The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-27 00:00:00

' - - olf.) J. Saturday were. :h sold stesch l l',4 The oat Was:: ted previous rsl; become .fi rster g rd tendenc7o;t; t prices a wera rec; 'A o f for! , : 3 beans, and 9,003 si" 1 . 0 U p to oar 06v ca rriage , " of tbis Was 1, th° Altbag u was by d late V l "' 0 0 what a ctive f , "W lay last, to say exte cr oj ° h wa s an ° e o tal d t ( 0 1 ;, an • t h a n on ti° floating car- tor r q ly at ls• P e o dor were quite sr. uslities luiewecire P ita 0 f 1 realised ye ;me rata. I fo. : or exP °rb Are f t' rat her der- • to ;14 , u tter •• • A kahlre F" , $ ll4 al • and e° 1 40 0 ack. o• " 1 64 0 White • 0 5 40 Feed." , 411 ic.•• 43. fi 3 • .• •••• ": 354 / 4 ...• " Sgs • 394 ~,,n 4• sde."9" 4" Pt" A lls ‘if re tolerab ,e Sad. Ta t tb 9,l Isso ; 0 7 in .1- fi :a. Calve s, / • • 10° " / -- ''' ' ~ ...„, . 0 / • S 1 ." ▪ 146 ▪ 219 ' •••• 1." I ..• 15 '"/! ••• 61 6 ":/ ieas un f r.f l c a rve- L. 4 d '' l s 7 13 " • 71" . °2 h foreiSu 0 ing ' 1.32 lea !r cono of priceg'l st 5g 4a P - too' Nort 001 11 ,( a other l ilo lle Sc ° frog' the for : i i r 0 : 1 : ; dition Iv r, at ft°' 0. 4 r 10 1 . 4 3 6 4 19 a. 8 .3 0 ..4 t f r ° ll 100 Vpa; o , the! ff oT: i e 011.10- ?co .4c • `;1141:4" A tO nte" of SO fl SO ,y, o , CaP cll2' s its :erY ,09 _OO , 70 1 clo. 2 1s 30 _s, Ya; i d 1° vs eif -e er * to , nlo l ' t-T te• o a firs 4 4 ° 428 94% 2 0 ' 6 0 48' 1 4 . 7 2 ' 7 0 6 5 ' igi, 7 01 ...... •• ' i a 2l 09 Ift, bl II o ° • 4- ° 6 I° 4l sty 401 it T IC Fend ( ' vio t. h;;99 2 ; ~6$ 04 ,4 ;to " 4 ° 3,1' 11 4 ;9 2 3,4 0 ; ,3 11 ,9 1 5 2 41 57 r eCei geti d oit" to o, ) ding le ft b i d n ~e re k. bif bu iv. n bea d ti a murder' .7„. V. 4.. =a. AND CO MMER CIA L INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday closed steadily, and with a good demand. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales (500 of which were taken for export), comprising 230 Pernam and Maranhara at 63d. to 61-d., 100 Egyptian at 6 3d. to 7d 1,000 Surat at 4d. to 4d., and 50 Sea Isl ands at lid. to is. 2d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market there was little change, the market closing d nll - is 2s. to 3s. dearer in Mark-lane to-day tha n on Monday last. In accounts from Hamburg it is stated that the mortars used at the bombardment of Sweaborg, and not long sent out from England, had not stood /7811 in many instances, becoming quite unservice able and splitting after some hours' firing. The artillerymen were occasionally so enraged as to w ish to throw the mortars overboard. The Allied ft ,,, e cts were s till ac ti ng r i gorous ly i n the Gulf of Bo thnia. There are advices from Sydney by the Ocean Queen to as late a date as June 3, not to June 23, Its Stated by the Times, of which the merchants com plain as too f reque ntly misleading its readers Ii w rong dates, the error, however, being always On the side that makes that journal appear to pos sess Much later intelligence than it really has. The nnPort markets were still improving, although the Pu r rehase s were mo d erate. Th e a d v i ces o f M arc h fr om Engla n d, i n ti ma ti ng that the ship men t s f Mtn this side were much more limited, had a good effe ct but it is only a cessation of heavy shipments t i )tr nany months, according to a local price curr e nt, 'at can bring about a satisfactory state of affairs, h an d prev en t th e accumu l at i on o f ru i nous ware ousing and other charges. The bank s h av i ng Nuced their rate of exchange to 4 premium, dis -stisfaction had occurred among the mercantile community, as they had generally made up their ac count sales at the previous rate of 3 per cer t. The est ablishm en t o f a m i n t, it was h ope d , would in crease the facilities of remittance, arid diminish the b °BB upon. the shipment of bullion merely to g e t i h ae k coin. With respect to the expected inc rease " the tariff, an ad valorem duty was recommended (i ll So me quarters. The amount of gold brought v n by the l as t escor t t o Syd ne y was 4 , 203 ounces. (Not withstanding r e cent arriv a l s o f i mm i gran t s, farm labourers and shepherds found ready employ e") and w ere wan t e d u p th e country . T he ce 2• ll Queen b r i ngs 90,000/. i n go ld. re-rhe intelligence received to-day from New York at l3(3 rta continued buoyancy and activity in the be 7a market, owing to the abundance and cheap -1-o,lBof money. The arrivals of specie from Cali be'cla were large, and the shipments were likely to Of f diminish e d , ow i ng to t h e d ec li ne i n the rates At:reign exchange. During the week endi ng th a est 10 the value of the imports exceeded i 4l of the exports by 2,056,483 dollars. No Itlll3?Ptant movement had occurred in bread titi!'"'• There were a few shipments in small (lan -42: of corn to Liverpool and the British North for le s peat) colonies, but it would be some time be- Th e exportation became active. Sent r ° l gwing railway hills received the Royal ' 333 - Monday, Aug. 14 :—London and'South- U-re at l.; Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburg; Way a ceter a and Brentford ; Stokes Bay Rail- Wor ee r ; Derbyshire, S'affordshire, and (Claph a er Orlire (No. 2) ; Westminster Terminus The 111 .t° Norwood). f ollows ra. away " calls" due in September are as Antw Date due. Call. Amount. I lrid m erP rt ° tterdaM bonds 5...X10 0 0... £20,000 Gre at Indian * Pe . ******** ***** ****** 1 o. 6,500 bir nt , al,l /. paid • 25... (), tXten 21. paid 25... G rea t Red., 5 per )40t., Pref. 101. 10... 2 0 0... 265,000 24 1e abro' & Recker, new gamllAsued at 4 prem 1... i AA te and Meuse 101. Pref., tt oek , e d at 1 dig 15... 2 0 o...unknown • & Darli ng., N ew 25/. ... 1 0 0... 16,000 2 0 0... 200.000 2 0 0... 200,000 3 0 0, .. 54,000 £761,500 Total called in 1855 £11,163,965 It`railway meetings announced are the follow- 41 / 3 1 ) , Company. Date. Place. , 11 A6 !gate, g„ Aug. 29, London Tavern. 1 44' 4? and sf er , . Carnarvon lackbtinrr; Aug. 27, Blackburn. .............. . „lepeaford and 11'd .... A 28 L d iN °l ' i an and D I • un' Aug. on Glasgow. vql - y _ umbarton. Aug. 29, Glasgow. b 4 QII II B. _ , b 44 41 ,_ncl Drogheda Aug. 30, Dublin. and, Enniskillen 3let Mat rlinstead Aug. 28, East Grimstead. Aug. 31, London Tavern. tAlie? 4 Counties l~i, P and net girth, Dundee Ang. 31, Edinburgh. h t it "u Credit Au. 29, London T 41 It, on a , ks,Z" l'res+ on. &c Aug. 2, Preston.avern. r drle, and Monkland Aug. 29, Glasgow. ChN hi ana South-W es t ern S e pt. 5, Glasgow. ti e (l,l l . re and Yorkshire Br adford, and Halifax Aug. 31, Bradford. 1 ; 14 ' Clt .l ieY west. of Ireland Sept. 7, Dublin. fet Extension lq_*r)-V b er., and Hereford Aug. 30, Lon•lon Tavern. erf e i k ad Enniskillen ettl l 1 ,•••• 4 g)tt h ;- evi3 , ll Aug. 29, London Tavern. esuer n Aug. 39, Morecomb. 11 Ytt o'_. tl ffordshi r W e Sept. 11, London Tavern. ilere te ,.. °roes., and W o l. Aug. 28, London Tavern. .. r e a nd 9,uebec Class A Aug. 30. Parliament-street. . 4„ ditt o Arens° Othb__ ditto on Aug. 28, Plymouth t i c ;tith wster n Aug. 30, Bridge House Hotel ~t~ih Yorks Aug. 31, Paddington. Aug. 31, Sheffield. Vaf m " nkinghm & Wokg Aug. 28. Lond , , n Tavern. Ve Of v a nd Essendine Ve r t "oath and Limerick eet ditk ril ata Aug. 29, York. Vst ern bitch wi tzerl an d A n sr. 25, Moves. in ti bled: e n n , & Furness Jun Aug,. 