The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Ot.tton Market yesterday closed very firmly at extreme prices for the current qua lities, but new American descriptions, from 5211. to 61. per lb., were cheaper to purchase. The sales were 10,000 bales, comprising 300 Pernam and Maranham at 51d. to 7d., 900 Bahia at 6d., 100 Egyptian at 6d. to 70, 2,500 Surat at 3d. to 4d., and 60 Sea Islands at 10d. to 114 d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was steady at about Tuesday's prices. Advices from Havre mention that there is an unusual demand for cotton in that market ; and that the direct trade with America continues to increase. Sales of 2,500 of inferior New Orleans took place at 90f., and for ordinary qualities at 93f. and 94f. Another lot of 3,000 bales changed hands at 84f. for inferior, 85f. 50c. for middling Orleans, and 88f. for good middling. Sugar at this market continues to fall. Reports from the principal grain markets through out Belgium show a further tendency to fall. The quotations are lfr. 75c. less per hectolitre for wheat, and lfr. 40c. for rye, which has caused a fall in the price of bread from 30c. to 24c. in many localities. On the Paris Bourse yesterday, the French Rentes showed a further tendency to decline, hav ing receded 10 centimes for the 3 per Cents., other securities falling in proportion. In the Share Mar ket those stocks which had advanced rapidly dur ing last week declined as suddenly, especially in those of the Credit Mobilier, which fell 45 francs in two days. In other Foreign Bourses there is not much variation upon previous quotations. At Vienna the 5 per Cents. are 731, New Loan 98, New Bank Shares 934. Exchange on London has gone down to 10-48, and on Paris 1284. At Bet lin the 4 per Cents. are 974, and the 44 stock of 1854, 1084. Bank Shares 1214. At Frankfort the 5 per Cents. are 654, the 44 per Cents. sq. Bank Shares 993, and on the Madrid Bourse there is a tendency to rise. The 3 per Cents. rule at 34 98, and New dill. 20 80. Accounts from Brussels state that the Minister of Finance has presented a project to prorogue the law of the 31st December, 1813, to the Ist January, 1857, which authorises the Government to suspend or to re-establish the import duties on coal. The departure of the Marco Polo from Liver pool with the Australian mails was deferred until thwmorning, which is one day later than the time Wpointed by the postal authorities, on account of 04 tide not serving on the sth. The owners announced on the 4th that yesterday's day MI from London would be in time, but this as no accommodation, as it left at 8 o'clock a• In. Much dissatisfaction has, been expressed in the City that the vessel was not further elayed an hour or two, as by this arrangement yesterday's 6 p.m. mail would have been in time, " ( A the mercantile public would have then had ti• c advantage of an entire day. The arrival of the Phoenician is announced this lllk4saing from Sydney, with 13,702 ounces of gold anu 11,029 sovereigns, making a total of about 6,0171. This is the fourth vessel from Australia 11 at has lately arrived with large gold re mittances ; but unfortunately, owing to the klate of the foreign exchanges, the principal I art has been transmitted to Paris. In the present instance it is believed a portion of this sum 'IN ill find its way across the Channel. Other yes- FeN, however, are expected ; and, if the present peace rumours turn out to be well founded, there is every expectation that the money market will become easier and trade experience some revival. At the commencement of business some depres sion was exhibited in the quotations of the English Securities ; and although this has not been wholly recovered, the market is now much firmer. The settlement of the account is passing off satis factorily. Consols opened at about 901 but have since been 90i ; and for account the prices have ruled at 90 to 91. The New Three per Cents. have fluctuated from 89i to 90, and the Reduced from 891 to 891. Bank Stock is steady at 209 to 2101. Exchequer Bills have risen ls., being 6s. to 2s. discount, and India Bonds are ss. to ls. discount. There has been less steadiness in the quotations of the Foreign Stocks, especially in Turkish 6 per Cents., which have ranged from 842 to 851, at about which latter values they are now quoted. The New Scrip has been 2i to 2i, and at present rules at 2i discount. Russian 4/ per Cents. are 891 to 90, Peruvian 4/ per Cents. 76, Milian 6 per Cents. 101, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. 99k, Dutch 2i per Cents. are marked 64, and the 3 per Cents. 93/ to 931, being at steady rates. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ; Mexican, 191 to 20 ; Peruvian, 75 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents.,44 to 46 ; Russian Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 88 to 90; Spanish New Deferred, 201 to 21; ditto Three per Cents., 39 to 401 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 4i ; ditto Pas sive, Gi to 7i. Although the transactions in the Railway Share Market are circumscribed the quotations in several instances show a slight improvement. This is most observable iu the Caledonian, Eastern Countits, Great Western, North Western, South Western, and Midland. The North Eastern-Berwick are fully 10s. better. The foreign lines are particularly quiet. Great Western of Canada shares further tended upwards. The traffic returns of this line are steadily improving. _ _ Mining Shares are — firm and also those of the Joint Stock Banks. Peninsular and Oriental dropped about 21. Van Diemen's Land have fur ther advanced V. 10s. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, are in round figures as under : 1855. £23.189 55,129 12,398 11,361 28,129 15,339 11,308 26.406 20,173 Great Western North-Western South-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 18M. £20,466 48,297 10,153 10,527 26,458 13,652 11,340 21,835 18,471 North-Eastern Manchester and Sheffield Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Glasgow and South-Western Scottish Central Great Western of Canada 31,257 10,037 3,255 6,036 2,375 12,077 28,085 9,631 2,832 5,430 2,279 7,413 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Pram the OfSeial List.) Buqmol, don, Bank Stock 3 oer ueut. Reduced Annuities 3 par Cent Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 89; 50 - Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... Ditto 3') Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 3 13-16 India Bonds, £lOOO Consols for Account . 