we ll written biography of Madame Reeamier, and several other papers of interest. DAVID COPP.EI?FIELD. No. V. By Charles Dickens. Two out of the five instalments already published of "David Copperfield " have been conceived and written in the very happiest style of its illustrious author, those numbers are the second and the fifth, the number for June and the number for this present September. Little David, it will be remembered, was left at the end of the twelfth chapter in a deplorable plight, bereft of his half-sovereign, of his box, and almost, we might say, of his senses. Chapter the Thirteenth gives an enthralling and touching narrative of the poor child's misadventures on the road to Dover, and recounts the vicissitudes of hope and fear, fatigue and starvation, through which be at last reached the cottage of his aunt, Betsey Trotwood. Mr. Dolloby—S a l em House, again —one o f th e . cannon at Chatham--the maniac marine store-shop keeper—the orchards and hop-grounds in plea sant Kent the tramps and hop-pickers— the sunny streets of Canterbury, and the bare downs of Dover—the boatmen and fly-drivers, all lend their several aids to the completion of the picture. The old madman who is always screeching out " Oh, my eyes and limbs, what do you want ? Oh, my lungs and liver, what do you want ? Oh, goroo, goroo 1" is no caricature, but a marvellously truthful sketch, which presents to us a specimen of a gents unhappily rather numerous. But for her se x we s h ou ld b e di spose d , i n our enthusiasm, to call Miss Bet se y T ro t woo d a d ec id e d trump . A s it is, we must term her, most respectfully, a good, eccentric tidy, warm-hearted, strong-minded, gentle, resolute, lady, capable of any deed of heroism or generosity, from befriending poor little Davy, up to the infliction of summary punishment upon donkies and donkey drivers. Her emotion on first seeing her nephew, when she sat down and ejaculated at intervals, " Mercy on us ! letting those exclamations off like minute guns," is characteristically described. The household of Miss Trotwood consists of that admirable lady herself; of one Mr. Richard Babley, otherwise Mr. Dick, a kind of natural or half idiot (what you call "cracked"), who is alternately flying immense kites, and penning memorials, in which he perpetually introduces King Charles the First; and a blooming serving -maid, named Janet—" one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had gene rally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker." " Phiz" has illustrated the scenes enacted at Miss Tretwood's with two of his inimitable etchings, in which, as usual, he has quite caught the spirit of " Boz." The sketch of David in Mr. Dick's trousers and shirt, tied up besides in two or three shawls of Aunt Betsey's, is wonderfully ridiculous. " I don't know," says he, very innocently, " what sort of a bundle I looked, but I know I felt a very hot one." Droll, as most parts of the chapter are,' its conclusion is singularly beautiful. It is when little David describes his going up to bed for the first time in Aunt Betsey's cottage : " The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly. After I had said my prayers, and the candle had burnt out, I remember how I still sat looking at the moonlight on the water, as if I could hope to read my fortune in it, as in a bright book; or to see my mother with her child, coming from heaven, along that shining path, to lor , k upon me as she had looked when I last saw her sweet face. I remember how the solemn feeling with which at length I turned my eyes away yielded to the sensation o f gra tit u d e an d res t which the sight of the white-curtained bed—and how mueh more the lying softly down upon it, n e s tli ng in the snow- white sheets!—inspired. I remember how I thought of all the solitary places under the night sky where I had slept, and how I prayed that I never might be houseless any more, and never might forget the houseless. I re member how I seemed to float, then, down the melan choly glory of that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams." A capital: scene takes place between Miss Trotwood and Mr. Dick on the one side, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone on the other—in which interview the two latter wash their hands of David Copperfield, and the responsibility of his fortune and education is definitively assumed by aunt Betsey. By the way, that lady's reference to' the supposititious sister of David, the baby that was to have been born—Betsey Trotwood Copperfield, has an effect exquisitely absurd. Assuredly this is the very Mrs. Harris of infants. Chapter the Fifteenth records hnw David makes another beginning—being taken to Canterbury, where he is to go to school, and where he boards at the house of one Mr. Wickfield. Mr. Wickfield's house and Mr. Wickfield's little daughter Agnes are charmingly depicted, and we make the acquaintance of a personage named Uriah Heep, who, we fancy, will be no subordinate character. BENTLEY. The author of " Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain " continues his interesting " Notes of a Coroner's Clerk." The present chapters contain a narrative of the most thrilling interest, and are, to our thinking, superior to anything that e ven th e Gaol Chaplain has as yet written. Mr. Maxwell gives us a most divert ing history of the wooing and the wedding of "Dionysius O'Dogherty, Esq.," and Alfred Crowquill follows with a chapter of amusing gossip about the City of London. We are rejoiced to find Professor Creasy again in the field. Ile gives us this month, the eighth paper of his series, on " The Decisive Battles of the World." The battle of Chalons, the last victory of Imperial Rome, is the subject of the present paper. Many thanks to Mr. Robert Postans for directing the attention of tourists to the romantic beauties of the little island of Sark—scenery more beautifully romantic than that of this, the smallest of our Channel Islands, is nowhere to be found ; and Mr. Postan's description of his adven tnre in the great cave is most interesting. Mr. Warren continues the narrative of his ad ventures in the Amazon, and Sy lvanus his turf scenes and characters. We have also a romantic tale of Irish adventure, the scenery of which is laid in the county of Galway, and which is entitled the " Irish Lochinvar," which we recom mend to the attention of the concoctors of " dramas of interest." They will here find mate rials for a first-rate melodrama. The illustration to this story by Nicholson is full of spirit. " The Note book of a Coroner's Clerk" is also:illustrated. The num ber concludes with the continuation of " Chateau briand's Memoir," and several excellent reviews of the current literature of the month. FIiASER. By far the best paper in the present number of Fraser, we should not, perhaps, be far wrong if we were to say the best magazine paper of the month, is the one entitled "Shakspere's Character of Cleopatra ;" it is the work of one who has studied Shakspere in a philosophical spirit, and who can give a reason for the faith that is in him. In the opening paragraphs of this admirable essay we find the following sound canons of criticism : "It is not the business of the present paper to test the arguments of those who assert that, both as regards literary description and the plastic delineation of the human form, it is far more difficult to produce a perfect model of man, iu his energy and power, than of woman in her gentleness and the full development of her beauty. Our own opinion is, in both cases, directly opposed to them. We believe that, as in the plastic and mimetic arts, the highest genius is scarcely equal to a true repre sentation of the perfect female form; so in literature, the highest efforts of fancy and imagination lag far be hind the cunning of nature's hand in the delineation of the female character. People sometimes delude them selves into the notion that they can improve upon nature and go beyond the perfection of humanity. But this is mere self-deception. Truth constitutes the apex of the pyramid, and it matters not on which side you fall short of it; but if you fail in the verisimilitude of the cha racter you are lower than nature. It is mere delusion to imagine you can soar above her. The highest point to which humanity has reached must fix the limits of our imitation of it; for whenever we overstep those limits we become extravagant, and cease to treat of our own species. " Shak . espere appears to ha ve h e ld on t hi s su bj ect that which we believe to be the true theory, and tasked his great powers to the utmost in producing numerous pictures of womanhood, vary i ng accor di ng to t h e variety observable in nature, but invested every one of them with as much grace, delicacy, truth, and beauty, as his rare genius enabled him to bestow on them. Ile obviously did not think it an easy matter to draw a woman. Experience, to which he was wise enough to bow, taught him the contrary, and made him feel that in proportion to the apparent facility of the enterprize is its real difficulty. He was too philosophical to imagine with Pope that most women have no character at all; he perceived that the surface which appears smooth to the dim-sighted, presents a world of striking inequalites to the keen and practised eye. "Accordingly, it is scarcely too much to say that the greatest charm of Shakspere's works consist in his de lineation of female character, and that the loftiest and most idealised of them all still falls short of nature. Nor need any one be surprised at this. It is only glimpses into the recesses of the heart that the most daring and successful author can give us; only a small fragment of that universe of thought, of passion, of emotion, that dwells in the breast of man or woman, that his pen can meddle with. His most elaborate pic ture is but an outline. The filling up, the colouring, the infinite changes and fluctuations, the ever-varying shades of feeling, the countless combinations which take place every hour in the thoughts and ideas—all these defy the grasp of art, and render the wisest man an