20, 3. Guildhall-builags e Croydon h Nt er ,- I Tiswark branch of the London and West °lsse Bank is to be admitted to the clearing 11.T,_11.e°11the same footing as a separate bank. F unds are extremely dull, and there is it'll9l to stimulate speculation. Consols have e t dri ee l to f, both for money and account. The k,else n 3 per Cents, are 911 to 92. the New 92 1 7 1'4,0 1 3 1 er Bills bring 13s. to 175., and India I .,tsk 481;p.rernium. Bank Stock is nominal. L s ()r eit _ sties are 16 15-16. raC_Securities are inactive, but Turkish scrip tt,',.ola bonds improved, being 2g to 21 premium. are 93 to Spanish Passive Stock 104 , 7 e b e j#, and the N e w D e ferred 19. Peruvian • 81i to 82. Russian 5 per Cents. are kt 4;l t. : . f:oll,l w i no , are the nominal prices of foreign di t !IC AI ,2 - ' - „nada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 7i ; three per Cents., 581 to 59i ; Portuguese crl . s. Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five lg p er 1 100 to 102 ; ditto. Four-and-a -t& iro Q. ents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, ditto Three per Cents., 371 to 38 ; a T he e- tb._?°ates. 41 to 4i • ditto Passive, 4' to 4a pra. s 8. „, ay Share Market presents a quiet ap- N'er. T had.most of the quotations aro a shade N,,Cir eat ".,,nes chiefly dealt in are Great North fore"tliEti .n'estern, and North Western. The A ißiti un dertakings are very quiet, and also the i 11 4 1 1" are kiada la nd are lower. General Screw are 11 411,, rtTNrn THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. f Prom the Official List. % 4 a 1. o t . C o at. lt, lt e e du i:c.snA... done lone a at, e eocl Annuities 9ll 2 i . Der (•• "Ws Annuities 9l i b. ‘'in • 4M. Annuities 1 itt Inti, , 1 44 e' ao y , Narvire sth .Tan.. lfzge . 4 1.16 N 4 %4 earB E • t o tt, o, 4:4 4, xPire.sth April, 1835 1 . 6 15.16 tbiol,' Itnd er . It/ • ke), ?q r Ae ")°°. tf nivs e rltto r E c i ° ll 4 e nt, 6th September 9li i ttoir .... 2i• - • 21. 13 17 1 12 15 t , Nn e , • ............... .... ...... l ier, _ti . 1',4,11/I,llll4jortl/°OtHIF ............ .3 - i ....... . Cent ..n ;.* Q l itt: l t ! ho uds APOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. 841t e Z th e 4 , e . :4 Per Cent..,,_ ..,....., I)k e il iaairbi. 1 82; unt • b,olh ct go n gs, 5 , 5 Por Cent. £St lOl,l 0 , ~,q448 , .?„ Per Cent. .. . 861 '41.1 1 , t .t0 iiLw Deferred eent — b. 4.11 er' , ive "` e d, 3 per Cent. I t •. 0 •• .. b. to f or , g.. v t 14, N ew the per cent b 4 41 1 et a cceent It th P po n ce 4 it 1e ~ 0 4 , 1 4, b i l a ng e . 2 . 4 p e er , Cent ~,, 4 j p r I.nt. 19 Gnil 65 Q, 01 ,,.. . •'" th e above peyabit in Lcndnn. b iC o ^.„4 ol , ll _.. . 4 ............... THRE 6 E 4 O'CLOCK. tic, Aceo... _ ~. 144 •I 9li I 4 ' s r:s )i,kl ' ~°r'~~.:~'': .• • 4'41 it. 414 SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. TATTERS ALL'F,. (THIS EVENING.) ST. LEGER. 2to 1 agst Rifleman (taken anl offered) 7to 2 agst Lord of the Isles (taken) 7to 2 agst Otdston (offered) 10 to 1 agst Grceen ns Esuriens (taken freely) 12 to 1 age Nl,rehionesq (taken) 40 to 1 agst The Herald (taken) BETTING AT , - 1. - A.NCITESTER. ST. LEG ER. sto 2 agst Rifleman (I.,:iken) 4to 1 agst Outston (~ffered) 9 to 2 asst Lord of the Idel (taken) 10 to 1 agst Capucine (taken) R A DCLIFFE RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) STAND PLATE. Romeo Salmon Vanessa Seven ran. TWO-YEAR OLD STAKES. Alfred Kitty Two ran. Won easily. WILTON CUP. Yorkshire Grey Braxey Phoenix Cardsharper Four ran. Gamelad has gone to Derby. DESPATCH FROM THE CRIMEA ( From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.) WAR DEPARTMENT, AUG. 27. Lord Panmure ba.4 this day received a despatch and its Enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad dressed to his Lordship by General Simpson. - Before Sebastopol, Aug. 14. My Lord,—During the last few .days considerable activity has been exhibited in the movements of the enemy, both in the town and on the north side ; and, from the information we have received from the coun try, as well as the examination of deserters, I have rea son to believe that the Russians may attempt to fo , ce ul to raise the siege by a vigorous attack from without. Every precaution i- , tsken oa the part of the Allies, and the ground occupied by the Sardinians above the village of Tchorgouna, and in its front, has been made very strong through the energy and skill of General La Marmara, who is unceasing in his precau tioe, and shows the utmost disposition to co-operate in the most agreeable manner with the Allies. The fire has, , f anything., been rather less during the day, since my last de.patch. At times, however, the enemy open heavily for a short period, causing many casualties ; and amon4st them I regret to have to an nounce that of Brevet-Major Hugh Drummond, Scots Fusilier Guards, who via< killed yc-terday afternoon by a fragment of a shell. His loss is deepy telt by all who knew him, and her Majesty has lost the services of a most promising officer. The firing on our side has been directed in a great measure against the large barracks, dockyard Imilding4, and the town, all of which show visible signs of the ad mirable practice of the Royal Artillery. I further beg to enclose the returns of casualties to the 12th inst. I have to apologise to your Lordship for having omitted to inform you before that I had despatched the steamer Indiana, on the Bth instant, to Corfu, for the purpose of conveying the 82d Regiment from that island to the Crimea. Drafts for the Light Division and 71st Regiment, to the number of 800 men, the remainder of the Carabineers, and one squadron of the Ist Dragon Guards have ar rived. I have, &e., JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c. Enclosure 1. NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM THE' 10TH TO THE 12TH OF AUGUST, 1855, IN CLUSIVE. 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards-2 rank and file wounded. Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards-1 rank and file wounded. let Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards-5 rank and file killed ; 7 rank anti file wounded. let Battalion Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file killed. 2d Battalion Ist Regiment of Foot-5 rank and file wounded. 3d Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 rank and file wounded. 4th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 7th Foot —4 rank and file wounded. 9th Foot-1 rark and file wounded. 14th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 sergeant, 4 rank and file wounded. 17th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 18th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 19th Foot-4 rank and file wounded. 20th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 23d Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 28th Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 30th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 drummer, 3 rank and file wounded. 33d Foot-3 rank and file wounded. 31th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 3Sth Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 rank and file wounded. 39th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 4 rank and file wounded. 41st Foot-7 rank and file wounded. 42d Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 41-th Foot-3 rank and file wounded. 47th Foot-2 rank and filo killed ; 4 rank and file wounded. 55th Foot-1 officer wounded. _ _ 57th Foot 1 s3er g eant, 3 rank and filo wounded. 03 , 1 Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 68th Foot-3 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded. 72.1 Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 77th Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 79th Foot-7 rank and file wounded. 88th Foot-5 rank and file wounded. 95th Fo,,t-1 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file wounded. 97th Foot-8 rank and file wounded. Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade-2 rank and file killed ; 5 rank and file wounded. 