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j!tdy, but when be bore in miqd tl'e acts of great fami tarity deposed to by the wiinesses, he could not, under those eireumstane-s, resist the prayer of the husband, and it would be idle in him to trouble the Court with any further observations. Dr. LUSUINGTON—Let this cause stand over. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY (Before Mr. Secoudary POTTER.) WHITMORE AND ANOTHER V. FRENCH. The Plaintiffs are wholesale stationers, and sought to recover the sum of 61. 13s. 2d. for goods supplied. The defendant pleaded that ho was net indebted. The facts were these, the defendant had joined a person named Noble in business, and goods were supplied. The busi ness was carried on in the name of Noble, and plaintiffs did not at first know that defendant was the person who found the money, but on ascertaining he received a share of the profits, they brought the action against him alone ; andi no plea had been made in abatement, in con sequence, of Noble not being joined in the action. The Learned SECONDARY held that if the defendant was a partner, he was of course legally bound, although he was termed as sleeping or dormant partner. The jury ;round for the plaintiffs, for the amount IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. Cholera, though not to any great extent, has bro ken out among the troops stationed in Ship street Barracks, adjoining the Castle yard. The situation of the buildings is close and unwholesome. The 2d, the Queen's Regiment of Foot, which occupied the barracks when the disease appeared, were this day Placed under canvass, a camp having been formed in Phcanix Park. The weather has undergone a change today, it baying rained heavily since the morning. No day has yet been named for the interview between Lord Clarendon and the deputation in behalf of the state prisoners. The names of 14 Lieutenants were this day appended to the memorial. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following officers attended the levee of the First Lord of the Admiralty yesterday:—Vice-Admiral Jackson, Rear-Admiral Sir E. C. Strode, Captains U. W. Bruce (late of the Queen), G. H. Seymour, J. C. Fitzgerald, Sir E. Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., T. P. Thomp son, F. Scott, C. Bosanquet, Sir P. Broke, Bart., xeynott, Robb; Commanders Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, W. Morris, Peter Duthey, E. S. Sotheby, R. Conte, T Stuart, T. P. Dobree, T. G. Drake, C. J. Balfour, H. Byng ; Lieutenants C. T. Compton, W. Greet, J. W. Dorville, A. Royer, E. B. Rice, W. Thorpe; Master E. Dunsterville. After the levee Sir Francis Baring proceeded to his country seat in Hampshire. The Arrogant, 36, screw-frigate, Captain Robert Fitzroy, having i taken on board her foreign sea-service ff stores, was hauled onto the stream at Portsmouth on Monday, and yesterday, at three o'clock, proceeded out of harbour to Spithead, steaming out against a strong flood tide, taking a large party of ladies and gentlemen outlin her. She has been fresh painted, and is immersed something deeper in the water than before, by which her appearance has been much improved. She is de cidedly the most splendid, and altogether the most handsome-looking frigate that we have seen. The upper edge of her copper is now a foot or more out of the water, although she has taken in 85 tons of iron ballast. We think double the quantity would not have been too much for her. She took her powder and live shells in after her arrival at Spithead. She will forthwith proceed to Lisbon, and from thence up the Straits to Malta. The Niger and Basilisk steam-sloops, have now their defects repaired at Devonport, and are ready to proceed on further experimental trials. The Salamander steam sloop, in charge of Mr. Mills, !ailed from Portsmouth for Chatham on Sunday even with the Marines of that division paid off from the Queen. The Salamander will go on to Woolwich to have some alteration made in her engines. The Columbia, 3, surveying steam-vessel, Commander s hortland, was aid advance at Devonport, on Monday, When she sailed for the Bay of Fundy. APPOINTMENTS. Masters—Samuel Twyford to the Victory, 104, flag ,BlllP at Port s mo u th ; Mr. S. L. Peilo to the Ocean, 46, " a g - ship at Sheerness. Boatswain—Matthew Newby to the Tortoise, store and guard ship at the Island of Ascension. Midshipmen—Nicholas Turnour to the Superb, 80, at'Spithead; William F. Ruxton to the Superb; Charles w oodman to the Victory; Reginald Purvis to the Vic tW ./ Z 1. 3 7 ; D. M. Campbell to the Castor, 36, at Chatham; ~.,• P. Marescaux to the Castor; E. J. Lawson to the uastings, 72, flag-ship in China; A. H. W. Battiscombe t , t) the Hastings ; William Templer to the Impregnable, 404 , flag-ship at Devonport ;F. Fletcher to the Dragon steam frigate, on the Irish coast: Henry Moore to the Caled on i a , 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean. Naval Cadets—Edmund Smith to the Superb; Noel Osborne to the Caledonia; H. Thursby to the Caledonia; Silverlock, to the Caledonia. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.—The Nelscn, 120, having had her periodical overhaul in dock, is again ready for mud service, and will be undocked this evening or to-morrow, and give place to the Rodney, 92, also to undergo a refit. The Ileynard screw-schooner, 11, Commander era craft, is ordered to sail on the sth fur Madeira, Cape de Verd Islands, Ascension, and Sierra Leone, with the mail for the coast of Africa, whence she p rocee d s t o t h e "Pe and East Indies to join the squi.dron under the command of Sir Francis Collior. The Mountstuart Elphinstone convict-ship arrived here this morning from London. The Euphrates freight-ship sailed to-day with detach- Haents for St. Helena, which she embarked at Cowes. The Sylvia surveying -vessel, Commander Bedford, sailed to day for Cork. Wind, S., light breezes and fine weather. WcaLwicx, MAY 29.—Letters have been received at Woolwich announcing the arrival of the Atholl troop !hip, Master-Commander Pearn, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, after a fine run of twenty-six days from Ports- Mouth, and having on board three companies of Royal Artill er y, ono f or service at St. John's, New Brunswick, and two for service in Canada. The Atholl arrived at Quebec on the 11th of May, and lauded Captain Tuite's com p a ny, 4th battalion, and Major Hennis's c impany, 2d battalion, at the station. Captain Saudham's corn tnY, Ist battalion, had previously left Quebec for ta le Man, to relieve Captain Mundy's company, 3.1 bat -", 7 3) the latter being under orders to return to Wool tv'eti in the Atholl, with Captain Crofton's company, 7th attalion, from Montreal; and Captain Ormsby's corn- P"Y, 6th battalion, from St. John's, New Brunswick. at Th e n Vixen steam sloop, Commander Jenner, arrived A lif Nova Scotia, from Bermuda, on the 29th of h o P r d, and had encountered very severe weather, having ter en bo at , a nd t o p u t ba c k with loss of mainmast, guar oat, and oth er ar ti c l e s. L r he Mountstu ar t Elphinstone, commanded by Captain cha n eY, and having 250 convicts on board, under the r g e af Dr. Mo xe y, left her moorings opposite the Ya l Arsenal on Saturday afternoon last, for Moreton ' New South Wales. st ea , Lku i, Alq, MAY 28.—The Salamander advanced att en — i i s P, in charge of Mr. Milli, assistant-master „ oh !int at Devonport-yard, arrived this day, and dis raokasred the following Royal Marines:—JB7 men of all of C an i r ? rn the Queen, paid off at Devonport, in command _ L 6 al so r a tn A. Campbell, with Lieuteaant W. Masters; R 0 .. t0 4.10g1e Pa d Marines, in command of Li R. off from the Alarm, 26, at Dcvon eutenant port, on the theinstant; and o ne co rporal and one private, from Sol F avourite, 15 guns, pa id o ff at t h e same pl ace on th e c luart nst"t. The above 205 men j oined their head the 8 era at this divi s i on . Th e S a l aman d er l e f t th e r i ver ame d ay. he Cleop a t ra , 26 guns, Captain H. L. Massie, sails i p e uci this port to-morrow afternoon for the Nore, where vvill be inspected by th Port Admiral, and after 'ng paid advance wages wi e ll proceed to sea. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MAY 29. The Queen and Prince and the younger branches of th e Royal Family, walked and rode in the Park and rounds at Osborne at an early hour this morning. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes terday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her R oyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucest er House. Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined " 1 1 the members of the Nulli Secundus Club yesterday eve ning r at the Clarendon Hotel. I lex Royal Highness the Duc hess of Kent, attended 7 Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Coupe!, and Lord It 4 o eB Murray, honoured the performance of the Royal 14110 pera House with her presence yesterday evening. thr,Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited th© w'Yal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and e nereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenbur h Strelitz l' e r l telli ftY at Cambridge House. His Serene g Highness Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal visited thFirßoy s a! ter 4 d -l !seses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ye 4 0 1:liv ille service was performed yesterday in the Chapel the 1 1 ' St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley administered se: "' r aiment. The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach the 1110 4 in the Chapel Royal on Sunday next. Ito. f day about th .AL A UTERNITY CHARlTY.