90j 1 Etchequar Bills, 23d. £l000 Rma11......... .. ...... . ............... 1 5 Ditto Bonds, 1R58,33 per Cent 97j gi t f P 1859 •••••• 07j 8i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO x. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4. per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ 83i a d Spanish Boucle, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Tnrkibh Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto for the Account B5 41 5} 5 Ditto New '4crip, 4 per Cent. Ditte Account... 2i 1 k d fliv,innds on the above navnhle In London. Dutch Exchange, 23 per Cent., 12 Gull_ 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Consols TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto for A ccoun t THE DANISH ORDER OF THE ELEPHANT.—The Order of the Elephant, conferred by the King of Denmark on General Canrobert, is a remarkable distinc tion, the order not being generally given, except to members of reigning houses, or to the highest digni taries of foreign powers, and even the latter only receive it on very exceptional occasions. In conferring it on General Canrobert, the Danish Government wished at the same time to perform an act of courtesy towards the Emperor of the French, and to pay homage to the bravery mind talent of his Envoy. 20 5 .t 0 18 Nn 16 20 25 125 10 toy THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY fr, Y fr; lv 114 el DECEMBER 6 1855, LINES r,PASED FIXED RENTAL 9, Itim.wkil. Loath COWPang Clamp Price. yeater lay. easuleas this day Bedford and Blot ch ley Bnckghamsh. Clydesdale .J(% Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. gpc E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr. lit Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk, & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preferetwe Lon.,Til., &S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. 'Wane]) Batas. and Matloolr Middlosbi Redcar London & N. We Caledon... E. Un. & E. C... E. Count. ezadonian. Do (it. Westt Yk. New. & Bcrw. Y. & N M Do.. Do.. S. Easter, Do Peto k Co Norfolk Do L.& N. & Stektori Midland, .1 Midld.Bra.if Newmarket Bury Exteu... N.& Est.s p. c. Do. 6 ner et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. Do. Qr.,. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth rn Gooleg.s p. c. Shrews.&Her, S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do Conn, E. Conut. L. &N.W Do (It North• Laneash & Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MC tean Stook t. & Darlingt Wilt9/z"'o -- rst lqtwetn. 0 St. 20 St. St. St. St. 6 12i: 124 127 : St. 1 1 106. 20 1 90 - 93 94 - 98 toi 105 12 - 13 1123 -- 117 ;:~ _., ~~ 8) - par /p b 7 28 - 132 n - 8 1 3 - 361 -- 311 83 - 85 PREFERENCE SHARES, A berdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. . I tlyth andTyn , - 10 pe c. pref. (issd.atsol, Brie. & Ex. 4 p. e. Sig Do. 4 p. c. 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Do. do. 5 per cent_ '.on.&N. W., Coy. 4 , Nuneaton 5 p. ct ~,on. St S. W. 7 per c'. Lundy. & Color, Tiondy.& Ennis. 4 . !an., Shef., & tin. New, £]Q 4 l )o. £6 100 10 100 ,100 rlOO 0 . - arypt.k Carl. 4 p )o. 4i per cent T5(l. Consol.6 )o. Consol. Bristol 6 per cent. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. S' Do. Pref. 4 per eel Do. 5/. Pr. f. 4 p. c.. 'Ditto L.& H. Prof. Si Norfolk Dote/di:lry Do. Pref. 4 p. a. St ertt, ...... knglo Austria. Gold A.nglo Californian ... kustro lian tnstralian Cordillera kvo Maria 'laden (G(l.Thachy of 31tonarvon Iron and Coal . 3vitish Iron iltraziliaulmp.(issooel at kr:, pm.) Do. Cocites :Sc Cuiab Do. St. Johr Del Rey illarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper colonial Gold 107 -- 109 104 - 106 80 - 81 90 -- 92 93 :1 15 - 16 5f - 64 40 5 St. 45 I 1 i 1 - 1;2. ••• .. 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Royal Mai . t v 86 Berlin Water Work 7 76 50 40 Irit. American Lan ... 11(X, 12- flanacla St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. anu July lO9 110 1096 5 all Crystal Palace 2 2 5 5 Do. Preference ..... 46 4 4 all Crystal Pal.of Franc. 1 Duston Iron Oro 20 11 Eastern Steam._ 5 all En.dzAus Cop Sm Co if 16 25 24 Electric Telegraph lB 19 1 all Electric Toleg. of Ti 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 15 t 4 !4en. Steals Navigal. 1e all General Screw Stearn ... 15 14i 0 10 Irish Beetroot Suga , 20 10 Magdalena St. Navin; 10 all Xediteran. Eleo. Tel. 8 10 10 9 4exican&S Amerien 6 61 6/ 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 1.0 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 1 10 all Do. Do. 5 1 Do. 8p o P iss at 1 d die— par 2 1 N. S. W. Goal & inter. Stearn Navigat. no. 100 80 New B. &N. R. Land —19 i 1 all N. B Australasian fi 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropeStaan , • 1 all Oriental Gas — 1 2s. Do. " New Shares " . . all Peel Rr. W.& Minor]. 2 23 26 5 , all Peninsular& Orients 66 8 5 10 Do. New • .p 2 411 Portland Iron C 0...,, Ott .10 .Loyal Mail Steam 75 11 •4cot. Austral. Invest. 16 1. 6 Ditto New. 1 iP 4outb Austral. Land 5 17 si,bmar. Tel. Scrip • o• RegisterAd 20 5 i`rust& L. Oo.U. Can. 100 28i Y*4 ,DieD.Ple_i_lA4d 15, g, 17 161 HAWKER v. SEALE, BART. TRIAL BY JURY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—lnto the general question of the extraordinary character of that pot tion of our legal system, which ap plies to the seeking of pecuniary compensation in cases which clearly have no connection whatever with pounds, shillings, and pence, it is not my province to enter, nor will I stop to descant upon the cruelty and injustice which are often incidental to those fictions of law that are part and parcel of the peculiar procedure alluded to. But there is one anomaly that it may, perhaps, be useful to notice ; and the case of Hawker v. Scale, Bart., tried in the Court of Common Pleas last Monday, and re ported in the papers of the next day, seems to aft ird a fitting opportunity for its brief indication. In actions brought to recover damages for criminal conversation the parties principally concerned in the issue of the trial are not represented at all. Hence it is only reason. able to conclude that—as in the case which elicits these observations a frightful amount of in justice mast sometimes be done. Nair is the gravity of this gross injustice in any degree lightened by the consideration that