2,1 Battalion Rifle Brigade-2 rank and file wounded. Royal Artillery-2 rank and file killed ; 5 rank and file goaded. Royal Marine Artillery-1 rank and file wounded. Total-19 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 109 rank and file, wounded. W. L. PAKENHAM, Adj titan t-General. Enclosure 2. NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED FROM THE 10TH TO THE 12TH, OF AUGUST, 151,5, INCLUSIVE. WOUNDED. AuG. 10. 55th Foot—Captain F. C. Elton, slightly. W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant• General. Enclosure 3. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED FROM THE 10TH TO THE 12TH AUGUST, 1855, IN CLUSIVE. KILLED. AUG. 10. Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards—Privates Evan Griffiths, Richard Davis, Thomas Knowles, John Blink horn, and John 141`Cabe. Ist Battalion Ist Foot—Private Joseph Teendor. 30th Foot—Private Alexander Still. 47th Foot—Privates Andrew Lohan ; John Newman. 68th Foot—Private James Turner. Ist Battalio❑ Rifle Brigade—Private John Burlier. Royal Artillery—Gunner James Harvey. AUG. 11. 3d Foot—Private Peter Farrell. 14th Foot—Private Wm. Kennedy. 3Sth Foot—Private J. Wooding. 39th Foot—Frivate W. Kennedy. 95th Foot—Private Dennis Collins. let Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private John Jeffereys. Royal Artillery—Bombardier Edward Wilson. W. L. PAKENHA.M, Adjutant-General. Enclo4ure 4. NOIIINAL RETURN OF - 140N-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED, FROM THE 10TH TO THE 12TH AUGUST, 1855, INCLU SIVE. WOUNDED. AUG. 10. 3 , 1 Battalion Grenadier Guards—Privates James New bury and William Beeteson, let Battalion Coldstream Guards—Private John Hud son, severely. _ _ - Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards—Corporal John 'Murray, severely; Privates Daniel M'Coure3 can, slightly; Thomas Spencer, severely ; George Hatton, - slightly ; John Otrord, slightly ; Charles Marton, severely ; George Warmer, slightly. 2d Battalion Ist Foot—Privates Patrick M`Laughlin, slightly ; John Sullivan, slightly ; Richard Sinnott, slightly ; John Whynd, slightly. 30th Foot—Drummer James White, slightly; Private Loughran, slightly. 41st Foot—Corporal Henry Putland, slightly ; Privates Benjamin Carter. slightly . Richard Colgan, slightly ; Arthur Dawson, slightly ; Ames Hughes, slightly ; James McGrath, severely. 42d Foot—Private Robert McNair, slightly. 4 tth Foot—Privates James Onions, severely; John McCaughley, slightly ; Thomas MePeake, slightly. 47th Foot— Corporal William Collopy, slightly ; Privates William Christopher, slightly; Edward Wall, slightly; Michael Cotton, slightly, THE SUN, LONDON; MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 27, 1855. ; 61.10C11::lt, tianga ous.!-/ ; William Smith, severclv. 631 Foot—Privato William Rorr, slightly. With Foot—Private John Graham, slightly; John Sales, slightly., 72d Foot—Privates James Reid, severel: ; William _ Brown, severely. 79th Foot—Privates William Gemmell, slightly; Ro bert Stewart, severely; Robert Wallace, severely; Ed 'ward Bewlqv, slightly ; James M`Donald, slightly; James Logan, slightly ; William Douglas, severely. Ist Batt:ilion Rifle, Brigade- -Privates George Martin, slightly ; ItlurTh Halden, slightly. :d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private William Ferguson, slightly. . _ Aug. 11. 2d Battalion Ist Foot—Private Henry Howard, slightly. 3d Foot—Corporal Thomas Kelly, slightly. 7th Foot—Privates William Gaynor, Thos. Goldsmith, da;igerously ; Michael M'Garry, severely; Michael Shields, slightly. 9th ivate J. Greenland, dangerously. 14th Foot —Sergean t John Casey, dangerously ; Privates P. Burke, R. Mc.Gaffen, and P. McMahon, slightly. '231 FOot—Privc Les George Harrington and George Me to n , slightly. 2 4 ;.11 Foot—Private G. Firth, severely. 3 , )th Foot—Privates James Barry and Jeremiah Dwyer, severely. 33d Foot—Lanco-Corporal William Noonan, slightly; Privates John Condrick and Evan Taylor, severely ; Chas. Davis, slightly. 34th Foot — Private John M`Malion, slightly. 38th Foot—Pi ivate M. Nicholson, slightly. 39th Foot—Privates P. Brennan, J. Lynam, and P. Allen, slightly; M. Ryan, dangerously. 77th Foot—Privates Wm. Cropp, slightly ; George Brooks, slightly 88th Foot—Privates Edward Murray, severely ; James Mullins, slightly ; Michael Mulcahy, slightly; James Quinn, slightly; George Smith, slightly. l,flth Foot—Private William Hickliug, dangerously. 97th Foot—Privates James Forward, Daniel Wells, James Trotter—all severely ; John Jago, Thomas Roth well, John Lawell, Thomas Cookesey—all slightly. _ . _ . 1t Battalion Ride Brigade—Privates Charles Cart wri,ht dangerously ; John Green, slightly. Royal AiLilloryLGunners Francis - M033. John Hard wick, hichard Phillips, Samuel Carroll, John Willison— all Tightly. Royal Marine Artillery—Gunner Owen Graham, se verely. AUG. 12. 4th Foot—Private G. Reynolds, severely. 14th Foot—Private T. Conway, severely. 17th Foot—Private John M'Cabe, 18th Foot—Private G. Baker, severely. 9th Foot—Corporal Thomas Robins, severely; Privates Patrick McNamar:A, slightly ; Patrick Burke, slightly ; George Russell, dangerously. 20th Foot—Private George Washington, slightly. 28th Foot—Private M. Duffy, slightly. 41st Foot—Private John Jooes, slightly. 97th Foot —Privn.te Robert Bartley, severely. lot Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private Win. Lawrence, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private Charles Lewis, dangerously. W. L. PAKENFIAM, Adjutant• General. Enclosure 5. A LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL BRICIADE, BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FUR THE WEEK ENDING THE 18TH AUGUST, 1853. - AUGUST 8. WOUN DED. _ _ Wm. Hoskins, eaulker, - Dianaond, slightly ; Daniel Carney, A. 13„ Rodney, mortally. Died on the•lOth inst. HENRY KEPPEL, Captain Commanding Royal Naval Brigade. tt E NI it Es. tTHIS EA Y.) g.A!LW Lys. KAIG~"S`'I. r !er, •kinbg. Nottirg. 80, -ind Eastn. Junct !3L - 4!fast. ~ irming. rb -;tour Vall,.y Lanesi . theshire Junet... Lk, Cheat'. h Birk £s') and Do., £2O ' l 7th & Tyn?. ori gin a £25 (issd. at £4 , Bristol and Exeter..., ( edoni an _ ~. - .. 134 - 13 Carmarthen and Ca , digan Chester di Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, di Paa- Cornwall Tel' Junction )usilineuricliastJunc Dundee Perth& kb • 11 - 13 8 - 10 ,icon Junction Do. N aP...... East 4lian ;astern Counties eastern Union, A 6i - 7 Stock .. ne,,, 3 Stov. 1)o., New A. r et ligneashire qldinburgh&Crlasgovc Edinb. and Peebles_.. Edin.Prth itnurdee orth & Clyde Ju Furness. !)o. Extension (113,13Z0W &S. WeS treat Northern.... Do., A. Stock Do., B. S.ioc..k 'lt. SO. &West. are '1), Stour Val Rail Gua. Stk i rich iouth-'laster , r:R.owlster Ouriisx Do., Thais Do. New Thirds__ Litneasii.andlrorksl , 1)3., kVst. 1170. Liv.erzib7.&Soa London it Blaca vox! ' or d. Bright Pt S.C9s .! ;And. and N. W0.,..•ti )0. Fifths 00.16/.811.,Mt.;11 no. Eighths 1;5() • - 1:40 Lndndrryda Col erai T 1 Lndndrry. & r.vian.eh,,Fllle!'. Az, Li neli , Do. Shares, No. I 74:an. Liu, Un. Midland , o. Bina:mg. kDerIK giclid. Q. West. (Ira, ! 0 . Half Sharee....... . VRweastle & Carlist , Vwpt.Aber,g. & Hrt t vewry k Enniskillo• vewry Warrenpoin And vorfollt ..... • so '4" orthn,Conntios North British North Devon, No. 1 ' flo., No.:? , 0., A Deferred I; Goaraiitce , ! v. Eastern—Berwie't 'o. do. Exteaeion Do„do. (.I.N.E. Pure, Do. IDo. York 'North Lona ryil Do. Now -£lO . & S . Wstrn.,llatn7 -• stead, and City 3n North Stairordshike,, North Westorn & S. Westrn.June Nuneaton, fl.inekic, and Loicester.. Oxford, Woreost4. , r,iv Wolverhampton i'ottsmonth 'Scottish :• , „lopslare Union South Devon South Eaku—n South WaicH Yrksh. EL Itiv. Do SOVOIL Stockton Darn% : - .lty!kton di Hr.rtlepl Taff Vale.. Do. £lO shares..,, Do. Pref., No. I Thames Haven Docl , And Railway •.