The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

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Ey .;CTISiO7 I all Do. 4 p. c. Rds., pa' '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 17. Gd. Tk of Cana , laik it; all Do. - St. Lawrence A 2 Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till's 3 all Do. Comp. 6D. c., do 10 Gt. CeLtral of Fran • all Gt Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. New 5 per cent 2 Do. Extensions.... all Do. C, •• 13 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations all Gt.WesternofCe.nad Shares all Do. Bds., payablo's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62, p. '56... all Do. do., '76, p. '60... all Dc... do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 por cent. 14 Lake Collet. & Basle all Lucca dt Pistoja 5 p.c pref 10 Lyons and Genova 14 Lyons' Blediterran. all Madras 10 Do. New 31 31i' Maria Antonia 1.11 Do. do. Now all Namur & Liege /with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D o .201. Sha.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. C. & red. at 22i/. char. S 8 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 201.3 p. c Bde (fnay.B.&Ams.Shs. all NorwegianTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen... 16 ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre all Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse._ .0 all Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. 2s. Scindo all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A). 0.1 West Flanders Li Do 5A per c. Pref IS Western of France M 1 WCs:. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden all Zealand .. HARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) JOINT-ST r 411 4 BANKS 91. 93 68 70 d par i.l idie l 55 - 57 p 17 174 19 - 20 d - Id 33 40 ••• .. • 111 -- ... •on ".". • • 35 = 42 - 43 52 - 54 e. -- ••• ••• 40 41 70 - 72 8 - 9 eft la no all _al] 100 r, A 3B - oi ; 0 1 all I_R2s. In I t; ; . 1 . 1 all a 20 all ll 40 5 24, ~, an 26 10 ko 100 1( 1( 20 100 20 ' 20 20 all .knstraiar•,ia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 50 all critisb N. American 25 5 Chart& Bank of Asia 20 4 Chrtd. Brk. of India, Australia, & China .00 30 City Colonial ) Commercial of Lond I English Scottish and, Australian Chart Loud. Chart. Bk• of kustralis 20 5 'AU° New 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joiut Stock 100 20 Lond. & Westminster 100 35 National Provnacia! of England D Do. Now National of Ireland ll New South Walea [1 Oriental Bank of Corporation. 5 erovineial of Ireland 11 Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. Gold Imp Co 11 south Australia .11 Union of Australia 4 Do. New oiiita of Load 100 12! 10 a] 25 I al 25 al 1( 1( 10t. 20 20 50 20 25 3 , ,situm: dont - St. this day. 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Bxtu. • and Matlock all & Redcar 1 1 0 Midld.Bradid 54 Newmarket Bury Paten.. all NA at.s p.c. all Do. 6 'cr ct. all Do. Fix, 'Sp* all Prost. & V ;:c all Do. Shrs. A ;,() Itoystn.&Hit. l 8 Shef.Roth.and Gool g. 5 p.c. all Shrews.&Her 4 S. Staflordsh, all WearValleygr 6 per cent... all ilD w o ntoz QQ rtomrst :Stiff ~l:+.' tg,ndon N. vJo a, L. &N. W. Cal 0n... E. Un. Nrtt,.. 'aldonian. Do Ch. fres Yll. lie, S&. er% Y. & N M Do. S. Easter Peto & Co 'Norfolk Do LSE ' li. &:. N. V,' Et Midld, tezton h Darliugt, . idland. , En. Coun. E. Count, Do. ....... . L. &Ln&Yk Do .GitNorthe Laneash & yorksh. T. Brassey 'M.MClean .Stockt. & Darlingt Do I(4tWestn. PREFERENO. 1 100 f Aberdeen IDo. N 0.2, 7 p. c... . _ . . .tlythandTyne lOpei c. pref. (issd. 501 100 iris. & Ex. 4p.c. Si I ; Do. 4 p. c. Shares 1410 'aledonian .£lO al! 'hestor & 110171 - ten• luar. 5; per cent 4). do. Pref. No. 2.. all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all flork drEandonsl , . , ail Dun„Prth etr A I 'er.J. 2 Anglian Cl s. A Sl 101) Do. do. Cls. B6p. c. 100 Do. do Cls. C7p. c. all lastern Counties Ex t , tnsion,s p. c. No. all 1)o. No. 2 . St. 20 St. 15 St. al. bo. New 6r. c. al fast Un., G. 6p. e ali )o. 51., 10 per cent al )o. 10/. Dcbentr.Sl•. all no. do. 4 per cent... s,nst --- 11.ancas14.1 3 p.ets all T. &.W. York. J. sths 100 !4141 Pith. St,Dun.4 p... 1 ' all Furne,s :0 St. '2O 50 11 --- - :10.s. &S. W.G.5 p.e 400 1 :Teat Northn. 5 p. e 100 ' o. sp. c. Redeem 92 - 94 - 101 15i - 4 - 6 62 1 . 12 115 • at 10 p. c. prem. 'l(►ti ' 7?,. Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. 107 - 109 100 102 tsp.c.pm... all Qt. N. of Scot. let Pro 100 e S. (Ireland) 9 Do. 4per C. Pr:f. R Gt. Westu. (Barks giants Ex. 5 p. c).. 100 Do . con. red. 44 p.c. 1100 Do. con. red. 4p. c 1100 Do. irred. 4p.c, B --p 6 6A 95 97 80 85 t 25 87 9i 104- 16 —16 i 10 lq 69 71 18} —19 A 91 9 i 14 14 d 136 138 all Do. firm. Pref. Sh Do. C nester p. all Do. do. 5 p. c. 1 , 14 Do. Birin. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. & York. F. I:2' 1000 Do. 6p. c. 100 hon. & Brigh. G. 5 p. e . 10 Do. Prof., sp. c. St. 1') D o . Now Guar.6 p. c. 1100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. Nuneaton 5 p. ct 5 Lon. &S. W. Con. 3d, all Londy. & Color. # Sh. -Al Londy. & Enn is. AS' all 'lan., Sher., & Lin, Now, £10............ 4i Do. £6 all Aarypt .8t Carl. 4 p all r)u. 4.i per cent ~. --- *. • ~P '"" . 50 12! 10 121 - 1.3 - 10A Do _ 100 - Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Cousol. Bristol I v Rirm. 6 per cent 1 100 o. 4i p. c. Pref. St 1D so. Pref. 4 ) ; per cep ' all Do. 51. Pref. 4p. c 100 Ditto Leicester an(' Hitelien Pref. St. all 'lorfolk Debenture 100 Do. Pref. 4p. C. St' r ' 10 Do 5 p.c. Est 100 )0 5A per et. prof.. 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p e 100 gortirßritish 100 4. E. Perw, 4 p.c P 5 Do. do. do 13 1.)o Leeds 6 p.c '.No. I 9 Do. do. Quarters 4 10 '.lo, York vi &', P , r all Vorth Staffordshir , 100 ' )xford , Worcester, , Thiverb..£ls, fip - 7 Do R. Pref. 10Z. Sh. all Scot. Cent. ,New Pr-. xll South Devon ii Do. fixed,4 i per cen , all S. Eastern (Readi , Nnn.) of £1 Os. 6,1, 10t, Do. ‘q per cent.... 1 all S Wales Gua. 4p. c. all Do. do. 41 p. c.... all S. Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. ~, all Stock. & Dar, ,5p c. JS 15 'Do. do. do IV : all Stock. & t 1 artl. g. F p. c. till July 1, 'se s'o 4;W rterfd.. Br, Killc .6 p e St. 16- 5 St. 35 - 137 97 -9;) 4 - 41 10 !H I 1 : 0 t.O ••. 97 - 99 90 - 92 31 - q : id 1121 .0. ... ''. 101 - 103 i dis 13 -14 i - par •,31 23i 99 - 101 ... ""' •• 1"4 - '3 -- iid HINES. 1 all Agns ena ... ...... i .. 6 1 dl Anglo Austria. Gob .. ~. .. 10s. .3.1 Anglo Californian .. A _ $ ?,6 6 Austrulia.n i - 1 1 all Australian Cordaler ... - .. 1 all Ave Maria. - 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of 4 SO all Rlamarvou Iron and Coal ... . 65 - 74 20 14 ' British Iron l5 - N. 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issmy i at £5 pro-) - 3 2B 30 all Do. Comes At Culnl , 34 31 20 15 Do, St. Johr Wile: 26 -2 3 1 :4 CArsou's (sek .. - ••• 1 ; Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica it - #P 10 all Cobra Copper 63 - 67 67 5 1 Colonial Gold 4 $ . St. all Copper Min. of Dir 33 ...-. 3G 25 all Do. Prof. 75 p. con' 25 - 27 26 ... IC Copiapo. • lB - 20 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg Ci• .„ - •.• 2 1 Fortuna i -§P 20 all I General l3 -15 1 all Gt.Nugg otlr•Anß,og. . 4 - 4 44 all Great Polgooth 24 - 3 1 all Liberty 4 - A 3 all Linares. 7l - Si ... all 'Do. B .. 2 1 - 3ip 5 1 Lusitanian 1 -14 i, 24 1 all Mariquita 4 - i 1 all Now Granada a - I 1 all Now Linares Mining: and Smelting Co ... - ... 1 all Nouveau Monde 4 4 20 all Pontgiband Silve3 Load Min. & Smelt.' 15 - 16 5 1 Port Philip 5 - 4 1 all Quartz Rock i - 50 all Rhyroney Iron 2l - 23 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 30 121 Santiago de Cuba 4 - 44 1 all i South Australian 1 - 41 i 10 74 Tin Croft,., .. 3I - 7 Si 28+ all United Mexican . 3 - 31 1 all Waller i - 4 1 all West Mariposa i I 1 il2s. Worthing Mining of Australia .l. - ... 1 I all Tuba.. . 1 ... - ... - --......... MISO ELL/IN SO lETB. 25 17} Australian Agrinit 29 - 30 130 1P Al Auslraln. Royal Mail .. - ... Iv 7 Berlin Water Works 2 - 15 d 50 10 Brit. American Land ... - ... 5 1 Brit. do Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.- ... - .- 100 32 Can a d a 178 - 182 3t 100 Canada Gov, 6p. ct Jan. ana Jaly 1125 - 1134 5 all Crystal Palace.., 2i - 23 21 5 5 Do. Preference 5 - 51 4 all Crystal Pal, of France .. --- ... 1 4 Dnston Iron Ore ... - ••• 20 11 Eastern Steam. 25 23 Electric Telegraph l7 - 18 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir ... - ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... - .„, 18 all General Screw Steam .., - ~' .0 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... - . .. 