— Yeste rday C rt Y ei the foremost friends of this institution sat down o : ati excellent dinner at the Lcndon Tavern, given "Itnernorate its anniversary; Lord Robert Grosvenor Presided • e l m . and In a very feeling manner advocated the Claims of the charity, which, he said, had now been in :miax_istenc for nearly 100 years, and had during that period nistered relief to more than 400,000 poor married " l en. The past year presented an increase of 231 , e . a ses, and it was clear that the usefulness of the institu tion had not yet reached its limit, though the births at which it assisted now exceededexcee one in every two hours. The Noble Chairman upon the ben( fits which the charity conferred in attending destitute women at their own homes, and in training for that purpose a large number of midwives, whose services, under ordinary circumstaces, were more acceptable and beneficial to t he poorer classes than those of sur , eoas. He concluded by enforcing the claims of distress generally upon the 2):rnpathies of the wealthy, and by pointing out the advantage as well as the propriety of attending to the of of those whom Providence has left exposed to the !visitations of poverty and sickness. A number of appro. i)ruiate toasts were proposed, and duly responded to rin g t h e evening, among hich the services of the medical and other officers connected with the charity Were not forgotten. The amount of subscriptions an licd Was about 2501. The musica arrangements were 1,,/der the direction of Mr. Ransford, l aud were excellent. .1. .11.1.1arker was toastmaster. LITERA TURE EVELYN ; or a Journey from Stockholm to Rome in 1847-48. By Miss Bunbury. 2 Vols. These two very delightful volumes combine the attractions of a book of travels and a novel, and the combination produces a happy effect. We dwell on the peculiarities of the countries through which we pass without being condemned to the formal routine of a voyage of discovery, and we become, incidentally as it were, acquainted with the characters and his tories of our companions without for a moment being led to suppose that the relation of their histories is the object of our journey. Truth and fiction are so admirably interwoven, that it is impossible to define where the "actual" ends and the "ideal" begins. These volumes would seem to be a journal of Miss Banbury's tour in 1847 and 1848, and the de scriptions of many of the scenes and incidents are evidently truthful. But the " journey," as we see from the title-page, is only a secondary conside ration ; the fortunes of Evelyn are our chief subject of interest. Evelyn is in every way fitted for a heroine of romance, she has bright golden hair, she is always dressed in white, and we do not remember that her surname is ever once mentioned. She is wandering alone throughout the world, in possession of a "secret" which she may reveal to no one. Such is Evelyn when our authoress finds her ; she takes pity on her unprotected state, and the authoress and the heroine journey together from Stockholm to Rome. Romantic (in the novel reader's sense of the term) and improbable as is the situation of Evelyn, it is simply described, and her own character is so beautiful and so natural that we forget the unnaturalness of her position, and only see and appreciate the tinge ofromance which her presence infuses into the narrative. What we like best in this work is the unaffected easy style in which it is written. No matter what the subject may be, and the subjects touched upon are most various, whether a love story—and there are no less than three such interesting episodes in the two volumes ; or a politic a l discussion—and there are not a few such naturally occasioned by the state of Europe, then on the eve of revolution (for the fol lowing sentence might have been applied to a wider field than Venice, which was the spot so apostro phised :—" The strong heel of a vast consolidated power is pressed upon thy heart ; but that heart is now heaving beneath it; its life is returning, and at this moment who can tell what may not be on the morrow ?")—whether it be some amusing traveller's adventure or a graphic description of some town or village, or sketches of various compagnons de voyage, it is all one to Miss Bunbury's pen—it runs on in the same natural and delightful manner that makes the reader quite at home with the authoress and the heroes and heroines, and the scenes which she de scribes. Having said enough of the mysterious Evelyn to enlist for her the sympathy of all lovers of the marvellous, and having spoken of the charming manner in which her story is narrated, we pass over the remainder of the dramatis persone,—the good hearted, good-humoured uncle and aunt Patrick, and their gifted nephew Albert, travelling far and wide in search of health and life even, while the best elixir is by his side, but withheld from his grasp; the noble baron, Oscar, the hopeless lover of Evelyn, and the gentle Lilla, who would fain be in her place. We pass over these and many other remarkable per sonages, and with a few specimens of the various at tractions we have enumerated, we will take leave of Miss Bunbury till " next time," which we hope will not be very far distant. Here is a travelling adven ture more amusing, doubtless, to the reader than to the actors. Their guide-book had told the travellers that "at Mrs. Todd's hotel, at Gottenburg, all the household speaks English," this being a great desi deratum to persons unacquainted with Swedish—to Mrs. Todd's they went., A young woman was sum moned to attend them. " The young woman regarded us with all the quiet gravity or her nation, when in repose; I saw she was made over to us, and with a smile, I said— "' You speak English, min flika?' " Yes,' she answered. " I nodded bath to her and Evelyn, and feeling quite at home now, we entered the inn. " ' As they all speak Engli.h here, we can get any thing; shall I order cutlets and tea, Evelyn?' " Very well.' " Can you give us tea?' I asked of the tall flika. " Yes,' she replied, very gravely. "' And some mutton cutlets?' Yes.' " Be so good as to get them directly, with fresh bread and butter, and some boiled milk.' " Yes.' She stood as if waiting for a more luxuriant order; but as I turned away, she did so too. " Evelyn lay down on her bed, I took possession of the red sofa. Being accustomed to Austrian, Tyrolese, and German waiter'•, we were naturally patient, and let our Swedes take their time; but when a whole hour had passed, my longing for tea became irresistible. " Will it never come?' I eriel " I v.iih you would call for it,' said Evelyn's languid voice, from the inner room. Fortunately there was a bell, and a bell-rope. In answer to its summons came a different flika, who was an exception to the English.. speaking household of Mrs. Todd. She poured forth a flood of soft words, not one of which I understood; and finding I did not respond to her eloquence, the non-English-speaking Swede came nearer, and repeated the same at my ear. "' She means,' said Evelyn, to tell you that the flika who speaks Eaglish will come presently.' " ' Oh, then, we will wait,' I answered, thinking she might as well understand my language as I hers; but in addition I nodded my head, and uttered the word, which in Swedish signifies good, but looks irreverent in our eye—'ged.' " She went away, and we waited. flow very ridiculous,' I said, it is to coma to a country without understanding the language, though no one thinks of learning that of Sweden." . . " ' But, Evelyn, is this "tea and chops " to come at all?' " Pray ring again; perhaps our good English genius is now at hand.' " But I thought all the household spoke English well;' so with a heavy sigh I rose off the sofa and rang again. " In, to our joy, came the English-speaking flika. " Have ou got the tea and cutlets ready ?' " Yes.' Will you bring them, then, directly ?' " ' Ycs.' " We waited again. " It is ncce.iaiiry to have patience,' said Evelyn; you know in Sweden it is hard to get anything after &tic. o'clock.' " Yes; but I would not eat a morsel in the boat to day, because I knew that here, where all the household spoke English, we could have even what they thought were our national whims satisfied.' " Try to sleep,' said Evelyn, still in her dormitory. " ' I cannot, I am so hungry.' " I got up and rang again; in came the grave tall Swede. " ' We are tired waiting for this tea and cutlets.' " ' Yes.' " ' Is yes the only word of English you can say?' " ' Yes.' " A heavy burst of laughter, much as I dislike the words, followed the last yes' we extracted from the English speaking member of this English-speaking household. Our tea and cutlets, alas! were somewhere, I suppose, in the kingdom of Utopia." From a very interesting conversation on the relative peculiarities of England and Denmark, we extract one very significant passage : " Poor little Denmark, which you have heard Ger mans a hundred times say ought not to be a separate kingdom, allots twenty thousand two hundred and twenty pounds to the advancement of science and litera ture; and one thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds to paying the travelling expenses of young artists and men of genius, like Thorwaldsen and Andersen, both of whom were sent to Rome; where you know the former, after a long struggle, was brought into notice by an Englishman: thus Denmark gives her literary and scientific sons their first push, launches them on the sea of life with an oar to begin the struggle; and if, like Thorwaldsen, they mount its waves triumphantly, wel comes them back with open arms." To which it is bitterly, but alas ! too truthfully, rejoined—" Denmark gave her lowly son a pension, and lent him wings to climb ; in England it would have been more politic