its victim is woman—woman, I may add, whose actual positive helplessness in the business of life, and still more in the labyrinth of law, we are too much addicted to overlook. In certain crises most of us have felt that she is a ministering angel. We appre ciate and understand that—it is a result of common ex perience ; but the leiza . inaptitude, the business helpless ness of woman seldom, nay never, enters our head, as it, should do in the proper breadth of its significance. A woman, wore eepecially of the higher class, is in reality a child, and nothing but a child in regard to law and business. Stie knows nothing, absolutely nothing about either. But I menti on thi s p o i n t on ly incidentally. The main purpose in view is to invite public attention to a fact—" a great fact," and a very cruel fact, some wise men have considered it—namely, that the persons whose interests are most deeply concerned in the issue of a trial are not represented. Mrs. Hawker, the other day, was not represented at all. The forms of law forbade a not only full and fair representation, but all representa- tiou whatever of her interests—her vital, dearest lute rests. Against that lady the doors of the Court of Common Pleas - were virtually closed. And yet she was de facto on her trial. Surely, surely this is not as it should be. It is, I know, law, but it is not justice. When the issue to her was infinitely more serious than life and death, she was put aside—gagged and bound, it may be added, since for all practical purposes of assert. ing her innocence, and of vindicating her character from the foul aspersions cast upon it, the law took no more account of her interests, or her honour, than a herd of elephants may be supposed to take in the existence of a grasshopper. De rainimis lex non carat. Who will be hardy enough to contend that, if the much injured lady, who, I firmly believe, after a careful perusal of the evidence, as reported in the papers, is as pure and spotless as any woman in the world_i who will be so intrepid, I ask, as to deny that, if her in terests had been represented as they ought to have been, justice would have been done her ? Her wrongs would have been redressed, and instead of standing before the world as she now appears, to the crass and callous mul titude, blighted and branded, she would stand forth to the world in her proper and only character. Were the state of the law what law reformers urge that it ought to be her fair fame would not have been thus sullied, her feelings would not have been thus outraged, nor would her heart have been pierced by anguish such as woman alone can suffer from. But jus- tine has not been done her. She has been condemned, unheard and unrepresented, the forms of law precluding her from establishing her innocence. I impugn those forms,• in order that the Hon. Mr. Locke and other law reformers may perhaps be induced to look into this de partment of injustice, and provide an amendment. At any rate, in this case, which is but a sample of the sack, we see an accomplished young lady, of grea t beauty and high birth and breeding, by a curious kind of second-hand process, indirectly convicted of a crime for which no excuse over is, or ever ought to be, made. She is thus condemned, too, only on the evidence, if not entirely, chiefly, of a lodging house keeper, living in a kitchen, and her ser vant, one Parin de Maralid. How any jury, on the evi dence of these two women, could arrive at the conclu- sion conveyed by their verdict must be, to most men, perfectly incomprehensible. But verdicts, such as are now an every-day scandal, will soon bring into contempt trial by jury. S mae machinery more efficient for the administration o►f justice than the obsolete fiction of 1 - 2 good men and true must be devised. For verdicts are nowadays not seldom a solemn mockery ; they are in deed an outrage alike on intelligence and on justice.— I an, Sir, your obedient servant, LAW REFORMER. THE EASTEI‘N COUNTIES BAILWAY. sification, we could not but remember with plea sure many another worthier ebullition of his ge nius. Whether we laid aside with the sadness of chagrin " Christmas Eve and Easter Day," or, on the other hand, took up " Men and Women" with the eagerness of expectation, we could not but call to mind with a deep sense of intellectual obli gation the music and the fragrance resulting from the concord and the beauty of his " Bells and Pomegranates." We could not but muse with a certain degree of satisfaction over the memories of the dim " Sordello " and of the mysterious " Para celsus." We could not but recognise the high dra matic power manifested in " The Blot on the 'Scutcheon." Above all, we could not but cherish in our most grateful recollection the lyrical splendour of "Pippa Passes"—to our mind Robert Brown iug's undoubted masterpiece. Remembering " Pippa Passes" thus gratefully, although we were driven perforce to cast aside with scorn the moon-struck rhapsody o f " Ch r i s t mas E ve an d Ea s ter Day," we have recently taken up with hopeful curiosity the two newly-printed volumes of verse from the same hand, quaintly designated for want of some better title " Men and Women." The leaves of these volumes we have since then turned over with varying sensations of satisfaction and disap pointment. We have been revolted, for example, by the clever flippancy of " Bishop Blougram's Apology"—an apology i n w hi c h superstition and irreligion are jumbled detestably together in very frightful antithesis. We have been charmed by the graces scattered profusely over the genial stanzas dedicated to the subject of " Old Pic tures in Florence." We have listened with alternating emotions to our author's mus ings comfortably "By the Fireside," and picturesquely " Among the Ruins." We have looked, with him, now " Up at the Villa," now " Down in the City." We have heard him sing of the corpse of "Evelyn Hope" and of the ghost of " 6 Fra Lippo Lippi"—celebrating hero " A. Tocatta of Galuppi's," here again a fugue of " Master Hugues of Saxe Gotha." Startled may be one while by some such poetry as this : " So your fugue broadens and thickens, Greatens and deepens and lengthenQ,' Till one exclaims—' But where's music, the dickens ? Blot ye the gold, while your spider-web strengthens, Blacked to the stoutest of tickens 1' " Or bewildered by versification as incoherent as the following— " Who thinks Hugues wrote for the deaf ? Proved a mere mountain in labour ? Better submit—try again—what's the cleft ? 