• '''''"' , Inverstono & Lancs. VGA) tit Nea.th ......... Watered. Kilkenni• Waterford&L:mer West C0rnwa11........ West End of London an 3 Crystal Palace.. 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B. / 7`.:7 " exprisite face," and hears her voice in the meadow, and sees— " . the treasured splendour her hand, Come sliding out of her sacred glove, And the sunlight break from her lips," As he recalls to remembrance— " Whom but Maud should I meet Last night, when the sunset burned On the blossomed gable-ends At the head of the village street, Whom but Maud should I meet ?' ) And she touched my hand with a smile so sweet, She made me divine amends For a courtesy not returned." He is conquered—her slave—her worshipper " Her lion rolled in a silken net"— " Lord of the pulse that is lord of her breast, And dreams of her beauty with tender dread, From. the delicate Arab arch of her feet 7o the grace that bright and light as the crest Of a peacock, sits on her shining head, And she knows it not : 0, if she knew it, To know her beauty might half undo it." It is the most sweet and exquisite picture in the volume—suggestive of limnings tinted with the de licate water dyes of Edward Corbould, in illustra tion. The dreaming lover, although despised by the relatives of Maud, is accepted by Maud her self. He saunters with her under the shadow of twilight through her " high Hall-garden," as though he trod the golden gravel an d p er f ume d lawns of Paradise. He sits over against her in the village church—more her votary almost than God's. lie has a chance meeting with her a mile from the shore on horseback, where the waving of her hand as she flits by him is as a star-spark in the darkness. When he first wins her word of betrothal he never tires of repeating to himself as it were in an under tone of rapture— " There is none like her, none." Sighing to her with an almost childish iteration of tender epithets after their trysting pledge of mu tual fondness— " My bride to be, my evermore delight, My own heart's heart, and ownest own farewell." His passion breaks forth in musical numbers, num bers " most musical, most melancholy," snatches of erotic verse beginning, one of them— " A voice by the cedar tree, &c." Another— " Go not, happy day," &c. Another— " Come into the garieri, Maud, &e." And perhaps the most impassioned— " I have led her home, my love, my only friend." Tenderest of all, however, to our thinking, section xii. : " Birds in the high Hairigarden When Twilight was falling, Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud, They were crying and calling. I kissed her slender hand, She took the kiss sedately ; Maud is not seventeen, But she is tall and stately. Birds in the high Hall-garden Were crying and calling to her, Where is Maud, Maud, Maud, One is come to woo her ? Look, a horse is at the door, And little King Charles is snarling, Go back, my lord, across the moor, You are not her darling." This refers, of course, to the partially favoured suitor, the suitor favoured by the Sultan, Maud's brother : "a lord, a captain, a padded shape, A bought commission, a waxen face, A rabbit mouth that is ever a-gape." It is in this twelfth section of the poem from which we have extracted these exultant ejaculations that the poet sings with an unconscious remem brance of rare old Ben Jonson, who had carolled thus exquisitely three centuries back (we have to thank our weekly illustrated contemporary for the reminiscence) : " Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and hers ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow ; The world may find the spring by following her, .For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk. But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sown them with her odorous foot." It is, we say, with a possibly unconscious recollec tion of these delicious verses of Bon Jonson, and perhaps also with a no less unthinking remembrance of that almost equally delicious fancy of Walter Scott— E'en the slight harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread :" that Alfred Tennyson sings thus at page 42, of his peerless Maud— "l know the way she went Home with her maiden posy, For her feet have touched the meadows, And left the daisies rosy :" as in a kindred strain he afterwards sings at page 69 • " From the meadow your walks have left so sweet, Teat wherever a March-wind sighs He sets the jewel print of your feet In violets blue as your eyes." All this rapturous love is blurred and dashed to the dust, however, by a sudden blow struck at the betrothed of Maud by the hand of her brother, fol lowed by a duel iu " the red-ribbed hollow behind the wood," when the Sultan is killed—an event driv ing Maud into an early grave, her betrothed to a hurried self-exile in Brittany, subsequently into a mad-house on his return homewards, and ulti mately, on his return to reason, into a morbid kind of vague cosmopolitan philanthropy. Behold, in these few incidents, the gist of the plot of Maud— a love story in verse, told through the errant man nerisms, and varying measures, and alternating moods, the peculiarities of which the reader of our remarks may now very readily conjecture through the medium of the foregoing illustrative fragments introduced here by way of explanatory quotation. In conception, as in execution, the poem is altogether too incoherent to be ranked otherwise than very low indeed among the laureate's now rather numerous metrical performances. We cannot but regret when we hear a voice so strangely melodious by nature jarring into such dissonant colloquialisms as those which grate upon our senses when we listen to a rhyming babble about "perky larches and pines," or about peaks of the wood " caught and euff'd by the gale," or heark ening to affected diminutives like "the least little touch of spleen," diminutives kindred in character to that senseless superlative at which we have already directed a passing glance of (it may be cap tious) observation. The philosophic purpose of the poem, for such a purpose, notwithstanding its ge neral incoherence, it appears to us to evidence throughout, may be recognised, we cannot but conjecture, clearly enough, through the thought thus curiously expressed— " As nine months go to shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man :" followed some time afterwards by that forceful ejaculation, the reason of which, particularly at this all-important juncture in our national desti nies, but few amongst us can fail to consider— " Ah God, for a man with heart,lhead, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant livid, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat—one Who can rule and dare not lie." A chief-of-men for the men of England, such as our Imperial ally, the Third Napoleon, is at this mo ment for more than thirty-five millions of French men. Passing on, however, at last from the con sideration of " Maud" exclusively, we may com mend (in spite of occasional freaks of fancy, such as that ludicrously quaint conceit about grass hoppers, in which they are spoken of as— ' " High-elbow'd grip that leap in summer grass):" we may commend for an exceeding grace, and sometimes for a bewitching tenderness that Idyl of " The Brook," the refrain of which is merely the repetition of one familiar, years ago, to the lovers of the lyrics of Tennyson— ' " But not by thee, by steps shall be For ever and for ever." The jewel, the flower, the glory of the little book, howbeit, to our mind is discoverable in the six stanzas comprised between pp. 115 and 118, en titled, simply enough, "The Letters." It is the only portion of the work, we conceive, in any way worthy of the Poet Laureate. And