or patriotic to have let him die, and to have pensioned his widow or his child." The following very beautiful definition of the intel lectual happiness of life is given to Albert (the in• valid genius of whom we have spoken) on his de parture for his momentous journey : " Is such the end, then,' I said with bitterness, for which you would prolong my life ? ' " 'lt is ; but if it were attained, I do not say I should desire to prolong it no further. Oh no! I believe that the intellects and faculties, powers or principles, which God has given us, can be trained and cultivated in this life, so as to lead to a proportionate development in that which is to succeed it ; and that as their measure is reached here will be the fulness or scantiness of their meas ure hereafter. Therefore, do an apprenticeship a longlifeappearsto to m a e a great blessing, when it is made thing of nought, this life a boon that is almost better withdrawn, p rovided pious people do,I cannot i wor lds a think, as some most ha higher state of b t ein can feel our peace is made with that in resigning it we t this g. restore to us the exercise blessed saerifice was offered to God through the atonemen t of the Redeemer. That of our immortal powers, to open to us the entrance to - God which the fall of man from his hi g h estate had closed ; but this time state is only the school of the spirit, and this mortal breath but the ger m of an im mortal existence ; as it grows here it mu s t grow be stowed upon it, will be its expansion in a state, the nature here after ; and I believe that, according to the culture of which is us yet to us unknown. " would wish you to live, Albert, and not only to 'anguish out a precarious existence, but, if God's will might so b e d one , t o li ve i n th e f u ll exercise of your in tellectual pow e r s , and i n th e f u ll en j oymen t o f those large capacities with which you are endowed ; to live so that such genius as God has given you might be raised and purifi, d ; yet such talents as you possess aspire to more than all that even three score years and ten, at their best estate, can achieve.' " Beatrice ceased, yet I was silent; but MU then a new light broke in 04 a darkened soul." THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1849. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE. Translated from the German. By Mary Norman 3 Vols. A t the Literary Fund anniversary dinner, the other day, the historian Alison very modestly disclaimed any praise on the ground of the popularity of his his tory of Europe, by observing that he had been fortu nate in the selection of his theme. lie had written, he said, " concerning a period when truth had become romance, when courage had merged into heroism, and when, to be interesting, the historian had only to be faithful." Whether in all respects the speaker himself possessed that necessary qualification of "faithfulness" we will not now stop to consider, but the passage we have just quoted may be indeed applied to the theme of the novel above- mentioned. Was not the year eighteen hundred and twelve the year of all others during that momentous period when truth and romance, courage and heroism, historical and interesting became synonymous terms ? In penning any narrative of the events of the Russian campaign it might have been supposed that the ima gination of the rotnancist would he little taxed, but the author of this, in all respects most interesting work, thought otherwise., Ile has endeavoured in this instance to make fiction as strange as truth. The historical and the imaginary contents of " 1812" are both marvellous and enthralling. The only fault we could find with the work as a whole is that it gives us too much an embarras de richesses. Its heroes and heroines are of all nations, Russian, German, French, &c. Europe is the field of action, and the terrible retreat of the French army one of its most important incidents. To give a resume of such a work would be almost a matter of impossibility. As an evidence of its historical attractions, let us say that the account here given of the retreat is in many re spects a counterpart of the heart-thrilling, but, as Gourgaud has triumphantly proved, the very exag gerated narrative of Count Segur. The incidents of that terrible journey are many of them too painful to peruse. They are described with a naturalness and minuteness which of course heightens their gloomy interest. The battle scenes are painted in a vivid, dashing manner ; the author is a soldier we are told, and that is enough to assure us they are depicted con amore. One of the heroines of the tale is the daughter, or rather the supposed daughter of a Russian noble of harsh and arbitrary character. The Russian house hold scenes thus introduced give an idea of the hor rors of the serf system. One of the most marvellous fictitious incidents is rendered peculiarly startling from the fact of its being (though the most improbable thing in the world) not actually improbable. A French soldier renders some important service one dark night to two travellers, a young maiden and her father ; in order to know them again he changes rings with the lady, and, to his dismay, finds, after her departure, that he has not changed the rings after all, but in the confusion has put his own back on his finger. So he thinks; but some time after, when his ring is examined (as it is the only clue he possesses to the discovery of a lost sister), it appears that it is not the same—the young stranger was his sister, and they had changed rings without knowing it—the rings being almost alike. This little incident loses much in the abbreviation. In the novel its effect is startling, from the fact, as we have already said, o f i ts b e i ng morally, b ut not actually impossible. With wonderful incidents of all kinds " Eighteen Hundred and Twelve " abounds. The best definition we can give of its character is ex pressed in the word interesting. It is interesting in matter, both fictitious and real, and it is interesting in manner, for it is well written and full of animation and energy. ROCKINGHAM; or the Younger Brother. 3 Vols. Colburn, 1849. The author of "Rockingham" is, we believe, a new candidate for literary honours, and he has no reason to be displeased with the fate of this, his first venture. He has produced not only the novel of the season, but a book that will outlive the season and become a standard work. We consider "Rockingham" as the new " Waverley" of a series of fictions destined to expose the social evils of which the higher classes of society in this country are the victims, and we look forward to the day when the Rockingham Novels will take their place on the bookshelf by the side of the Waverley series. The object of " Rockingham" is to expose the misery inflicted by the law of primo geniture upon those very families for whose benefit that most unnatural law is supposed to be enacted ; and after the perusal of this most interesting tale, we believe that the firmest upholder of that law will be inclined to admit that the sacrifices made to maintain it are greater than its maintenance is worth, and that for the sake of the aristocracy themselves it would be well that it should be, if not repealed, at least greatly modified. The hero of the story, Lord Edward Rockingham, is the younger son of the Marquis of Arlingford, and as all the attention of the family is devoted to the nurturing of the eldest son Lord Elmswater, the heir to the title and estates, Rockingham is left to follow the bent of his own inclinations until the time arrives for his being seLt to school. And in the description of Rockingham's school life our author exposes another social evil for which it will be more easy to provide s. remedy than for the evils arising from the law of pri megeniture. lie is sent to a public school, in which (as in all great public schools to this hour) the beastly, the degrading, the shame destroying punishment of flogging seems to be the only means adopted for preserving discipline. The effects of this punishment are most vividly pour trayed by our author the boy who has never been subjected to it maintains his self-respect, and leaves no effort untried to endeavour to avoid this chastisement ; but once flogged he feels him self degraded, and he invariably becomes subject to the lash again and again until the sense of shame is deadened, that which he had formerly shrunk from he now almost courts as affording him an opportunity of showing his superiority to physical pain, that which had been a degradation has become a martyrdom, and that which had been dreaded as a disgrace is gloried in as a triumph. The effects pro duced by this school discipline upon the man in after life are admirably pourtrayed by our author. " The child is father to the man," and so long as those classes from whom our army and navy are officered, our legislators taken, our priests ordained, our magistrates appointed, shall be subjected in their boyhood to these disgraceful, debasing, soul-hardening punishments, so long must every attempt to improve the moral condition of our soldiers and our sailors, to reform the inmates of our goals, or to give a higher moral tone to social legislation be abortive. The men to whom the carrying out of these reformatory measures is entrusted are incompetent to do so; they were in their younger days slaves governed solely by the lash, they can appeal to no higher motive of conduct than fear, they know of no other. Can we be surprised that the slave emancipated becomes a tyrant ? Talk to him of exciting feelings of shame in the mind of an evil-doer as a means of reformation, he understands you not, the feeling of shame is dead within him—he has acquired at school a