'Faith, it's no trifle for pipe and for tabor Four fiats—the minor in F. Friend, your fugue taxes the finger. Learning it once, who would lose it Yet all the while a misgiving will linger— Truth's golden o'er us although we refuse it— Nature, thro' dust-clouds we fling her ! Hugues I I advise mei porta (Counterpoint glares like a Gorgon) Bid One, Two, Three, Four, Five, clear the arena ! Say the word, straight I unstop the Full-Organ, Blare out the mode Palestine. While in the roof, if I'm right there— ...Lo, you, the wick, in the socket ! Hallo, you sacristan, show us a light there ! Down it dips, gone like a rocket ! What, you want, do you, to come unawares, Sweeping the church up for first morning prayers, And find a poor devil at end of his cares At the foot of your rotten-planked rat-riddled stairs ! Du I carry the moon in my pocket !" Dropping perchance at another moment upon a crazy halo scrap of interrogative quatrains such as the subjoined— ‘ 4 " Ah, did you once see Shelley plain And did he atop and speak to you ? And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at— My starting moves your laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breath of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about— For there I picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather— Well, I forget the rest." Decidedly, after all, we very much question whe ther a single one among these fifty minor poems by Robert Browning can add one leaf of bay to the garland worn by him for some time past as the poet of " Pippa Passes," of the " Blot on the 'Scut cheon,' " Sordello," of " Paracelsus," and (generally) of " Bells and Pomegranates." Frag mentary verses "In Three Days," " In a Year," " In a Balcony," about " A Light Woman," and a " Patriot," and " Before," and " Aft,er," and "Popularity," and " Misconceptions," pieces re lating to " Saul," and '' Pi otus," and " Clara," and " De Gustibus"—and for that matter, too, 1)e Omnibus—may be sprinkled sparsely hero and there with poetic beauties without materially tend ing in any way to enhance the writer's literary reputation. Particularly when, as in the present instance, these beauties aro plentifully intermingled with eccentricities, and prejudices, and absurdities, and platitudes beyond the grasp f the most for bearing reader's capacity for either patience or for giveness. Altogether the ground opened to us by this new work from the hand of Mr. Browning, though it may be starred at intervals with the primrose, and the violet, and the lily, and the car nation, is bristling all over with the nettle, and the thistle, and the burdock, with— " Agari, and fungi, and mildew, and mould"— mental weeds, and brambles, and parasites, as un sightly as unprofitable. The Life of Jeanne D' Albret, Omen of Navarre. By Martha Walker Freer. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. It will be remembered that some time ago a Life of Marguerite D'Angouleme, was published, being the first that had ever appeared in this country. The same authoress who so ably recounted the his tory of the brilliant sister of Francis the First has now given us the memoirs of her daughter. very different, however, are the histories of the two suc cessive Queens of Navarre —ono, the favourite of the King, the idol of the court, surrounded from her earliest youth by flatterers and admirers, with almost paramount influence over her powerful bro ther ; and, though she favoured the new doctrines, yet her support of them was rather evidenced by the concessions she obtained for others than by the persecutions she endured herself. Far other wise was it with her daughter. Of a more serious and resolute disposition than her mother, Jeanne had not that beauty and those winning manners that endeared Queen Marguerite to all around her. Her early education, too, was unfavourable ; by the co mmand of her uncle, Francis 1., she was brought up alone in the gloomy castle of Plessis-les-Tours. King Francis, who always regarded his brother-in law, Henry of Navarre, with jealousy and sus picion, feared that he intended to bestow his daughter's hand on Prince Philip of Spain. Sor row, deceit, and rebellion darkened the life of Queen Jeanne. She met with neglect and insults from the court over which her mother reigned pre eminent, her husband neglected and deserted her, and the unhappy religious disputes of the period sowed dissension among her subjects. Her unfail ing energy, great penetration, and undeviating rec titude of purpose, upheld her through all the snares and misfortunes which lay in her path, and hough her zeal and warmth of temper led her to indiscreet or extreme acts, still in that age of bigotry, perse cution, and intolerance, Queen Jeanne appears a bright exception. She was possessed of great de termination of character, which manifested itself at a very early age. King Francis had resolved that she should marry the Duke of Cleves, the brother of Henry the Eighth's fourth queen. To this marriage the Princess Jeanne strongly objected, and findin g h er en t rea ti es o f no ava il she took the in the extraordinary m easure o f drawing up the presen ce o f some o f h er household, both on a protes the day of her b e t ro th a l an d o f the marriagethree ceremony, which was aft erwar d s performed, though Prin cess remained under the care of herother._ When it is considered that the Princes s ha d only com pleted her twelfth year this determination must b e regarded as singular,although had the secret approbation of her father. K: it is supposed s h e l t Francis remained unmoved un e D nice of Cleves, alarmed by the presence ti of h the Spanish army, made submission to the Emperor, which so a ffronted the French sovereign that he took his niece's protests into consideration, and obtained a dispensation annulling the marriage. Jeanne, however, does not appear to have chosen very wisely for herself, for Antoine de Bourbon, Duke d e Vendome, was a consort quite unworthy of her. She survived him ten years, the most eventful of her lifer as sole ruler of Beam and its adjacent Provinces, and guardian of her son, the great Henri Quatre. She was the ruling spirit of the Huguenots, their wisest counsellor, and in the hour of defeat and despondency she was the one to rally and en courage them. Aided by great natural acuteness and a love of truth, which enabled her to detect its counterfeit, she alone, of all the Huguenot leaders, put no faith in the treacherous over tures of the Court. Catherine de Medicis was her inveterate enemy. 