it is such, briefly, as a snatch of song, throbbing with pas sion, full of grace and tenderness and melody. Not thus is it with the five remaining pieces, to us mere scraps of indifferently meritorious versifica tion. A hunchback bedizened with jewels—pearl, and topaz, and amethyst, and beryl, and onyx, and malachite, adorning his "little dorsal irregularity " —might be regarded, indeed, as the not wholly inapt symbol or incarnation of a book as distorted in structure, as stunted in dimensions, as it has been laboriously overladen, here and there, with the rarest and loveliest, but, at the same time, the most bizarre and incongruous of decorations. Morednn : A Tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten. By W. S. 3 vols. Sampson, Low, and Son. Another of the Curiosities of Literature ! And, as such, assuredly entitled to at least some passing consideration. Imagine a fiction in three volumes assuming to itself the glory of having emanated from the hand of Sir Walter Scott, coming from the press at any time, in any shape, under any TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. Maud, aild other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. Edward Moxon. An indifferent poem by an exquisite poet is necessarily a source to his admirers of very grievous disappointment. That disappointment we have ourselves but just experienced. We have risen from the perusal of " Maud, and other Poems," by Alfred Tennyson, with a somewhat poignant re gret that one so rarely gifted as the Poet Laureate should have rushed into print with a volume alto gether so unworthy of his reputation. That repu tation has happily long since become firmly estab lished—otherwise the apparition of a ghost of a poem like " Maud," must perforce have seriously jeopardised its consolidation. While, however, we are compelled to take exception thus earnestly to the issue of a work by Mr. Tennyson, so unsatis factory as au emanation of his peculiar genius, it must be confessed that we do so principally out of the very fullness of our admiration of powers we conceive to have been, herein, most inadequately represented. Grateful in the recollection of those treasures of poetry which his hand has poured forth so unstintingly into the lap of his own privileged gene ration, we are inflamed by mingled feelings of regret and amazement, when we find the merest pebble drop ped from the same honoured palm, the palm which has so often endow( d us, as with benefaction after benefaction, with those— " Jewels five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever,"— gems of verse, " pearls of great price," floating to us from the golden waters of the Pactolus of Poet land, each, so to speak, " one entire and perfect chrysolite." By the memory of " Locksley Hall" alone we might claim the privilege of protesting against "Maud," as altogether unworthy of Alfred Tennyson. Assuredly, then, we may be permitted so to repudiate this poem as an illegitimate off spring of the intellect of our laureate, when asso ciated with the memory of " Locksley Hall," we cherish in tender recollection " Oriana," and the " Lotus Eaters," and the "Miller's Daughter," and " Marian',a," and Lilian," and " Eleanor," and "Margaret," and with those, too, "The Sleeping Beauty," and the " Lady of Burleigh," and " Godiva," and " (Enone," and " Dora," and the fragment of " Arthur," and all those delicious effu sions of a rare poetic genius—a genius which may be said to have approached its meridian upon the appearance of " The Princess," and to have in a manner culminated on the advent of " In Memo riam." Nevertheless, while protesting against the mere supposition, for one instant, that the thin little volume of 154 pages, entitled ." Maud, and other Poems," is to be accepted by us as a not un worthy sequel to productions such as those we have just honeyed the ink in our pen by enumerat ing, it must be added entirely as a matter of course and as it were by a wholly unavoidable necessity, that the " plot" of this same " Maud" is sown thickly, here and there, with sweetest thoughts and daintiest expressions the frondage and efflorescence of a luxuriant and cultivated imagi nation. It has been seriously suggested by a contemporary critic, that the poem, as such, is intended to be regarded as nothing else than an allegory of the war, and through that as a satire on the present generation. According to which fantastic hypothesis Maud herself is to be considered as an incarnation of the age, her com panions in the story being symbolical, more or less directly, of the good or evil influences and results of our existing state of civilisation. For ourselves we cannot but laugh to scorn any such preposte rous absurdities in the way of elucidation —believ ing them in our conscience to be entirely alien from the more simple, and earnest, and natural aim of the Poet Laureate ! That aim we conceive to have been throughout the natural, and earnest, and simple narrative of a love story, replete with pas sionate meaning and emotional significance—a love story telling us how Maud was won and lost, and how the hero of the piece, the nameless lover of Maud, a philanthropic misanthrope at first, be comes at last, through varying stages of love and madness, what might be best described, perhaps, by a reversed antithesis of phrase, as a misanthropic philanthropist. The poem is portioned out in six and twenty divisions—written in all imaginable varieties of metre, of tone, of stanza—now pathetic, now sprightly, now graceful, now lugubrious—here sportive quatrains, here sorrowful couplets, there wandering off into all kinds of rhythmical conceits, rhyming vagaries,and melodiousfluctuationsofstyle, of measure, of thought, and even, be it said, of phra seology. For, at intervals the poem is rendered as remarkable by its colloquial homeliness as at other times by its refined elevation of language— language then occasionally as lovely by reason of the exquisite delicacy of its rhetorical artifice as it unquestionably is through the adroitly-introduced, though seeming spontaneous, influence of its dulcet and musical intonation. Maud, be it said at once, is th - offspring of an arrant old hunx, who before the story begins, appears to have acquired con sicleiable wealth by the ruin of the father of the youthful misanthrope, once the child-playmate and eventually the lover and beloved of that priceless pearl and paragon of the grim curmudgeon—" a grey old wolf and a lean "—Maud, 'seen in the daylight with her " cold and clear-cut face " Maud, thought of by night " luminous, gem-like, ghost-like, death-like,"--Maud, the " milk-white fawn "—" fed on the roses and lain in the lilies of life "—Maud, with . ler sunny hair An smile as sunny as cold"— Maud, cries her lover " My Delight,"— " Maud, my bliss, Maud, made my Maud by that long lover's kiss"— Maud, "Queen lily and rose in one." Maud, clad— " In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Shin ng out with a head sunning over with curls, Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls." Maud, in short, the exquisite, the incomparable, the divine, and wondrously beautiful goddess of the young dreamer's distraught imagination. Dis traught his imagination is, before Maud comes back to the hall in the flower of her perfected maiden hood, distraught by the remembrance of— " The shrill-edged shriek of a mother dividing the shud dering night." When the father is brought home dead—either by suicide or murder—from— The dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above all dabbled with blood-red heath, The red-ribbed ledges dripping with silent horror of blood, And Echo there, whatever is asked her, answering ' Death !' " Thither the old man, bankrupt in