habit of degradation. " I was devilishly well flogged at school myself," said Colonel White, at the inquest on the soldier who was flogged to death at Hounslow. The Colonel was evidently not aware at the time of the importance of the admission. From school Rockingham enters the navy, and is at the battle of St. Vincent, and at the attack on Teneriffe with Nelson, and nothing can exceed the vigour and spirit of the descriptions of those actions, they are quite equal to the best of the nau tical descriptions of Cooper. He is wounded at Teneriffe, and is nursed and tendered by Donna Dolores, a young and lovely Spaniard, who possesses all the warmth of affection and romance which are so characteristic of her countrywomen. The character of Dolores is admirably drawn. From Teneriffe he takes passage in a merchant ship for Lisbon, is wrecked, escapes alone on a rock, forms a raft, puts to sea, and is picked up by a French frigate. Ulti mately he returns to England, when all had considered him dead, save and except his cousin, Sophia Waldegrave, between whom and himself the most tender affection had subsisted from childhood. During his absence the Mar quis had become embarrassed, he had, to maintain the family dignity, expended enormous sums in supporting his eldest son, Lord Elmswater, in contesting the county, and his estate deeply mort gaged before, becomes still more heavily encum bered. In order to relieve the estate, the Mar quis and his son bad previously to the return of Rockingham endeavoured to bring about a marriage between Elmswater and Sophia Waldegrave, whose fortune would pay off all the incumbrances. Not withstanding the cordial affectione sdtuoignobtsiiststyaicn orgiffibeteeht:th'aeenei; Rockingham and S o phi a th e sc h eme i s persevered in, and appealed a th ff e ec l t o i v o e n r s s in ar o e rd se e p r a t r o at m el a y intainth cient house of Arlingford. They agree to wait for two years, which Rockingham is to spend at sea. We will not detail his adventures in the Mediterranean, which constitute one of the most interesting portions of the book, but hasten to the conclusion. his letters to Sophia are intercepted —reports reach England of his misconduct, of his arrest, and of his being about to he tried by court-martial; and Sophia at length, wearied out by the importunities of her relations, consents to become the wife of Elmswater. Rock ingham, wearied of life, seeks danger where ever it is to be found, and is killed at the battle of Trafalgar, and Sophia lives a life of misery. We have merely in this outline given so much of the tale as is necessary to point out the moral which the author seeks to inculcate, but the novel is replete with portraits, each of which is so individualised that we at once become acquainted with the individual, with all his idosyncracies. They are s p u o c r h tra a i r t e s ind the po i r y t i r d a u i a t s l s , notof th e mere b r a s y k e e , t ch es magnanimous, o f classes; Imatou, Airs. Went high-sogled cbgries worth, the schoolmaster's wife, a woman, with all her faults, and they are neither few nor light, to be admired and loved ; of the disgusting and brutal perm-nu tyrant, Captain M‘Ross, of the glorious sailor Richards, a perfect specimen of the "honest Jack tar," whose virtues have been celebrated by Dibdin in immortal verse ; and of that purest incarnation of the self-sacrificing love of woman, Bianca Salvi. We cannot conclude without drawing the author's attention to an inad vertence which he will no doubt correct in the sub sequent editions. He makes his characters frequently speak of giving away sovereigns and half-sovereigns ; the battle of Trafalgar, in which Rockingham was killed, was fought in 1805. The sovereign was not a current coin of the realm at that time. The first coinage of sovereigns for the last two centuries took place in 1816. Non ego paucis offender maculis, but from a work which so nearly approaches perfection, we would wish that even the smallest spots should disappear. THE HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH AND THE GREAT 110GGARTY DIA MOND. By W. M. Thackeray. This is a reprint of a tale which originally ap peared in Fraser's Magazine, in 1841, the moral of hich is to warn persons against joining Great Did dlesex Companies of any description, which promise enormous divide n d s , an d to rem i n d them " that the great ehrewd capitalists of this country would not be content with four per cent. for their money, if they could securely get more; above all, never to embark in any speculation, of which the conduct is not perfectly clear to them, and of which the agents are not perfectly open and loyal." We remember reading the tale in _Fraser, and being much delighted with it, although the author says in his preface— " The tale, which was always a favourite with its writer, was not particularly well received at the time of its first appearance ; or noticed, except by one or two persons, one of them the late John Sterling, who wrote me a letter concerning it, which gave me at that time a great comfort and pleasure. Other literary aspirants may be consoled for their own failures by hearing that this story was refused by one magazine before it found a place in Fraser; nor was it until the success of Vanity Fair,' (which work was refused by a magazine too), that I found, or perhaps sought, publishers bold enough to venture upon producing the Hoggarty Diamond' in its present connected shape." The rejection of "Vanity Fair " is another instance of the incompetency of booksellers to judge of the merits of literary productions, and will henceforth rank with the rejection of " Paradise Lost," " Robin son Crusoe," and " Thompson's Seasons." The present edition of the " Great Hoggarty Diamond " is enriched with several quaint illustrations by the author, and is beautifully printed and admirably got up. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS, 1847-1848 ; being Facts and Figures Illustrative qf the Events of that Important Period, considered in Relation to the Three Epochs of the Railway Mania, the Food and Money Panic, and the French Revolution. To which is added an Appendix, containing an Alpha belical List of the English and Foreign Mercantile Failures, with the Balance Sheets and Statements of the most important houses. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. By D. Morier Evans. 'We are not surprised at finding that a second edition of this most valuable work should have been called for within less than six months of its original publication. It is a work which all parties who are interested in commercial or financial affairs ought to possess as a book of reference, for nowhere will they find one on this subject of such general utility and completeness. The table of dividends at the end of the volume exhibits a fearful picture of the effects of the late crisis, and cannot but be regarded as most in teresting, however painful the contents may be for contemplation. The work is dedicated to Charles Barker, Esq., a well-deserved tribute of respect to the high standing of that gentleman in the commer cial world. RELIEF OF SIR JAMES ROSS'S EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. Last week we briefly noticed the arrival of the North Star store-ship, Master Commander Saunders, in tow of the Stromboli steam-sloop, at Stromness, on her way to relieve Sir James Ross's ships Investigator and Enter prise, with stores and provisions of all kinds, se as to enable both ships to pursue their philanthropic search, for Sir John Franklin and his brave, gallant, and de voted companions in the Arctic regions. It appears that the North Star and Stromboli arrived off Aberdeen at 3 30 on Sunday morning, the 20th instant, but the wind blowing strong from the E.S.E., with a heavy sea on the bar, and, moreover, being neap tides, it was thought ad visable not to put into that port, but to proceed to Stromness Harbour, in the Orkneys, where both ships anchored at eleven o'clock the same night. So far everything had gone on well, and was likely to continue so. The Stromboli had performed her towing work wt 11, but the North Star steered rather wild in consequence of being so deeply laden. With a fair wind and fresh breeze, the engines'At full speed, and making 16 re...hitt..., the Strombol4 towed her consort nine knots; working expansivrly, on the second step making 15 revolution., the breuzs fresh aod fair, with a mo derate sea, the rate of towing was eight knots; with fair wind and moderate weather, working expansively on the third step 14. i revolutions, the rate was seven knots; with engines at full speed, making 13 revolu tions, towing head to wind, with moderate breeze and sea, from five and a half to six knots; and going at one third speed, and making from 10i to 11 revolutions, towing dead against a strong breeze with a heavy pitch ing sea, the Stromboli towed the North Star from three and a halt to four k nots an hour. By a fortunate cha nce , a l eaky cosier had put into Stromness, and from h er t h e Stromboli was ena b led to Capeplenl,sahreed w eFarewell water, on the and a ft ( r intendedno o n o fto the fill up with about 130 t ons o f the best steaming coals at e e for a comparately low rat e p er ton. Both ships had also r leave 2 2 dStromness instant. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. The directors of this company have concluded an ar rangement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the terms on which 500 ; 0001, are to be advanced for the construction of the line from Mullingar to Galway. That sum is to be advanced by way of loan, and tits company are to p rocee d w i th the line as speedily as possible. The rate of interest on the loan is to be 3} per cent. per annum. At the expiration of ten years the principal to be repayable by intalments of per cent. per annum, independently of the interest, ai per cent. per annum, which it is calculated will liquidate the debt in about thirty-five years. Should the net profits of the railway from Athlore to Galway not prove sufficient to pay the interest of the loan, the deficiency is to be made good by the county of Galway, and by two baronies of Roscommon. These terms are considered to be very favourable to the railway company. A meeting of pro prietors will shortly be held to confirm the arrangement. FRENCH RAILWAYS. It appears from a return of French railways that the estimated cost of construction of 18 lines amounted to 927,410,000 P. ( 37 , 0 96,400/.), of which 13 were esti mated to cost 624 ,110,000 f. (24,964,4001.), and it has since been ascertained that they will cost 849,422,000 f. (33,976,8800, being on the average 36 per cent. above the estimates. Some of 'the lines cost between 60 and 75 per cent. above the estimates, whilst others cost no more than 24 to 16 per cent. a b ove the ssm specified. Two of the lines wer e comp l eted w i t hi n t h e estimates —namely, the Paris and Rouen, and the Boulogne and Amiens. brought to HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—We h ave accounts from a ll quar t ers of our a officegreat yesterday, accessionof vermin.comple completely specim e n with y. HOLLINGDOURNE, BEARSTED, OTHAM, &c.—The Hops have come out evenly and well, growing very fast and looking remarkably kindly ; a little fly has been seen. YALDING, WA PERINGDURY, AND ADJOINING PARISHES. —ln this district there is a general increase of fly. In other respect the gardens look well. STAPLEHUEST, MARDEN, &c.—We have a great deal of fly here, which is rapidly increasing.—maidstou Journal. STATE OF THE CROPS IN MID ICE.NT. Hors.—The hop bine is growing fast, and looking well, but there is a gradual increase of fly, CoßN.—The wheat plant is looking bell ; and the same remark, we are happy to say, applies to barley, oats, and beans. Peas have suffered much from the effects of the slug, the ravages of which have exceeded anything almost ever before known, leaving the plant very thin on the ground. FRUlTS.—Cherries are very much blighted, but there will be some black hearts and Kentish reds. The goose berries are entirely destroyed. Currants and apples promise a good crop. There is every appearance of an abundant crop of grass. Clover and seeds generally look well.—Maid stone Journal. CONSECRATION OF THE NEW BISHOPS OF VICTORIA AND PRINCE RUPERT'S LAND.—CANTERBURY, TUES DAY EVENING.—His Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury having appointed this day for the c onsecrat i on of the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Rupert's La n d, a large number of pr e lates and other dignitaries of the Church assembled in the cathedral, shortly before ten o'clock. The Archbishop of Canterbury occupied tho throne. Full choral service was performed, and at its close the Right Rev. George Smith, D.D., c f S t. Mary h ill, Oxford, Bishop elect of Victoria (Hong Kong), and the Right Rev. David Anderson, D.D., o f E xeter Colleg e , O x f or d , Bi s h op e l ect of Prince Rupert's Land, were then i n t ro d uce d to t h e Archbishop, and the con secration service, as set out in the Book of C ommon Prayer was performed. D r. Smith . and Dr. And erson Purpo se start i ng for the i r distant dtrceses in the course f a few weeks. Both the Right Rev. Prelates will be accompanied by clergymen, schoolmasters, and catechists. THE SCOTTISH BENCH. --Lord Medwyn, we are informed, is about to retire from that bench which he has so long adorned. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Mait land, will, it is supposed, be called on to supply the va cancy in the civil court, while we observe from the Lon don Gazette that Lord Ivory has been promoted to the Justiciary, an appointment which we have no doubt will be hailed with great satisfaction by the bar and the public.—North Biitish Mail MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN TILE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1549. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*233 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 47 Tubercular Dis eases ... 135 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 122 Diseases of the heart and Blood-vessels 20 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration .. 139 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... . —• Diseases of the Kidne3s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, R.a. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. M alformations... .• • ..• Premature Birth ... •• Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• •• Old Age Sudden ••• ••• •• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Uauses not specified ... DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 27 ... 27 Population Enumerated, 1841 WO ,t Districts... 300,711 worth Districts.. 375,971 Central Distr;ots 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts.. 501,190 '-- - age weekly Deaths De :Is, 1844-8. in the ive Springs. Week. 145 ... 151 185 ... 195 168 • • • 152 207 ... 172 258 ... 227 Tots .... . 1,948,369 Male; . Females ... 897 ... 4.56 ... 441 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... 685 ... 626 Total ... —1,311 *ln this number are included 5 cases of death by Cholera, 34 by Scarlatina, and 43 by Typhus Fever. POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Windermere, in West moreland, having been constituted a post town, the Post office there will be opened for the issue and payment of money orders o❑ and after the Ist of June next. Mount Bellew, county Galway, Ireland, is now called Mount Bellew Bridge. We are enabled to state that a marriage of more than common interest even in a political point of view has been agreed upon between a fair countrywoman of our own and ono of the Royal personages who have had occasion to seek refuge in Great Britain. The Count de Montemolin has offered his hand to Miss de Horsey, the accomplhhed daaghter of Spencer de Horsey, Esq., and the marriage will shortly be solemnized in this country. It is understood that a negotiation has been opened by the Prince with the Government of the Queen of Spain, which has consented to make an adequate provision for his Royal Highness and his bride, in consideration of the renunciation of the claims to the throne of tho male line, of which the Count de Montemolin is the represen tative.—Times. TIIE Hop PLANTATIONS.—We have received ac counts from various parts of the hop district, all con curring in the fact that within the last few days the number of fly has been steadily increasing, until it has, at length, assumed the character of an alarming attack on the plant.—Maid.tone Gazette. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY.—It appears from a return to the House of Lords respecting the allotment of 5,800 shares of the above company among members of either House of Par liament, that 372 shares were allotted to three mem bers of the House of Lords, of which 202 shares were taken up, and the deposits paid upon them; and of 5,489 shares allotted to 47 Members of the House of Commons, 4,467 were taken up, and the deposits paid thereon, leaving 1,022 not taken up. The shares were first issued on the Ist of July, 1845, and appeared in the official list of the Stock Exchange on the 23d of July; on the 24th of July they were marked as done at 4 premium, and on the 25th of July at premium. DINNER TO MR. AUSTEN, OF WALTHAM ABBEY On Thursday last a dinner was given to this gentlemen, at the Hotel, Waltham, on the occasion of his retire ment from the charge of the Government powder-mills, which important duty he had filled for many years. John Griffiths, Esq., J. Colville, Esq., and other magis trates and gentlemen presented to Mr. Austen at the same time a very costly silver snuff-box, as a testimony of their high esteem for his character, and their sense of the very efficient manner in which his important duties have been performed, by which life and property in the neighbourhood have been preserved from the disastrous effects of the explosions so frequent in former days. Two splendid specimens, male and female, of the blue peregrine falcon, or hunting hawk, were killed a few days ago by Mr. Thomas Dickinson, of Eslington, and are now in possession of Mr. Snowden, Alnwick, for preservation.—Newcastle Journal. WILFUL DAMAGE TO THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —The first instance of malicious injury being done to the electric telegraph has just occurred on the London and North Western Railway, between Clifton-bridge and RaAy, by the twisting of the wires, and by which the communication was broke❑ off between London and --- Rugby down, and Liverpool, Manchester, and Birming ham up. A reward has been oiler( d for the discovery of the perpetrators of the mischief; and it may be perhaps usefully mentioned, that by law the act is a misde meanour, and renders the party on conviction liable to transportation. PRODUCTIVE Cow.—C. Lucy, Esq., of Stratford upon-Avon, has a cow which has ptoducrd forsome time a remarkably large quantity of butter. During the last fertvight the enormous quantity of 4041ba., or upwards of 201 b. prr week. has been churned from her cream al me. The pasture in which the cow is contains most luxuriant herbage, which in a degree assists, but still the breed is doubtless the cause of such an abundant yield. The animal is seven years old—this season being the fourth time she has borne a calf. Her breed is between a short-horned Durham and an Alderney, her sire being a short-horn. Attention was first attracted to this ex traordinary production by the fellow cow becoming dry, and it was then found that the animal in question was able to compensate for the deficiency.