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S.Vorksii.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar., 5 p c. IDo. do. do i Stock. & Hartl. g. p. c. till July 1,'56 !W Acrid. & Kilk. 6 p el TO TEIE iLDITOR OF THE BUN. SIR,—An imperfect version of the evidence alleged to have been given by me, before the clininittee of investi gation of the Eastern Counties Railway, having been published, I am compelled to trouble you with the real facts of the case. I was appointed by Mr. R. Stephenson (the referee be tween the Eastern Counties Railway Company and Mr. J. V. Gm.ch) to examine and wake myself thoroughly acquainted with the state of the rolling stock of the lines, in order to its being maintained in a state of efficiency during the term of Mr. Gooch's contract. I was there fore requested to attend upon the committee on the 29th October, and to afford them all the information in my power. This I did in an interview lasting one hour and three-qulrters, when subjects of great interest and importance were discussed. I was surprised that a short hand writer was not employed, but that notes of my evidence were made by or under the dictation of the chairman, and these not, in all cases, in accordance with my replies, besides omitting much which, in my opinion, was essential to elucidating the truth. I therefore applied for a copy of the notes taken, in order to their being corrected ; my request wa-, how ever, refused, and when I wrote on the following day to the committee the letter (copy of which is enclosed), "offering to revise the notes," and thus to " furnish full and accurate information " as " my evidence was so imperfectly recorded as to bo liable to mislead any who might read it," the only reply I received was that the committ ee " cons id ere d th e ev idence so little i,mportant," that. they would either "send it for re vision," or, " what appeared to them preferable, ex punge it altogether," and stating that my evidence had, at my request, been read over to me before I left the room, and that I approved it. To this my reply was, "that the committee were at liberty to decide whether my evidence should be expunged, but I denied that the notes bad been approved by me." The evidence was . not sent for cor rec ti on ; b u t t o my surprise is pub. lished in the incomplete form objected to by me as cal culated to mislead and to produce a false impression. Now, as the trustworthy character of the report mast mainly depend upon the truthfulness and completeness of the minutes of evidence, if the statements of other witnesses have been treated as mine were, and appear in as incomplete and distorted a form, the report cannot be worthy of much credence, or be of any value to the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Rail way. —I am, & e ., GEORGE BERKLEY. Enclosed are copies of the correspondence. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, Dec. 6th, 1855. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, 30th October, 1855. SIR, —Referring to what took place at the Committee of Investigation yeqtarday, I beg again to offer to revise the notes you made of what I said, and thus to furnish you full and accurate information, as I am sure that my evidence i■ so imperfectly recorded as to be liable to mis lead any who may read that part of it which you noted. I must respectfully express my surprise that a short-hand writer is not employed, as then you would be able to record what was really said, instead of your own version of it.—Your obedient servant, (Signed) GEORGE BERKLEY. Horatio Love, Esq. Eastern Counties Railway, Bishopsgate-street, Committee of Investigation, 31st Oct., 1855. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 30th inst., the committee beg to observe that they consider your evi• deuce so little important that they will, as you may determine, either send it for yourirevision, or, what ap pears to them preferable, expunge it altogether. The other portions of your letter, and its suggestions, the committee corsider deserving no further notice. You ought to have recollected that, at your own request, your evidence was read over to you before you left the room, and that you approved the same.--I am, sir, your obedient servant, (Si g ned) HORATIO LOVE, Chairman. George Berkley, Esq. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, let November, 1855. SIR,—It is for the committee to determine whether the information I was enabled, by a careful and impar tial examination during several months of the stock management and accounts of the loco mo ti ve d epartment of the Eastern Counties Railway, to give them, is, in their opinion, of sufficient importance to be stated fully and accurately, or whether it should be expunged altogether. I do not recollect, nor is it the fact, that I requested my 4, ev id ence " to be read over to me, nor that I ap proved it as a faithful record of all I bad said ; bat, on the contrary, I do remember that I requested that I might have a copy of the notes you had ma d e f or revi sion.—Your obedient servant, (Signed) GEORGE BERKLEY. Horatio Love, Esq. LITERATURE. Lilliesleaf. By the Author of " Margaret Mait land," &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work, we are informed at the commence ment, is a concluding series to the " Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside," which some time ago appeared. The numerous readers who admired and appreciated that excel lent production will be gratified to renew their in tercourse with so pleasing a circle as the one which is there met with; while those unacquainted with the previous story will find no difficulty in enter ing at once into the interest and being acquainted in the details. In thi s p ar ti cu l ar th e p l o t i s ex ceedingly well arranged, the authoress having con nected the links of the two narratives so that they might be read as one, while at the same time this second division could be perused per se, without diminution to its comprehensiveness or effect. The change we mark is the natural one, to be expected no less from the lapse of time than from the effects of circumstances. The characters have not altered fn themselves, but the great difference of the posi tions in which they are placed calls forth