enigma to himself " To imagine, therefore, that there ever was an indi vidual who could range over the whole domain of hu man nature, penetrate through all its disguises, depict all its peculiarities, comprehend all its idiosyncracies, is to adopt a strange hypothesis, which, if breathed upon as accom plished, b y ex experience, ie e nr more e, than must any doigeor man; ut dissolve. S h b,compared aksPereh with the limitless variety of natur e, the whole extent of what he has effected but as some , land-locked bay compared with the lawagliar eble °eau' AINSWORTH. After the republication of " Crichton" the Ad mirable, perhaps a stronger contrast of subject could not have been selected than that which is afforded by the reprint of Harrison Ainsworth's fiction founded upon the story of " Fawkes" the Con spirator. In the former effective composition the reader's attention was assisted by the fanciful etchings of " Phiz ;" in the latter are reproduced the quaint illustrations of Cruikshank. The present instalment (being one of agreeable length) presents once more the plates so familiar•to , our recollection--Guy Fawkes preventing Sir William Radcliffe from joining the conspiracy, and the vision of Guy Fawkes at Saint Ronan's Well. Chapter the seventh of " Cambrian Tales" is devoted to some entertaining reminiscences. One William Auburn, Esq., favours the readers of .Ainsworth with a trifle called " The Haunted House, a legend of Edmon ton"—of which we defy any one to make head or tail, good, bad, or indifferent. Carpenter's verses " Dreaming and Waking" are graceful ; and among the rest of the contributions we may mention the continuation of the "Countess de Rudolstadt," and some attractive magazine tales about " Jacob Van Der Neess," about a " Fallen Merchant," and about " Mesmerism." TII.E UNITED SER VICE. We have, on more than occasion, recorded our sense of the monstrous injustice inflicted upon Captain Douglas, and we consequently feel much pleasure in drawing attention to the clear and masterly manner in which the trial of that ill-used officer is treated in the opening article of this spirited periodical : " A trial," says the writer, " which we hope, for the sake of humanity and justice, and for the honour and security of the military service, may stand alone without a parallel, as a solitary instance of the fallibility of hu man judgment, the total misapprehension of the result of evidence, and of the misconception of the nature and character of military law." A few opening pages on "The Hungarian Cam paign" will be perused with interest by the sympa thisers with the gallant Magyars. There is a very graphic and accurate account of the memorable combat between the Shannon and Chesapeake, from the same familiar pen which has previously sketched the celebrated frigate actions of the Arethusa and Belle Poule, and of the Blanche and Pique. In a short account of the proceedings of the Indian Army, connected with the passage of the Chenaub, and the action at Soodolapore, there is a handsome and convincing tribute to the merits of the gallant Thackwell, whose services in the field have been hi therto very inadequately acknowledged. The tour in the rich and magnificent province of Mazanderan is con cluded, and the remaining papers are of an a verage excellence. Nothing, indeed, unworthy of pages ofe Peru'ai is ever found to disfi g ure the enter taining and instructive magazine.V t his rcommend the papers on " The Army Movementl" to the serious and attentive consideration of all well-wishers to the service. THE D n i ation U a l l Vi n j a - g E Z l in S e iT fo l ; . the pre sent The number of this month very appropriately opens with a notice of our Gracious Queen's visit to the sister isle. It is overflowing with the most fervid loyalty and affection. w e glory, says the writer, "in our Queen, and we are proud of our countrymen for the reception which they gave her. There is not a man of the thousands who rushed forward to tender his homage, and give assurance of his l o y a lt y, w h o does not feel his breast glow with a conscious satisfaction, that in no part of her dominions has her Majesty met with such a reception, and that it never can be surpassed. Of strong passions, of ardent imagination, and with a deference to rank and sex unequalled at this age in any country, Irishmen found, in devotion to their Queen, the true object for one of the strongest and most generous emotions of their nature." The second piper it notice of an interesting " Memoir and Cor• - respondence of Sir Robert Murray Keith, K. 8.," edited by Mrs. Gillespie Smyth ; then follows a con inuation of the series of "Wicked Women," contain ing a graphic history of the famed Catherine de Medicis. The next is a paper on what our learned contemporary is pleased to term " Rail way Literature." And we cannot better illustrate his opinion of these cheap publications " these catchpenny prints of the railway and steam boat saloon," than by transferring to our columns the anecdote which he records of the late Daniel O'Con nell, who " Meeting