—Birminghani Gazette. " THE EXPOSTULATION OF THE NEGLECTED."-- Under this title the very striking sermon preached by the Rev. J. F. Denham, Rector of St. Mary-le-Strand, on behalf of the Lamb and Flag Ragged Schools, has just been issued from the press. The preacher com• plains in earnest and eloquent language " of the mistake made by a church or body of people which should direct its effirts to the moral and spiritual welfare of distant nations, and be grossly inattentive to that of its own members." Such is the application he makes of his text ; and ho says, "I am certain that no individual present will find reason to complain of it as unjust or uncharitable, when I mention that the income of the Church Missionary Society from this country alone was last year more than 90,000/. for missions to the heathens, and that the Jubilee Fund up to this time amounts to more than 53,0001., while the aggregate in , come of all the Ragged Schools for the conversion of our native baptised heathens at home, living in ignorance, vice, and impiety, has not been sufficient to keep any one of them out of a state of comparative bankruptcy ; that the annual income of one of them is only 151.; that at a public meeting in aid of another, which was in debt to the amount of 301., the enormous sum of 2/. 10s. was collected, and that the subscriptions to the Ragged Schools for which I plead this day, and which are situated in one of the most degraded localities of the metropolis, have not yet exceeded 901., after the most laborious exertions to obtain them ; and that in this Christian metropolis there are but about seventy of these Ragged Schools, all of them depending on chance for their daily bread amid a population of thirty thou sands of children, who, for the want of them, are living not only without the knowledge of God in the world, but in a condition of the most absolute vice and misery." THE FIRE IN BLENHEIM•STREET,-..The firemen having eventually succeeded in extinguishing the fire which broke out on Monday night upon the premises belonging to Mr. George Freeman (late Alderson and Co.) in Blenheim-street, Oxford-street, a strange dis covery was made. On the men:entering, by means of a small window, a kind of lumber room parallel with the first floor leads, their attention was directed to what appeared to be the remains of two or three persons who had been burned to death. Upon making a closer inspection it was ascertained that the substances found were the remains of two, if not three human beings, which bad not been divested of the flesh, and which was so hard and dry, from long exposure to the air, as not to be easily removed. The head of each party was off, and there is every reason for supposing that the bodies had been used by the celebrated Dr. Brookes, who formerly A b a i d th p e o u s g s h e s e s i v o e n ry of inquirythe premises has been e efonr madeanatomicalepurposes. of learning how the disaster occurred, nothing satisfac gtorreyascyouraldgsb.e g H le a a d n i e t d; no t t he be p e r n ev f a o i r lin th g e op e i x n e io r n ti , o h n o o w f ev t e hre firemen, ,ittahreorese is s rom ne thdeeusbptonthtaanteothues .igrneimtiiosneabooffsommre: Marlborough street, orough- Colburn, the well-known bookseller in a p s to s e t f r r Ted thate : t y , E an would d gentleman si since WHITSUNTIDEcI also obaad adjoined Saturday n b e e d e n those EXCURSIONhhd o e e destroyed, holidayr burnedoe d , excursion wa rehouse trains in and out of London, and throughout the T TRAlNS.—Yes terday country, down. on an extraordinary scale. The influx at the Euston station of the London and North-Western, brought up from the ma nu f actur i ng di str i cts by several spec i a l trains, rendered additional arrang emen t s n ecessary; annual excur s i on t ra i ns com i ng in from Liverpool, Birmingham, and other places, allowing passengers 10 and 16 days in London, at 255. and 20s. the trip. In the much talked of Paris excursion-train there were only t2Ol more eentghearu 5 passengers; aiusstuhffiecnieent insufficient to pay for the engine,ccipt would not amount they were taken by the ordinary trains. Among other excursion curiosities and novelties was a train from Dublin to London and back, taking passengers at two guineas each ; another train from Bi rmin g ham to Bull, Vie surplus profits to be devoted to the Birmingham Hospital; " school treks" on the Lancashire and York shire, conveying Sunday-school children, with their tutors, at sixpence a head, Irons the mills and manufac tories to the outskirts, and upwards of three thousand children, in 100 carriages went in one day. A l arge number of persons availed themselves of single fares for over the Menai Straits. Yesterday the trains on the thethe dstouupbelne=netyuabtrhi3g2iheisitoewr an e d ree i t l i o u l g ybead to see Greenwich Railway ran every 5 minutes each way until 12 o'clock, and carried several thousand persons. molrtniinsgreinpoi,rtaerclis t c h t a c t h to e r r d a, Wallacourt died yesterday CA WAX'S. . 1 1 . Dividend Names of , <,, !Dividend' .. Names of a.. o3rnpai lies . I l esj per Trice. Companies. ti per Price A (Annum. Annum. , at X .£ i Ashtn & Oldh 1 971 , 71. - Macclesfield . 100. i 21. 10s. - B.Arnsicy •• • • 'l6Ol 121. 180 Ncath .. •• • • 100 i 181. , 310 I,:rittik&Abrg 150' 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 1001 201. 185 tirmingham 35 41. 80 Peak Forest. 7g 31. 18s. - Coventry.... 100' 251. 210 Regent's •• • • 33 ,D. ss. 18% Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.. • • 85 1 41. 54 Ells , nre&Chsll33' 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150' 71. I Os. 130 Erewash •• • 1100, 327. - Do.Lkld St 12 161 . p. c. .IrandJunctn l loo 51. 82% Stffral &Wore 1 40 1 28/. 310 Grand Surrey 100' 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 151 . Grand Onion 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridgc.. 145 201. 285 Grantham • •1150 - - Severn and l Kennt & Avis ; 39, 7s. 6d. 51 Wye Rail. j 26 2 . Os. - Leeds& Livrp,loo 30/. 315 Warwick& Leicester .... ,140 51. 63% Birming. j 100 41. 50 Leiestr &Nth! 83 41. 45 m Warwick& ) 100 31. 41 Lghborogh 142 701. 650 Napton.. Moninouthsh 100 81. - Worcetr 8,,} - r 8 21. 41 Mntgemrysla 100 - I - Birming. Meltn3l wbryi 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10 LXST OF SCOTTXSII COMPANIES' P7iLICZB Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of i Paid. Price, Annum. Share. - - - - X 5. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. por cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow tank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% Clydesdale Bank •• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12% 1 Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 155% Eastern Bank .••• .• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 7s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5% Exehange Bnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 30 Isle of Tian. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 North of Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3/.175. North British Bank • • - - 2% Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 120 union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 81% Western Bank.... •• • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 721 Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 20 8 24 B. Accord. Lifeaud Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 British Guarantee Ins. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 93 6d Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 20 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 7s Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 lB% East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 95.0d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. p er cen t. 50 0 0 217 6 I - Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Ensur. Co. of Scetlnd•• 31. per ce n t. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ' - Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 6s Mercantile Life - 10 0 0 010 0 3s. 6d. National Fire and Life Al. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ,20s. 6d North British Insur s%l.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 22t North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ,178.6 d Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 0110 i - Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 1 0 0 015 0 - Scottish Union Insrnco. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 it. is Standard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 5 0 94( United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 1145.6 d IMISCELL.ILATEOUS. ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. ~ •••..lID ............ L. a. d. Z. 5. Q. Australian Agricultnrl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 17 % Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. O. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -... Canada ... • • .... •• .. Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 31 Uppr Canada Bonds 5/. per cent. - - 70 City Navigation .... - - - 90 1 4 Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 51. percent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Equitable Reversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 22 London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 - Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 3 Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 68 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 92 Royal Mail Steam- - 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 50% South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 VanDieman'a Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 13i MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, May 29. SUGAR.