fortune and hap piness, had wandded.out in the autumnal evening— " . . Where the wind like a broken worldling wailed, And the flying gold of the ruined woodlands drove through the air." Thence his mangled remains are brought home wards to be buried—there, hard by the desolated hearth, where the son is one day, long after, startled from his sorrowful musings, by intelligence that the adjacent hall " the dark old place," to be " gilt by the touch of a millionuaire," is being made ready for Maud and the Sultan (later on, so called) her brother. Maud, remembered only as she was a little after infancy— " Maud, with her venturous climbing sand troub l es, and childish escapes, Ma b u a d li, the delight of the village, the ringi ng j oy o f th e Maud, with, her sweet purse•mouth when my father dan gled the grapes, appears now to the gaze of her sometime playmate as she is, in all the loveliness of "sweet seventeen"— " Perfectly beautiful . • • • Faultily faultless, icily regular, , plendidly null, Dead perfection ..... So that he almost longs for a flow somewhere— " For a chance of travel, a paleness, an hour's defect of the rose, Or an underlip, you may call it a little too ripe, too full, Or the least little acquiiine curve in a sensitive nose." After this fashion he speaks of Maud, and a little later s l u v l e t an, find himherßrother-- r t o h t us e r_carping and cavilling' over the 44 • • • . That dandy despot, he, That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull Smelling of musk and of insolence." Adding a little further on in the narrative— " His form I grant in spite of spite, Has a broad brown comeliness red and white, And six feet two as I think he stands. But his essences turn the live air sick, And barbarous opulence jewel thick Suns itself on his breast and hands." Returning to the hall from abroad, Maud and her brother arrive about the dawn of the fair spring season, when in the little grove— "g million emeralds break from the ruby•buddal lime." Frozen back at first into himself by the sight of what ho imagines to be Maud's frigidity of loveli ness, the young dreamer reverts for relief to his previous solitude and meditation. List'ning now to the tide in its broadflung, shipwrecking roar, Now to the scream of a maddened beach dragged down by the wave :" But waking up at last to the recognition of " Maud, in all her glory," when h beholds again St. ZO St. 100 SA 100 14, 4.11 all 16F, 1230 9 130 21;.?, 10 22 all all •1011 e this day. 70} 2 70 1 104 56i i 7 94i 5 41 5i 481 9 39a 48i 7i 40,1 40 Puqpices, no matter how suspicious, and then fancy the possibility of our passing it by with a momentary sneer of incredulity, or a scarcely perceptible shrug of indifference. The notion would be preposter ous. It would be more than preposterous—it would be ungrateful. Besides, let it be confessed at once that our curiosity in regard to anything which might affect to have proceeded from the pen of the author of " Waverley " is altogether too lively in its character to be appeased willingly by a mere glance of unbelieving superciliousness. More particularly when the work in question as sumes to itself the grandiose dignity of a veritable • historical romance, - a romance of the middle ages, of the alluring days of chivalry, of the times heroically illustrated by the feats of the crusaders and immortalised by the songs of the trouveres. Moredun actually comes before us with this aspect of twofold attractiveness. It " undertakes" to be a posthumous tale of the Great Unknown ! It— " Assumes the God, ffects to nod -" and not only affects, unfortunately, but absolutely does nod (like Homer of old) sometimes—talking throughout in the grand tone, and with the sesqui pedalia verba, sprinkled here and there with in genious Scoticisme, flavoured with colloquial plea santry. Added to all which the story, such as it is, proves on perusal to be verily, and, indeed, a historical romance, a narrative of the thirteenth century, affectedly intimated so to be, by that second, or explanatory, title, which tells us that " Moreduu" is " A Tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten"—the definite article here italicised being there somewhat indefinitely introduced. A his torical romance—fancy this, yo lovers of the "Talisman" and " Woodstock," of " Ivanhoe" and "Quentin Durward" — en historical romance by W (alter) S (cott), introducing us to John Lack laud of England, and William the Lion of Scot land ! The hero, h imself—Moredun—being no less gloriously horn than a son of Richard Coeur de Lion, not as the bastard offspring of the lion-hearted, like Shakspere's Falcon bridge, but as the fruit of an earlier marriage than that afterwards contracted with Berengeria. It must be admitted by the least credulous realer of " Moredun"—so at any rate it appears to us— that its editor, M. E. De Saint Maurice Cabany, hae introduced it to the world with a profound belief in his own mind that it is, in very truth, an emanation of the genius of Sir Walter Scott. Every syllable of the " Introduction," dated Paris, 15th April, 1855, goes to attest the sincerity of this con viction. As the proprietor of " Moredun," M. Ca bany has, of course, an interest in so believing— but as the editor of it, he affords ample testimony that something more worthy of note than mere idle conjectures have conducted him to a conclusion so very remarkable. His account of the manner in which the MS. came originally into his posses sion is sufficiently extraordinary. But, however extraordinary in its details, it possesses in its en tirety a certain coherent consistency. In examin ing into the nature of his statement, it must be remembered that M. De Saint Maurice Cabany is uo mere obscure literary adventurer, but a man of considerable acquirements, and of long-esta blished reputation. This he has demonstrated, during some years past, in his charac ter as " Directeur General de la Societe des Archivistes de,France," as well as in his re sponsible position as " Directeur Redacteur en chef du Necrologe, Universel du XIX. Siecle," " Boulevard Beaumarchais, No. 91." Besides which, as M. Cabany tells us in his " Introduc tion" (p. lxi.), his profession is essentially that of a biographer, a circumstance which ho declares has rendered habitual and easy to him " the collecting and sifting of evidence—the translation and exa mination of manuscripts." Wherefore, ho really seems to have been in a measure qualified, al though a Frenchman, to enter into the literary controversy upon which a curious combination of circumstances have in the instance before us led him rather daringly to adventure. As to the story he tells us—positively—on his faith and honour as a gentleman, about the rich, elderly, eccentric German merchant, who about thirty years ago, having retired from business and taken up his abode in Paris, conceived a strange longing to possess an original work by Sir Walter Scott—well, the thing is, of course, just possible. It is just possible that such a man had such a longing. It is just possible —observe ! just possible that Scott, hearing of this strange monomania of a strange biblio-maniac, should for purposes of his own comply with the en treaties conveyed to him by his bizarre admirer. But, no ! M. Cabany does not appear to us to im ply for ono instant that Sir Waiter believed in the story about the German merchant. According to the statement of the matter as put forth by the French editor of " Moredun" in his Introduction. —it is intimated to us that Sir Walter Scott re garded that story about the German wholly as an ingenious device of his friend, William Spencer, then rather down in the ' world, and residing in Paris at the very time when Scott visited the French capital