one day an author newly-fledged and greatly elated by the hit of his literary first-born, shook him heartily by the hand, saying, Well, my dear fellow, I congratulate you sincerely on the suc cess of your book ; I have seen something extremely good in it." What was it—eh ?' said the delighted author, rubbing his hands and blushing. A mutton pie, my dear fellow,' replied the Liberator, chuckling slyly." We cannot avoid extracting as an offering to our readers who sympathise with the brave, though unfortunate Magyars, the following stanzas on Hun gary : HUNGARY. Away ! would you own the dread rapture of war Seek the host-rolling plain of the mighty Magyar; Where the giants of 3 ore from their mansions come down, O'er the oceaa-wide floor play the game of renown. Hark ! hark ! how the earth 'neath their armamentreelst In the hurricane charge—in the thunder of wheels ; How the hearts of the forests rebound as they pass, In their mantles of smoke, through the quaking morass 1 In the tent of Dembinski the taper is dim, But no need for the dusk light of tapers for him: In the mind of the chief—in his intellect's ray— All the war stands revealed with the splendour of day. God! the battle is joined! Lord of Battles, rejoice! Freedom thunders her hymn in the battery's voice— In the soaring hurrah—in the half-stifled moan— Sends the voice of her praise to the foot of thy throne. Oh hear, God of Freedom, thy people's appeal ; Let the edges of slaughter be sharp on their steel, And the weight of destruction and swiftness of fear Speed death to his mark in their bullets' career! Holy Nature, arise! from thy bosom in wrath Shake the pestilence forth on the enemy's path, That the tyrant invaders may march by the road Of Sennacherib invading the city of God ! As the stars in their courses 'gainat Sisera strove, Fight, mists of the tens, in the sick air above; As Scamander his carcasses flung on the foe, Fight, floods of the Theiss, in your torrents below ! As the snail of the Psalmist consuming away, Let the moon -melted masses in silence decay; Till the track of corruption alone in the air Shall tell sickened Europe the Russ has been there ! Stay! stay! in thy fervour of sympathy pause, I,or become inhumane in humanity's cause ; If the poor Russian slave have to wrong been abused, Are the ties of Christ's brotherhood all to be loosed? The mothers of Moscow who offer the breast To their orphans, have hurts, as the mothers of Pest; Nor are love's aspirations more tenderly drawn From the bosoms of youth by the Theiss than the Don. God of Russian and Maygar, who ne'er hest designed Save one shedding of blood for the sins of mankind, No demon of battle and bloodshed art thou, To the war-wearied nations be pitiful now I Turn the hearts of the kings—let the Maygar again Reap the harvests of peace on his bountiful plain; And if not with renown, with affections and lives, Send the poor Russians home to their children and wives! But you fill all my bosom with tumult once more— What! Georgey surrendered! What! Bern's battles o'er! What! the horrible Haynau victorious!—Oh God, Give us patience to bow to thy terrible rod! Weep, Freedom! in all thy last citadels, weep, From the Adrian mole to the Adrian deep ; And England, seducer, deserter! prepare On the heights of the Koosh for the hug of the Bear! " Ceylon and the Cingalese" is continued, and is, as usual, full of entertaining and useful information, and will be read with deep attention by all who feel an interest in one of the most important of our colonial possessions. We have lately been favoured with a view of a moat beautifully executed map of this colony, about to be brought out under the auspices of C. W. Payne, Esq., to whom the British public owe a debt of gratitude for the energy and perseverance with which he directs public attention to the great advantages to be gained by developing the resources of this great and fertile island. The next is " A Septem ber Garland," by D. F. M. C., being poetical trans lations from several languages, all admirable. Our space will not permit us to add to the extracts already made ; we must, therefore, dismiss the " September Garland" with this tribute to its merits, that its tints resemble an autumnal landscape, which though " in colour may vary, in beauty may vie." The other papers of this month's number are, " The Canadas— How long can we hold them ?" "The Undergraduate— My First Day at College;" " Philip Marsden, or the Experiment," a graphic and stirring tale; " Lament of a Roman Patriot;" " Lines, written the day before the Queen's arrival in Dublin ;" " Venice, a poem ;" concluding with " The City of London and the New Plantation." THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. Our contemporary is as usual intelligent, and more than usually miscellaneous. From the "Revenues of the Church" to the "Curiosi ties of Glass- making," from " Hinton's Doc trine of Immortality" to " Sir Charles Lyell's United States," from the " Scripture Testimony of the Messiah" to " \Verne's Expedition to the White Nile," the writers for