—To-day the Colonial Sugar marketbe resumed close. on account of the holidays, but business will resumed to-morrow with large public sales. REFINED.—To-day there was much firm ness wasinth the Refined Sugar market, and some di ffi culty_ experi enced in obtaining brown grocery Lumpsunde sug under 52s is d 6 per cwt. The demand for Bonded Crus hed still dull. MitralTlUS.—By private treaty large parcels have been sold, an d i n some cases the rates paid exhibit an advance on those current on this day week of 6d per cwt. There is also a less amount on offer, and on the part of holders there is much firmness. The supply is still scanty of raw Sugar, especially of low sorts. At public sale 3,890 bags sold with readiness—good to fine yellow, 393 6d to 41s 6d; low to mid, 38s to 395; fine broan, 37s to 38s; mid to good, 35s to 365; low to fine grey, 378 to 40s; and grainy, 40s 6d to 415 6d rer cwt. EAST INDIA.—On the part of holders of Bengal there is still much firmness, end none has again been offered at auction. A good business has been transacted by pri vate treaty at prices showirg an advance on previous quotations. Benares, low to middling white has changed hands at 39s 6d to 41s, good to fine 41s 6d to 435, strong 45s to 493, yellow 393 to 445, brown 338 to 38s, soft yellow 36s to 38s, and Khaur 32s to 34s for low to fine. There has been no public sale of Madras; but privately several parcels have been sold at stiffer rates. Low soft brown cannot be procured under 32s per cwt, and even higher rates are anticipated to be asked. Penang from 31s to 378 per cwt, according to quality. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and on the part of holders there is firmness: for mer rates are well kept up, and a fair business was con cluded by private treaty. Since Friday last . we observe there have been five cargoes of Fineigu Ougu &Toted of At PreTiQUI ifoterl• PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official Lit. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FATDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 29. JOIN - T-STOCX Dividend Amount Name of Company, par of Paid. Prise Annum. Share. e. d. X s. d. Australasia .......... 40 0 0 40 0 0 Brash /North American 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ceylon •••• •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 CJinmercial of London 64 per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 U ~loiiinl.. . Gloucestershire •••• •• 151 per cent. lonian ........ •• •• •• fit. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 Ditto 13 0 0 Lo nion J otnt-Stock 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 P:ovincial et Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, New......... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 tf4tional of Ireland .. 51. per cent. SO 0 0 22 10 0 Nat. PrJrncial 01 Eng. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 Ditto, New. •• •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 South Australia ...• .. 51 per cent. 22 10 0 Union of Australia—. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto ........ •• 61, per cent. 2 10 0 tTni,in of London 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10% Union of Madrid INSURANCE COMPANIES. Namo of Company. Dividend per Amount Aniium. Share. Alslon .............. Alliance /lilt. and For. 31. 10s. 6/. per cent. 41. per cent. 130.6 d. pr sh. 713. per share 5 pr et. 34 ba. 31. 14s. Gs. 51. per cent. 5% per cent.] Ditto Jlarine.7. A:121.i . . ftritisli Commercial .. Clcricldd ed.& Gen. Life t".l minty .. • . Crown • • • • • • • • • • •• • • Etgle .. • • .. Eag.B.: Scot. Law •• • • elaropean Life ••• • • • Family Endowmr. t Soc. Freemasons' . • • • • • • • • G 1 )I,e Glardian .• • • ••• • • ir. & bs. El. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. 121, per cent. 12s. 11. eh. & bs. Imperial Fire ........ Imperial Life . ..... Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire LAW Life...... .• . Legal and General Life London Fire ........ 11. 16A. London Ship Marine.. Med. Inylid & Gen. Life National Lean Fund National Life.... Pilladium Life.. ..... Pelican .. •• Pticenix .. Pt otector Life.... 4341. per ct. 51. per cent. hi. per cent. 51. per cent. p. sh. &bs. 51. per cent. 11. ss. & bs. 55. 5/. per cent. 61. 10s. Provident Life• • .• Hock Life • • ifoyal Exchange Sun Fire • . Ditto Life ..... Universal Life Victoria Life 11. 6s. 10% pr cnt. 51. per cnt. - - -.-- -es lifoLesses.-A greater desire bas been evinced to , operate iu West India, and the rates paid are rather. above those previously. Fine Antigua has been sold at. 22s to 22s 6d, and other sorts 19e to 21s per cwt. Oa the part of holders there is much firmness, and de liveries are still exceeding arrivals. Bengal Treacle is in greater demand, and there are few sellers under 16s per cwt. For Honey prices continue on the advance. COFFEE. -To day the [wetness concluded by private treaty in Coffee by shippers and home dealers was of little moment, and prices have a downwerd tendency. The value of good ord Native Ceylon is 32s to 32s 6d. COCOA.-Former rates are well supported, and the home demand has been good; for low to fine red Trini dad the rates paid have been from 40s to 425. Full rates are insisted upon for foreign, and the supply is small, whilst the rates paid rule from 27s to 295, but there are few buyers. TEA.-There is no disposition evinced to accept lower rates for black, still the town and country demand has been limited, especially for the better sorts, and there is a large quantity on offer. The value of common and good ord Cungou is lid to 80, better sort 9d to Is 3d, strong and Peke° flavour is 3d to Is 9d. For Green the market has a dull aspect, and as the supply is large there are sellers upon rather lower terms: Hyson, ord and good ord can be' purchased at 10d to Is Id, but mid and mid Is 2d to Is 6d, good to - fine is 8d to 2s Bd, and choice 2s 8d to 3s; Imperial Canton lid to is 3d, Hyson sort is 4d to 3s, Gunpowder Canton 1. 3d to is 7d, Ewen sot t Is 8d to 3s 6d, choice e. 35 8,1 to 4s, Twankay ord 5d to 6d, and better kind 7d to Is per lb. In scented Teas only small sales have - teen made, and the tendency of prices is to recede; there are also several parcels on offer. ,es SPICES -By i rivate treaty the better sorts of Black • Pepper have been much sought after, and former rates are eillingly paid for parcels ; but inferior met with i'' little attention. Prices for Sumatra vary from 21d to i 24d, and Malabar lid to 3id per lb. There has been c , no public sale this week. White has b een . i n '''' fair demand at from 5d to 9d, but Pod Pep )l4 per is still (lull of sale at 30s to 60s per cwt. Full rates are asked for Pimento, but the supply is greater, ; and there is only a limited demand. Of the parcels 3 offered at auction amounting to 1,300 hags not above ) half sold at aid to 38el for mid to good quality. Jae 8 % maica Ginger has been dealt in with more freedom, 2% and the supply at market continues moderate. RI At public auction 165 pkgs were all disposed I% of at 41 to 10/ is for' middling to fine bold. 15 5 There is more dem an d f or ot h er sorts. East Ind i a ase shipping sort 23s to 263, home trade sort 40s to 80s, and 2% African 29s to 32s per cwt. Holders of Cloves are firm, - and sales to a fair extent have been made-Bencoolen _ es. at Is 4d to is 93, Amboyna lld to Is 2d, Bourbon and African lid to Bd. Mace met with a 1 brisker sale at 2s to 2s 6d, and first sort 2s 8d to 2s 10d. There is more busines doing in Nutmegs; 1, low and mid brown are 2s 4d to 2s 9d, and better sort 2s lad to 3s 9d, but the demand is still dull for limed at Is 6cl to 2s 63. Cinnamon met with little attention, and a desire is shown to sell, first sort of Ceylon at 3s 8d to 3 / 4 4s 4d, second ditto 3s to 3s Bd, and third 2s to 2s 10d. There is not much demand for Cassia Lignea; owing to _ the scanty supply holders are asking the high rates of :e 903 to 100 s per cwt. . SPIRITS.-There is more firmness in the market for - Leeward Island Rum, and the demand is brisker, whilst the rates paid are from is 4d to is 4id proof, ' l6 and a less amount is on offer. East India is held with firmness, and there is more demand; it is difficult to 14 make purchases under is 3d proof. Demerara has not i improved in value, but th e d eman d i s b etter at 2s to i 2s 2d for 30 to 33 per cent. over proof, and stronger - at 2s 3d to 2s sd, indeed some parties will not accept _ these rates. For Jamaica the market is better, and sales to a fair extent have been made at full rates ; the Ice• better sorts have been the most in demand. We quote ..._ 19 to 22 per cent. over proof at from 2s 2d to 2s 4d, 30 to 36 over 2s 6d to 3s 6d, and choice marks 23 , 3s 8d to 4s 2d per gall o n. Th e va l ue o f Havannah is from is 2d to is 21d, and still few buyers are to be met I with. The market for Brandy has still a firm aspect, 2 3 „ sad a large business has b een conc l u d e d at fu ll y f ormer rates. Home dealers are still the chief operators. 'We _ quote Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1845 at - 5s 81 to 5s 10d, 1845 ditto 5s 4d to 5s 6d, 1847 ditto 4s 3d to 4s sd, 1848 ditto at 3s 7d to 3s 9d, _ inferior 2s to 3s 6d, and B or d eaux 2s to 2s 3d per gallon. i ce. Tbe home trade deliveries are still far greater than in . the former pear. Geneva is not much wanted, shipping sort is offered at Is 9d, and fine fur duty at 2:3d to 3s 3d. There is no variation in the value of British made Spirit. RICE.