in his ridiculously hurried search after stray anecdotes and frivolous memorabilia wherewith to enhance the value of his voluminous biography of Napoleon, then on the eve of publica tion. William Spencer, we all know, was an inti mate friend of Walter Scott's. He was at the pe riod specified in exceedingly embarrassed circum stances. Scott was willing, even anxious, we may believe, to befriend him—and at the same time was eagerly looking out for some means of extricating himself from the tremendous pecu niary liabilities incurred by him in consequence of the bankruptcy of the Edinburgh publishers, who were not only his publishers, but actu ! ally his partners, and for the liquidation of the debts of whose house the great novelist was then writing for the bare life, writing himself actu ally, as it proved, alas ! soon afterwards, into a state of mental imbecility, and ,through thatl into his grave. Sir Walter then, we are toll, while winning by his pen of magic thousands upon thou sands of pounds sterling wherewith to rid himself of the incubus of debt weighing him down to the very dust, felt within him the old familiar passion of the story-teller, who yearns to escape from mere hack-work to the wonted ground upon which he had in secresy built up his wondrous reputation. M. Cabany suggests to us that he seized the appli cation made to him by his unfortunate friend, Wil liam Spencer, as the anxiously-looked -for oppor tunity. That Scott gave Spencer the MS. of this historical romance of " Moredun" to be brought out either under the mask of their common initials (W. S.), or under th e s till more i nscru t a bl e dis guise of the strictly anonymous. Instead of which we are informed, the reality of the story about the wealthy old German merchant, supposed by Scott, hints the editor of "Moredun," to be purely hy pothetical or supposititious, led to the precious holograph being treasured up in an old desk for thirty years, instead of being given to the world forthwith, as a new venture by Scott, for the ac quisition fof an entirely fresh reputation. W e ll, all this, we repeat, though to the very last degree improbable, is, at any rate at the same time, as we have before observed, just barely possible ! We all of us remember, for example, how, in our own time, the Great Genius of Fiction, who is the Sir Walter Scott, and in many respects even a great deal more than the Sir Walter Scott of our gene ration, we mean, of cou rse , Si r E dward George Earle Bulwer Lytton, has more than once made for himself in secresy at first, now in one direction, and now in another, a perfectly fresh and distinct series of additional reputations. It was not as the brilliant author of " Pelham," for example, but as a new writer that h e gave to the world his charming tale of " Godolphin." And to do no more than glance at the covert issue of " The Can tons," and "My No ve l," th roug h B lackwood ' s Magazine, do we not all of us remember how his sparkling poem, half love story, half satire, " The New Timon," and how after " The .New Timon," his magnificent epic, in twelve books, " King Arthur," 1 the day-dream of Dryden and of Milton, which it was left for Bulwer to realise, appeared originally, in the very strictest sense of the word, anonymously. Insomuch so that when the reviewers, and foremost amongst them (at least be it said in point of time) ourselves, declared that Bulwer, and no other than Bulwer, could be the wr it er either of " The New Timon" or of " King Arthur," the publisher of M. Cabany 111 ic r those works, with a daring we have never been able to reconcile with our notions of absolute moral re d titude,distinctly announced that he was authorised to contradict that assertion as to their authorship.,ve_one What we know Sir Bulwer Lytton to immediateh, done more more than once, in ou r own generation, Sir Walter Scott is under the as attempting to do in his time --namely, for himself a , mask of a new secresy, to hero represented. Considered fabricat e u in s theo lthe abstract,p project o j.e e t that w s speaking, quite con is, strictlytellsa fresh reputation. fact, according to hiac count purpose, we say, ceivable. baulked by the simply breathing t 0 accept the t of w a s t lie no transaction, myth, but that living v t i l n g andG eccentricity. If w e are ,c _ statement r by the editor of Aloredun,', William misunderstood Walter ac esa—insomuch so that " Moreduti "only now, its is appear ancemakes first instead Smpaeinece of thirty years ago, as the production of W. S. it is altogether a mistake, by the way, to supp ose, as some appear to have done, through an inad ve rt ent i nattention to dates, that M. Cabany dla"Moredun " fro m th e presseunyteild thte death he of f Scott's son-in-law, the late lamented Mr. Lockhart. That, in justice to M. Cabany, ought not to be over looked. It is a circumstance placed entirely beyond the reach of contradiction by the fact mentioned at the tenth page of the " Introduction," to the effect that on the 25th of November, 1851, "a short notice of the discovery appeared in The Sun news paper in London, and singularly enough (adds M. Cabany) the same day Mr. Lockhart died sud denly at Abbotsford, in Scotland." In this manner we find ourselves unexpectedly called into court as a witness in the case, capable of proving, by the evidence derivable from a file of our journal, that at least so far one argument of a suspicious character among those brought for ward against the proprietor and editor of " More duu" is altogether and most positively inadmissible. As we have already remarked, M. Cabany himself appears to us to be firmly impressed with a belief in, the authenticity of the work in question as a verit able production of Sir Walter Scott. The author ship, of course, remains to this moment entirely a matter of opinion. It is the opinion of M. Cabany that " Moredun "is a work of Scott's. It ie ours —most decidedly—that it is not. We believe it to be, in our conscience we believe it to be, another ingenious contrefacon—nothing more than a can, trefacult. Bat not, as the majority of our con temporaries appear to have insisted, we cannot but think somewhat unfairly, a forgery to the last de gree contemptible and ridiculous. On the contrary, it appears to us, here and there, to be so ingenious of its kind as to be entitled iu some measure t o a sort of spurious admiration. " Vortigern " was, if you please, contemptible enough, but " More dun " is at least so far as any such imitation can be, in one sense of the word, respectable. Could we by possibility suppose it for one instant to be a veritable offspring of the great Scotch novelist's imagination, we must perforce regard it as one of singularly inferior pretensions. If " Moredun " can be said to resemble in any respect a his torical-romance by Sir Walter Scott, it can only be after the somewhat indefinite manner in which a rough drawing in distemper, touched here and there with lather,. ink, can be sup posed to bear any likeness whatever to some gorgeously-colonic:1 masterpiece from the hand of a Rubens or a Tintoretto. Nevertheless, we are well acquainted, through the examples pre sented to view by every literature that the loftiest genius is occasionally liable to periods of hallucina tion. Have we forgotten that Sir Walter himself wrote "St. Ronan's Well ?" Do we not remember that Lord Byron penned " The Deformed Trans formed ?" Cannot we call to mind how Bulwer once upon a time presented to the world " The Siamese Twins," and Dickens " Bleak House,"and Thackeray book after book like " Rebecca and Rowena," and the abominable " Kickleburys ?" Wherefore, the insignificance of the work under notice as compared with the succession of inimit able masterpieces