other qualities and developes hidden traits. Mary, the daughter of the Manse, the niece of Mrs. Margaret, is the most interesting of the group. The trials and doubts that she encountered in youth were nothing to the cares and troubles that are here chronicled. Grace, on the contrary, was almost entirely sheltered from the storms that lowered over the dwelling of her early friend. Allan Elphin stone of Lilliesleaf, who was the husband of Mary, was not to be compared to Claud Maitland, who married Grace. Allan was possessed of a restless spirit, and, with a good disposition and excellent intentions, he wanted stability and was deficient in self-control. There could not have been more try ing deficiencies to one who, like Mary, had been bred up all her life in strict rule and principles— who had the highest motives for exertion, and the purest pleasure is their fulfilment. There was more of romance in the circumstances of Grace and her young sister Rhoda, but the interest is attracted to Mary; she is the centre to which the thoughts turn and the object on which the attention fixes. No one can fail to be concerned in her behalf. She appears so true to herself and to her family—teo generous to allow to any one that it is her husband who is in fault, while at the same time she will not deny her own convictions, nor sacrifice her principles of right to present convenience. She might have joined Allan, and left behind her the plans of her young days, or she might have set herself up as an isolated instance of virtue beside her husband and his giddy set. But she contrived to effect the change by adopting neither course. Mary had early learnt not to be conformed to the world ; but the work of her maturity was to in duce her husband to fulfil the harder task of being transformed from the world, in which he took no real interest, nor derived any substantial enjoy ment. Not that she desired him to stay at home. The possessor of large estates had many public duties to perform, and must necessarily mix much in society ; but then May desired that he should aspire to an exalted standard, and be intimate with the noble in spirit, the upright in conduct, and the superior in intellect. Allan had chosen the most frivolous of the differing grades of society, and it was not in such an atmosphere that his cha racter could derive vigour, or his good feelings and impulses have scope for advance or development. Grace's trials were totally different, but during the comparatively brief period of their duration they were severe. Her father was a most unfeeling and unprincipled man, and could not but be con trary to Grace in all his undertakings. Not con tent with trying to rob her of her mother's pro perty, he was constantly importuning her for money, ►nd at last insisted on leaving in Grace's care her step-sister Rhoda. Grace would willingly have re fused, but she knew not how to reconcile to herself leaving the young girl to the care of such a man, while in her quiet home she might learn right, or would be sheltered from wrong at least. Rhoda came, and very little peace was there for a time at Oakenshaw. She would not be satisfied, and, with her vagaries and impatience, she ren lered every one as unsettled and un- Jurpose-like as herself. It was some time ,efore the benign influence of Aunt Margaret oould at all calm or pacify this unruly guest, but after a little while her gentle but firm manner had some effect. Rhoda is what a passionate affec , -ionate disposition may be imagined to be ; with no one to direct her or gain any of her confidence from attachment she suffered greatly. Yet with .$.ll the better nature shining through the clouds of ter errors, she does not attach or interest like Grace or Mary. It is to be questioned if any of ~ he characters possess the genuine simplicity and oarnest devotion of the narrator of the passages 'sere described. In her calm retirement years passed by Margaret Maitland without working my of those deadly changes, or exerting any of those baneful influences, which those experience who are engaged in the turmoil of the world, or nixed up with the hardening cares of social exis tence. There appears truth in the remark she made at the conclusion, that "it takes the like of In 0, a single gentlewoman, unacquainted with fash aid trouble, to carry pure to the end of mortal lays the first grand thoughts of youth." It might lie declared with appropriateness of the declining years of such an existence— " Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age, serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall light thee to the grave." There is a pleasure to be derived from the perusal of works like the one before us that the most bril- liant compositions may not always afford, and an advantage to be gained that mere power of language, or graces of expression, may not possess. We feel that what passes before us is natural, that the real and likely are described in life, both in thought and action. In the details of the simplest occurrences in the home life of Grace or May there is truth, and that is so well depicted in all the various phases of their careers that the impression is vivid and the realisa tion complete. Whether it be a solemn warning or a simple lesson to be conveyed there is no disguise or mystery ; we " learn from the wisdom of age, and are cheered by the sallies of youth." There is )t the same grandeur that characterises "Adam Gnome of Mossgrey" to be recognised in these pages, nor are they endued with the same attract ing interest that so enthrals the attention of the reader of " Harry Muir." Many may prefer the •irst portion of the story, when Grace and May appeared in their spring of youth, to the latter days of the strife and struggles of maturity ; but for all these objections or counter-attractions there is an undeniable merit apparent in " ',liliesleaf," and a charm in the conclusion of a noble life, that awakens sympathy and engages admiration. The pure in purpose, the lofty in thought, the glorious in ion, are the themes here descanted upon, and the deeds here wrought. The lover of simple narrative will be pleased by the conciseness of the plot, and the few characters met with, while the thinker will acknowledge the influence of those better feelings, those mighty aspirations, that give principle to be the guide of motives, and inspire the spirit of self sacrifice and devotion. We are shown in their native energy and intrinsic strength those bright and enduring qualities and attributes which ap proach the most nearly to the standard of excel lence, and adorn and elevate the mean and simple of human. existence. ifen and Women. By Robert Browning. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall. Fifty portraits of men and women, lightly sketched off in profile by the cunning hand of the author of " Paracelsus.' Blooming with youth, wrinkled with age, ugly as sin, beautiful as virtue, gentle and simple, matron and maiden, bearded veteran and smooth•faced stripling—here they se verally are, one and all pencilled delicately in pen-and-ink miniatures, kit-cat, full-length, sit ting, standing, some of them, indeed, literally speaking likenesses. It is by a happy thought that Mr. Browning has thus strung together as in a motley coronal fugitive pieces, as varied in sparkle, and colour, and value, as would be a circlet formed of gold, and lead, and silver, and tinfoil, and peb bles, and pearls, and bits of coloured glass—beryl, and flint, and topaz, and clay, and malachite. For the several fragments making up the whole of this strange poetic chaplet are no less singularly contrasted with each other than materials thus respectively, as the case may chance to be, most precious or most worthless. It is as if we had had poured into our hands the unsifted produce of some rich digging newly discovered and hastily worked upon the auriferous banks of the grand old Pac tolus—an occasional nugget of rare size and purity glittering out among a predominating mass of commonest sand and rubble. Mr. Browning comes anew before his readers with this advantage—that it is now some time since the issue of his last me trical production. He has this no less obvi ous disadvantage, however that that last effusion of his was an egregious failure to all intents and purposes. We speak, of course, in allusion to his scarcely comprehensible and decidedly repulsive poem entitled "Christmas Eve and Easter Day"—a poem wholly unadorned by a single beauty, save in the instance of one solitary couplet where the fountains in the Piazza of St. Peter's, at Rome, were exquisitely described as— " Growing up eternally Each like a musical water-tree !" Disappointed, however, in the instance of this latest outpouring of our author's thoughts in ver- 5.13 an all 68 7i. 81 57i 81 31i i 241 0 7i i i 113 115 lived," says the writer, " her political sagacity saved the leaders of the Huguenot party from the snare subsequently laid for them by Catherine de Medicis. Had she lived no such fatal slaughter would, in all probability, have stained the annals of French history." She always prevented the simultaneous presence of the Huguenot chieftains and their followers in Paris. her penetration saw that it might be turned to their ruin, as was sub sequently the case, when King Charles, exasperated by his mother's hints and the threats of the Hu guenots on the attempted assassination of Coligny, was persuaded that they intended some hostile demonstration in the streets of his capital. The authoress has executed her task with ability and success, and with a moderation and impartiality which aro especially to be commended. These qualities, which are most valuable in an historical writer, are more precious as well as more rare in writing of such an age as that of Jeanne d'Albret, when the bitterness and violence of religious in tolerance was at its height. The style is clear and concise, as in the preceding work, without being dry or uninteresting. Considering the great diffi culty of the task she has undertaken to a compa ratively inexperienced writer, the number of moving characters, the vast importance of the po• litical events, and the fact of its being, though a distant era, one so conspicuous in the history of nations that its chief features are known to most readers, the authoress may be congratulated on the successful result of her researches. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Mr. Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF ALEXANDER AVGEACHY ALLRTNE V. COTLE.—NEW TRIAL. This was an indictment for perjury, arising out of a late prosecution and conviction for conspiracy against the Alleynes and D'Arcy, to defraud Capt. Kennedy of 7,3001. That an American mare belonging to Holder Alleyne, known as " Fanny Jeuks," but named by him " Pigeon," would trot a certain number of miles within a given time, but that the mare becoming lame, and consequently uriabl • ^ trot the match, Cap tain Kennedy was indut vr the false pretences of Alexander MeGeachy tie, at the instance of his brother, to pay over the -hole amount of the wager to Holder Alleyne. The two ..' 'leynes and D'Arcy were tried in December, 1851, befinre •.• • Campbell and a special Middlesex jury, and founa guilty, and sentenced Alexander M'Geaohy Alleyne to six months', Holder Alleyne to 12 months', and D'Arcy to two years' imprisonment in the Middlesex House of Correction. D'Arcy had since died. The Alleynes afterwards brought a writ of error to set aside the sen tence, and their being no joinder to the writ it was allowed, and it was subsequently set aside on the ground of collusion. The Alleynes afterwards indicted Captain Kennedy, Mr. Newton, his solicitor, and the defendant Coyle, for conspiracy to defraud them of 5,500/. ; indicting the latter separately for perjury, which last charge was tried in February last before Lord Campbell. The defendant was found guilty, and sentenced by his lordship to two years' imprisonment in the Middlesex House of Correction, and in consequence of that conviction tLe Alleynes were pardoned. At the following term the defendant applied to set aside the verdict, on the ground of the absence of a material wit ness, which was granted, and the case came on to-day for re-hearing. The Attorney-General, Mr. Kemp, Q.C., and Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant. The alleged perjury, on the part of the defendant, was his swearing that Al exan d er M'Geacby Alleyne was present at a conversation between Coyle and Holder Alleyne, at the Plough Hotel, Cheltenham. The trial, in all probability, will occupy the whole of to-day and a portion of to-morrow, when we shall pub. lish an outline of the evidence and the result. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Tins Day.) THAMES. ROBBERY OF LEAD BY A WORKMAN.