-Opinion is yet unfavourable towards East India, and there are sellers upon rather lower terms, still on the part of exporters or home dealers little desire . has been evinced to operate, and the market is well sup plied. The better sorts are the most difficult of sale. At auction 3,364 bags of Penang were taken i. in at 8s for barley grain, and of 1,686 bags Bengal a part only sold at les to lis for good to fine white. The value of pinky white Madras is 78 6d to Bs, and of cargo 7s to 7s 6d per cwt. Cleaned Rice is still held with firmness, and finds a free sale; town dressed Caro lina at 20a to 25s ; Patna, low to fine 13s to 19s, and American cleaned IS: to 20s per cwt. There is also not a more plentiful supply. FRUIT.-For fine Currants there is much demand, ea and former cases are readily paid, as the supply is s; small. For the lower sorts the market has a quiet aspect, still lower rates are not acceded to. For New the value is from 36s to 40s, and old 355. Raisins M have been dealt in with caution, and there rip , pears to be more desire to sell; Denis at 31s to 325, '4 Valencia 425, Ehme 46s to 4Ss, Sultana 60s to 653, Mus catels 444 to 60s, French Plums 70s to SOs, and Imperial -80 s to 130 s. Almonds are not much wanted; the value of Jordan is from 71 to 101, Valencia 7.54 to Sal, Bar ,ce, bary sweet 445, and bitter 355. There has been little demand for Figs, and Greek can be obtained at 36s _ to 38s. - SALTPETRE.-Tbere is more firmness on the part of ) imootters of Rough, arid none has been submitted to public sale. Former rates are well support, d, and by Se private treaty operations aro upon a wore extended scale. Tho value of low to fine is from 27s to 29s per cat. British refined is 31. s to 31s 6d per cwt. Nitrate of Soda, 1 Is ed to 12s per Cwt. COCIIINEAL.-Holders have more firmness, and more has again been submitted to auction; the demand has ce en better by private treaty for all purposes, and former rates are well kept up. INDIGO.--The market for Dist India has assumed a quiet aspect, still no disposition is shown to accept lower rates. The quarterly sale is fixed for the 10th of July, and already 5,486 chests are declared, it is expected that about 15,000 chests will be offered, about 9,000 chests will consist of new goods. Spanish is not cheaper, but there has been only a limited demand. Teteeow.-The market for Russian has a firm appear ance, still there is little desire evinced by soapmakers or 14 chandlers to make sales in Russian on the spot, and s the stock is yet extensive. The rates obtained for 18' fine P. Y. C. are 38s ed to 39s per cwt fur fine lee quality, but large p arce l s can b e obtained rather x,t cinder these rates. There has been a good business 7s concluded for the last three months of the year at 39e 3d to 39s 6d, and some parties will not sell at these rates. Home melted has been in excellent demand, but as the i supply is plentiful there are sellers at the moderate rates z. of 37s to 38s per cwt frr net cash. In th e va l ue o f ) other sorts of Tallow little variation has taken place, NI although large parcels had been pressed upon the market. 'li At auction 630 cks of Sydney were nearly all sold at 4 from 33s 9d to 37s 6d for low to fine, and 754 pkgs of 6d South American at 33s 6d to 38s 6d per cwr. For public competition 1,700 pkgs of Tallow are declared. Prices still rule much under the past year, and there is 4 not a larger comp e ti t i on . R oug h F at i s quoted at 2s Id % per stone, and is in plentiful supply. Wm.-Southern is in larger supply, and prices have suffered a further depression, but at public sale 129 tuna were nearly all sold; fine quality at 284 and low to good 24/ to 27/ 10s. Cod met with little attention and • can be obtained at 25/ lOs to 261; there is 6d also a fair supply. Seal h as b een d ea l t i n with caution; there is also a desire to sell pale at 29/ to 301, straw and tinged 28/ to 28/10s, yellow and ~ or is brown 25/ to 271105. None ha s b een o ff ere d at auct i on. Gd )74 F Sperm the market h a s a d u ll as p ect , an d pr i ces - keep on the decline, as the supply exceeds the wants of the trade. At auction twelve tuns of Colonial went at 711 10s, and Headmatter at 72/. !e "rhe finest Oil is not worth more than 741, but - prices are not expected to rule much lower. Linseed Oil met with little attention for home trade purposes, and few export orders have been completed; the market is well supplied, and the rates accepted are 25s 6d to 1 25s 9d per cwt, but there is no falling off in the consurnp /„ tion. There ar e se ll ers f or d e li very at 26s to 26s 6d, . 4 still little business has been done. Rape oil has been dealt in with caution, and lower rates are taken; sales of pale have been made at 37s 6d, and brown 36s 6d to 375, whilst the supply is extending. Palm is not muc h in demand, and a desire is shown to sell fine quality as 1 31s 6d to 32s per cwt. There is no decrease in the con : sum ption and the supply is notupon a large scale. There ' 4 is much dulness in the market for Cocoa Nut Oil and quoteto 3 8/ I prices ost onthe 40i i o s p decline; er t utnh;esstuilpiptlhye there also upon a larger scale, and lower rates are expected to prevail. Olive met with a little att en ti on from home dealers or shippers; Gallipoli i s o ff ere d at 41/ to 424 and II e i t t h i e:r d s iffic ort u s l a t t from 1 i s a fair consumption, and a further increase is expected o to ffe t r a e k d e place.at t3Bs to L 4 a l r s d , Oil whilstme GroundtwithlittNleaatttiesndtiallon,oafnsdalies at 27s to 28s. ST. MARTIN-IN-THE -FIELDS PUBLIC BATES.— The total number of bathers for the four months from the w opening of th e es t a bli s h ment, ending May 24, as 51,52. Of these there were 20,172 first-class bathers, 18,472 being men and 1,650 women; and 31,610 second class bathers, 28,957 being men and 2,653 women. The cold baths taken were 429 first class, 422 by men and 7 by women; and 729 second-class, 722 by men and 7 by women. The greatest number of bathers in any one day was on Saturday, May 5, when there were were 1,297. The greatest number on any Sunday (the baths being open fn m 6 till half past 8 A.m.) was cm Sunday, May 6, when there were 585. The smallest number on any one day was on the 19th of April, when there were only 103. The total receipts for the four months have been 7721. Bs. 10d. The bathers last week were 5,597, and the receipts 81/. Ss. DEATH OF WlLLram NICHOLSON, THE GALLO WAY l'or.T.—This eccentric, but atill remarkable man, under many disadvantages, died at Kildarroch, Borgue, on the 16th inst., aged sixty-seven. At the time the Ettrick Shepherd was engaged in the composition of the s' Queen's Wake," the deceased bard appeared in Edin burgh, armed with manuscripts for publication, which the author of " Kilmeny," and other deathless lays, ex hibited his usual good-nature in revising with the greatest scrupulosity. The volume was well received, and about twenty years afterwards ran to a second edi tion, published in Dumfries, to which was prefixed a me. 132 9 i r vi the ;maim—Punt/6o Cooler. Name of Company. Charing-cr055.......- Southwrk, Nw Sub.AT. Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. Waterloo ............ Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. Ditto Nov ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... •• • Av. Name of Company. C )nnercial •• •• •• East and Wert India... East Country London • • • • Ditto 80nd5........ St. Katharine ........ Ditto 80nd5........ Southampton •• ...... Name of Company. East London..•• •• .... Grand Junction ...... Lambeth •• •• •• New ltivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall West Middlesex . . . OAS-MONT Name of Company. British • • •• • • .• •• • • •• Ditto Provincial.... Bristol • • •• • • • • • • • • Brighton • • • • .. • • • • .. City of London .. • • .. ContinentalConsolidat. Equitable. Imperial Independent........• London.• ............ Ditt0.............. Phoenix . •• .... • • • • .. itatcliff ...• • .. • • • • • • United General •••••• We. tmI RS ter Chartered Ditto, New X 5. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 Stpek. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 00 0 0 $ 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 BIZIDGMS Dividend per Annum. 355. per cent.l 11. ss. 4d. 11. 2s. 2d. DOC, Dividend per Arinum. 41. per cent. 61. pr cent. 40s. per sh. 5/. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per ceat. 43/. pr cent. 21. per cent. 'A.TISEIki Dividend per Annum. 21. 10s. 31. 10s. 61._ per cnt. 1 21. 108. 151. per cnt. 61. Oa. pr cnt. AND Co Dividend per Annum. 11. Bs. 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share 15s. pr share 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. 4%1. pr cent. 3/. 12s. Amount of Share. X. s. d. 632 12 $ 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. X s. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 3000 'ORKS, Amount of Share. X 5. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 00 0 0 Amount of Share. Z. s. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 ; 20 0 0 1100 0 0 1 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 897 Paid. .6 8. 4. 50 0 0 71 11 0 0 11 50 0 56 8 1 50 0 , 10 0 0 10 0 0 6, 50 0 50 0 I 2 12 6 11l paid. 1( 40 0 a 0 0 36 10 0 41 50 0 0 '2l 10 0 0 1 , 5 13 1 - 210 0 10 0 0 41 2 0 0 12 10 0 11 12 10 0 11 15 0 0 I 2 0 0 1' 2 10 0 - 50 0 - 2 0 0 211 1 0 01 10 0 0 21 0 10 0 1 - 1 2 4 0 4 3 90 0 - 4 0 0 4; Paid. I Prig .E. is. d. 25 0 0 60 0 0 2' 40 0 0 2, raid. I Pril X s. d. 50 0 0 ?al4. I Prli £ s. d. , ANIZEI. Paid. ! Price, Z. 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