the Eclectic range with a really eclectic facility of appreciation. Three other papers in the number for September possess for us a para mount interest. First of all the article on the " Early Life of Chateaubriand," from the familiarity we have acquired with that portion of the career of a great man from his fascinating and eloquent " Armoires d' Outre Tontbe." Who that has read the preliminary chapters in that posthumous autobiography does not bear in vivid recollection the pale and angelic form of Lucille, the austere and eccentric tacitur nity of the " father," the picturesque loneliness of the castellated chateau at Combourg, the forest depths of America, and the bloody orgies in Paris during the first revolution ? The criticism in the Eclectic closes with a sort of half prophecy of another Reign of Terror. The second contribution to which we have alluded is a clever and generously toned essay on the genius and " Works of William Etty," suggested by the splendid collection of his paintings now on vi ew in the Adeiphi. The critic appears to rank Etty immediately after Hogarth, Leslie, and Turner, in their different characteristics of expression, thought, and poetry. The third of the principal contributions for the September number is a careful and sequential epitome of the ri g ht s a t s t a k e recen tly b e t ween " Austria and Hungary." In the opinion of the writer, " the name of Louis liossuth will be regis tered with that of George Washington,"—a prediction which will not be the less surely realised now that his great and patriotic efforts have for the time being proved ineffectual. Unfortunately for this excellent synopsis, its interest has become materially dissipated by the treasonous submission of Georgey to Prince Paske witch. THE WEEKLY REGISTER. l a v re eek b ly len a d n e a d together Dolman's ag A new periodical,. ir azlne i a n nd wh t i h c e h Orthodox, has just been commenced, under th e ti t l e of the Weekly Register. As an organ of the Catho lics throughout England, it gives admirable promise, and we doubt not, if sustained to its present excel lence, will enjoy the united popularity of its two pre decessors. Besides several illustrative wood engrav ings, the publication has the mingled attraction of a magazine and a newspaper—containing, at once, con temporary intelligence and a miscellaneous assortment of tales, essays, and versification. AMERICAN CRITICISM.—An American paper says of the celebrated Mr. Emerson:—" It is quite oat of character to say that Mr. Emerson lectures—he does no such thing—he drops nectar—he chips out sparks—he exhales odours—he lets off mental sky-rockets and fire works—he spouts fire, and, conjuror -like, draws ribands out of his mouth. He smokes, he sparkles, he impro vises, he shouts, he sings, lie explodes like a bu ndle of crackers—he goes off in fiery eruptions like a volcano, but he does not lecture." Another paper rhapsodies in the following strain:—" We can hardly call it criticism, for he does not properly criticise —he plays around the subject like a humming-bird round a honeysuckle—he darts at it like a fish-hawk after a pike. He looms up like a thunder cloud, comes down in a shower of tinkling fire upon the praries. He plays leet s , and with rol s figuresaw a o Y f s l p ik ee e ch l ike a juggler, balancing the sentences on his chin, and keeping up six with each hand. Hi s fancy goes up like the jet of a fire-engine, and comes down in a spiral ecstacy like a Peruvian condor. He is a detonating pthire i t mixture ua — tbtl a l ee: percussion ca p child vibrating b h me teoric shower—as unheard-ofe and over the edg e o f a chaos, and swi ngs tweeen shakes the his rattleo on the gates of the past— an d s i ts lik e a nightingale iu golden ring suspended by a silver cord from a nail driven into th , e L zenith." w tIhI c atth lm e ECMMENTS.—The h um bl er c l asses assem bledthe plainnessl andin g of her a!, Glasgoww ere prodigiously pleased Majesty's dress, h an e d r the ch h i o ldn m r ly e simplicity o f her deportment towards They wer e d e li g ht e d to fi n d t h e Queen, to use their oewa. phrase, "so much like other folk." A group of the pure aborigines were overheard expatiating on these themes while her Majesty was in the Cathedral. A shrewd weaver was loud in his praises of the Queen's economy of dress. " Mony a brew leddy that walks the streets in silks and satins mieht tollow the example of her Majesty, and no be less a leddy after a'." "Deed mony a shopkeeper's wife dresses better than the Queen, and can ill afford it," remarked a second. " The puirest among us mieht tale a lesson free the Queen, rejoined a third of the party. And a fine gash old matron added authoritatively, and withal in a tone of enthusiasm that did one's heart good to hear it—" She's just a rale decent woman at Name, and looks after her ain weans." " Wheu I saw her sittin' beside them," said a motherly body, "my heart geed to my mouth, and I eculd has ta'en her in my arms!" Ilow true is it that " one touch of nature makes the whole world kin." 1 10