— Trillium Young, a journeyman bricklayer, in the employ of Mr. James Thomas Heather, builder, of Brown's-lane, Spitalfields, was brought before Mr. Ingham charged with stealing 25 lbs. of lead, the property of his employer. Police-constable George Winder, No. 38 K, stated that he saw the prisoner in a marine store-shop in Pop lar, New Town, last night. There was a quantity of lead in a scale, and the shopkeeper was weighing it, and about to pay for it, when witness stepped in and stopped the transaction, and took the prisoner into custody. He 'mid his name was Dickenson, and that he was a brick layer, and that the landlord of the Wellington knew him well He went to the Wellington in Canning-town, and saw the landlord, who said tip. prisoner's name was Young. Mr. Heather, the pri-oner's toaster, was in the put,l:c•house attending a net ting, and said that the lead was his property. Mr. fleattit-r, the prisoner's master, said the lead was eta e from a building• in the coarse of erection in Can ning -town, near the Barking-road railway station. He last saw the lead ,ix weeks a;10. The prisoner, in defence, said his master gave him the :ead for some extra services performed by him. Mr. Heather der.ie i that he gave the prisoner the lea i, but the latter p rsisting in the assertion, and that he could bring a witness tl prove the truth of his de fence, the magistrate remanded him until to-morrow, and directed the police-constable who had charge of the ease t ) direct the witness mentioned by the prisoner to attend the Court to-morrow. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGt. GENET:AL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII CORN For the week ended Dec. 6, 1855, made up from the Returns of tb e Inspectors in the di tTereat Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WIIEAT. BARLEY. OATS. ATE. I BEANS. PEAS. 83t Id 42i 31 28s iOl 53s Od 53s 31 I 82s f d TIIE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE, WIIEAT. BARLEY. OATS. \ RIR t BEANS. k ?EAR. 80s 101 40s 01 28s 41 , 52s Od , 51s Ild 516 QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEER, Wheat, 117,405; Barley, 119,076 ; Oats, 20558 ; Rye, 295 ; Beans, 5,156; Peas, 3,055 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—We had a moderate demand to-day, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6(1; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 6 l ; Veal, 3s 10,1 to 4s 10t1; Pork, 3s 6d to 58 2(1 per Sibs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Dec. s.—The supplies of stook on sale in to day's market were seasonably good, and the trade ruled heavy, as follows :—Beef. from 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 0(1 ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10i; Pcrk, 3s 6d to 4s UM per Slbs, to sink the offal. RONFORD, Dec. s.—Sheep were very dull and rather cheaper. Other kinds of stock were firm. Beef, from 38 6tl to as Od ; Mutton, 3s 61 to 5s Od ; Veal, 3e 10(1 to 5a ; Pork, 3e 6d to 4s 10.1 per Slbs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 22s to 28s each. HAY MARKETS. SmrrarinD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s Co 6/ Oa ; clover ditto, 41 159 to 71 Os ; and straw, It 49 Od to 1/ Ds Od per loscL Trade firm. CUKBERLAND.—MenrcIow hay, 41 Ss to 61 6s; elovez do., 4' 15s to 7/ Os : and straw. 11 59 to 11 10s per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. WMTECHAPn.—ltsaklow hay, 4/ fps to 61 03; 010•13? do.. 4' 10s to 71 7s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 13 Os per load. Supply rather limited. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) • '.oivnoN, Dec. s.—Wind this clay at noon, W. ; fresh breeze and find. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. s.—Arrived —Abigail, from Que bec. Sailed—Sydney (s. tnt.), for Deptford; H.M.S. Meander, for the Downs. COWES, Dcc. 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrived -Louise, from Callao, and sailed for A ntwerp ; COMOto Rio Janeiro. S,VOTHAMPTON, Dec. s.—Wind N.—Siled— Hermann (s.), for New York. Sailed—Petrel, t 1 P DAR rmouTs, Dec. sN thes._s.—.‘virvWfnidndNN.w.—.....oAffrtrhiveedpirot—wPailz fnriocim3il7lL;offniTily,,dfpnoerey;. . Swan River. ere , for Ne M sv ir ,O Fr o l enro, a n s , Dec. s.—The Canielion, from Amsterdam to with damage, and baring of the crew of rho Dutch soLhniivpbeeErilt)croiolt:h e p fr u mo t ma i t n eA y aln e i siteesrer, seven t e L a y nm , to Liverpool, with which vessel she had been in contact, Island. The latter was Oth Nov., off Ban - key not seen afterwards, and, from the report of the mate must have sunk. (PEB, ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived —Despatch (s.), from Jersey; Neptune, Swan. sea ; Caroline, Yough'al ; Gleaner, Tralee. Sailed—Alderman for Cardiff ; Wonder, (s.), Jersey Alli ance, (8.), Havre P ; Henry Duncan, Poole. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.N.W. Arrived—Gazetteer, from New York. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. G. ind N.W. Arrived.—Stefano, from Syra; Bianco, Leghorn; Abeoaa and Emily, Syra. Off.—Spy, from Monte Video. Sailed. Jessie, for Barbados. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM ) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.15 a.m. Wind W.N.W. ; tide five hours' flood ; weather strong and cloudy, Arrived Doe. sth.—Mystery, from Smyrna : Patriot, Deuia ; Dublin Lass, Guernsey; Talbot, Mogador ; Me. lona, Guernsey ; Dispatch, 17ddewalla ; Forrest, Dantsic. Arrived Dec. 6th.—Johns, from Seville ; Catharine, Mogador ; Calder, Demerara; Bee, NieuPort ; G era ldi ne, Guernsey. Sailed. —Santiago, for La Guayra ; As cendant _ 'a", ailin. ritius. DEAL, Thtmsday, 10 sass. from Chi'. Anc h o red. —Eagle , from Chinca3 ; Bo r l an d B r i g , West ward ; Stamboul, Callao. W ras in se d d N in .W tow.,,t uenger, s, Passed. --Tier Majesty's steam-ship Inflexible, from P or tsmouth, for Woolwich ; R o y a l Vi c t or i a , Ha, for Charleston; Caroline, London, for Cardiff. THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.--Evening meeting, Monday, the 10th December, half-past eight o'clock. Papers to be read : —l. Notes on the geo graphy of Central Africa, from the late researches of Livingston Monteiro Garcia, and other authorities, by James Macqu een , Erq., F.R.G.S. 2. Geographica„l motes on Si am , w i t h a new ma p on th e lowerplvt of . bM Menam River, by Harry Parket, Esq., 1 1,14. . 4 ° 100 100 100 20 20 1.0 3i 100 1 100 a 16 21 FOR: lli i 3 i & 60}