making up the aggregate of the Waverley Novels, could not reasonably be regarded as affording us, of itself, conclusive testimony of the spuriousness of " Moredun." That testimony we conceive to be so manifold as to require in no way to be here deliberately particularised. It abounds in every page of the production, and of such pages there are not less than 755 altogether. Mystically enough the motto chosen for his narra tive by W. S. has been selected by him from " Les Plaideurs," running to this effect somewhat in coherently, " Je finis ! Ah ! Avant la naissance du monde . . . Passons au deluge !" Quaintly chosen, too, is the sentence from Bayes prefixed to the second volume—" If I am to write familiar things as sonnets to Armida, and the like, I make use of stewed prunes only ; but when I have a grand design in hand, I even take physic and let blood." Wherefore we are left to presume, of course, that W. S., before sitting down to the com position of this wonderful historico-romantic galli maufry of " Moredun," consented to be phleboto naised to an extent gratifying to the heart of a Sangrado. Quoting Cumberland on the title-page of volume three, our novelist is heard explaining apologetically, " Well, Mr. Belconr, it is a rough sample you have had of my countrymen's spirit ; but I trust you will not think the worse of them for it." A rough sample, beginning with the sudden breaking up of the frost at Scone, and ending with the melodramatic spec tacle presented to view in the moot-hall in the an cient city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Sometimes the incidents recounted are those of contrabandist adventure—sometimes of knightly tournay—somes times of necromantic mysteriousness : occasionally of storm and conflagration —once of shipwreck— and repeatedly of bloodshed, now by open contest, and now again by dastardly assassination. Both the English King John, and the Northern monarch, William the Lion of Scotland, appear upon the scene rather frequently. Moredun, the sou of the Crusading Richard, is, of course, the hero of the romance—the heroine being the fair Lady of Scone, the Lady Isabella of Huntingdon. Besides the two sovereigns already mentioned, another crowned potentate brings the attraction of his strange history to the plot in the person of a supposed Smuggler Captain, known throughout only by the name of Maelstrom, but who proves in the closing scene of the story to be no less august a personage t han Isaac, King of Cyprus. Wonderfully conspicuous, however, among the grander forms depicted, are those three Caledonian youths, as like as peas, esquires in po sition though knight-errants in conduct, Maleolne Beg, Tam Macduff, and Adam Peebles. These three callants are to the story of " Moredun " all-essen tial arid übiquitous, everywhere and everything, We follow their footsteps, wondering and curious as to what may happen now in the cavernous ruin., of Marsden. Rocks, now in the garrets of the an cient hostelry of the Crown and Anchor, now iu the green depths of the sylvan Sherwood, and so on, through adventure after adventure. It is the one merit of the tale that it abounds in stirring in cidents, in hair-breadth 'scapes, in breathless catas trophes, in situations of a kind as unexpected as they are extraordinary. But from first to last the whole fiction is a clever make-believe—a specious affectation in style and manner such as can deceive few besides the gifted critic, who has for once al lowed himself to become the dupe of some invisible and ingenious literary ventriloquist. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 27.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; dull, cloudy weather. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived.—Richard and Francis, from Rotterdam ; Era, Swansea; George, Plymouth ; A rgy ll (s.), Carentan ; Al liance (s.), Havre ; George, Cherbourg; Anne and Wil liam John, Newport; Hermion, Sunderland; Bessie, Lyme; Sylph (s.), London. Sailed—Enigheden and Neptunus, for Norway ; Helga, Shields ; Atalanta (s.), Havre ; Sylph (s.), London ; Breeze, Swansea. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Lady Franklin, from St. Stephen's ; Kedah, Richibuct o ; Ro`oeit and Sarah, Alexandria; Lima, Se. villa ; James Annand, Roquijada ; Benedictus, Nadokou. Off—Peruvian, Rebecca, and Ocean Breeze. Sailed—Labuan, for Singapore; Volga, Fayal. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 24 and 25. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Corinthia, from Callao ; Annie Hall, Ardros• san ; Glencapale, Salonica ; Emma, Cadiz ; Cape Breton s Rio de la Hache. Sailed—lncomparable, for Lisbon. CDT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.18 a.m. Wind, S.W. ; tide, one hours' flood ; fine. Arrived, Aug. 26—Albert Edward, from Bremen; Susan, St. Vincent; Gezusters, Danzi Caroline, quern . g ; soy; Idas, St. Lucia; Y or k T own , N ow Y or k; For Wads. Liberia Arrived, Aug. 27—Indi a , f rom Alexandria. Sailed—Chamois, for Ceylon. a g,,5 a.m. DEAL, .1 102-3 Y, _ Wind S.S.W., moderate. Anchored—British Empire. from London, for Siena Leone ; Acatus, London, for Plymouth ; Heylia, London. fur Glasgow; Trois So3nrs, London, for ?Marseilles; Em. peror, London, for Sydney. at his villa, neaasr aLrirmiveerdickin. London from Lord and Lady /llon t e a ; g ho l i e r_d a:e on o ( n if t a he v l i a si t t e to sir Robert O'Brien, Esq., been compelled. to return to his native PeCela,pltaatienin theWilliam o m P m e : s a l 'el d has the Diamond, and of the ~,;,l i ore a ufta l inn t atad r u, Notice has been issued that on Friday neat, the 31st inst., the British Museum would b evaßlatcikor :Tl -- 'e - Museum will be re-opened yethrufaraivolmnatghlill health. to the public on Monday, TIIE AMERICAN MAIL of September. s. —The United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. Briggs, sailed from the Mer sey nt e a.m., on Saturday, ' New York with the usual mails for the United ' ' States, California, &c., 220 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on board. MURA.TIST PROCLAMATIO SICILY.---A Muratist proel eanat i_ . . NIN ... . up. is said to be extensively circulating in Sicily. It • ..... . is added that one phrase used in it by Prince Murat is, " The hour is conic for the people to rise. I will not impose myself upon them, but I declare myself ready to answer their call." the 10th of closed for the an. ASTUT'S ROYAL AMPLIITINATRE. The continued success of Mazeppa is beyond belief. This magnificent spectacle, the ne plus ultra of the equestrian drama, is drawing crowded hnues nightly, while the equestrian displays in the circle, produced by Mr. William Cooke, are the theme of general admiration. To render the entertainment unusually attractive Mr. Nelson Lee's laughable farce of a Raffle for an. Elephant has been added to the amusement, in which the wonderful per formance of Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Elephants will take place. The theatre is crowded nightly. THE ORLEANS FAMILY.— On Friday last the Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours and family, left Beaumaris for Claremont. The Duke sad Duchess d'Aumale, the Princess Salerno, and suite, left at the same time for Orleans-house, Twickenham. Among the fashionable departures from Carnarvon during the week we may notice that of the Dowager Countess of Carnarvon. The annual six weeks' vacation Vernon Collection of lery, Trafalgar-square, and the . . _ Pall Mall, is appointed Paintings, Marlborough-house, ~ reopened to the to commence Sept. 13. They Will be Te- . 0 public on the 29th of October. at the National Gal- 100 100 100 20 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 25 i 73 5i 83} 3 70i 1 73A 4 11 * 107 i 13 62/ 2