20 10 Magdalena St. Navin 10 all Mediteran. Eloc. Tel. 8 - I 6 1.0 9. Mexican&S.Americn 6 - 64 10 25 Do. New 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... _ W 5 Netherlands Land 1 - l ' i 2 1 N. S. W. Coal ei Inter Stoam Navigat. Co ... - , 1 all N. D Australasian._ 4 - i 20 15 Nrth. of Europe Steam ... - .., 1 all Oriental Gas 1 - 11 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl 2l - 28 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... - ~, 50 10 Do. New - ••• 2 all Portland Iron Co l4 - 11 100 60 Royal Mail Steam - ... . 1 all Scot. Mistral. Invest l4 - 11 1 4 Ditto New 4 - 0 15 all South Austral.lan - 1 355 - 364 1 alI Submar. Tel. Scrip - 4 1 all De. Roistered - 4 5 - Trust& L.Co.U.Csn. .. .... ~ OC I -' , 64 Van, Diemou'e LW 14 - 15 • TE-HS DAY'S NIE.Mrs NEWMARKET RAC ER (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAI MATCH. Plenty filly beat Tyre. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Anglo-Saxon Persia Five ran. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCH 25 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken freely).. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS! D-4 Y.) GUILDHALL. CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A CITY MI tRcHANT.-- James Burney, a bankrupt, described as a va rehouse man, of Addle-street, City, was brought up in the cus tody of Spackman, one of the City detectives, charged under the Bankrupt Act with improperly disposing of his property within three months of his bankrupt cy. Mr. Turner appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Parry for the prisoner. Mr. Turner said the prisoner was a warehouseman, and had carried on business in Addle-street for about 12 months, in which time be had incurred debts to between 9,0001. and 10,000 i. Since the prisoner's bankruptcy the assignees had ascertained, from an examination of the prisoner and his books, that he had pledged, or unlaw fully disposed, or sold goods to the amount of 3,000/. within the three months preceding the date of the a dju dication in bankruptcy. The sales complained of had been effected at less than the cash price of the articles dis posed of, and the circumstances attending the transac tions were such as would bring them within the 2630th section of the Bankruptcy Laws Consolidated Ac c. Evidence was given to show the date of the adjudica tion was the 6th of August, 1853, and the prisoner's examination at the Bankruptcy Court, on the 6th Sept., was read, which stated that on the 'l2th Juiy he sold for 121. 16s. id., to Mr. Russell, pawnbroker, goods re ceived of Messrs. Taylor and Robinson, one of his cred i tore. Mr. Hugh M'Gregor, agent of Messrs. Taylor and Robinson, who, carry on business near Huddersfield, proved that on the Ist July the prisoner purchased of him woollen goods to the amount of 181. 195., which have not been paid for. Mr. Turner asked for a remand to enable him to pro duce further evidence in support of the charge. Mr. Parry said that as the case must ultimately go before another tribunal, he should not object to that course. The prisoner was tlwn remanded till Tuesday next. Bail would be accepted, the prisoner in 500/., and two sureties in 2501. each. 56i 1 ri I 20 dis 12 24 1004 35 4 i uster 92 -- 06 100 - 102 ... - 27 29 105 - 107 12 - 13 23 - `.)4 110 - 115 ~. '"'"' ••• ~. -- 2a 21 :g:o t 2 iP F 6 68 fio ilii - 2f - 2io ••• - 306 - 314 90 - 92 SHARES. 12t -13 i • 44 ...- •• THE SUN, LONDON., TUESDAY .EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25 1855 this .I*- BOW.STREET. ROBBERY OF 100/.—This morning Frederick: Ralph Barrell was placed at the bar for final examination, charged with stealing the sum of one hundred pounds, the property of his employers, Messrs. Woodhead, of James-street, Adelphi, navy agents, by falsely entering a cheque for 1971. 19s. as only drawn for 971. 195., and embezzling the remainder. In addition to his former evidence, Mr. Young stated it -gas the usual practice of the house to cheque the money transactions of the prisoner. It was made monthly, and the mode was to obtain the cheques from the bank and compare them with the books. One per son called over the amounts, and another examined the books. He (witness) took the cash-book to see that the purchases were all entered. The prisoner took the vouchers, and his clerk took the banker's pass-book. The July accounts were in course of examination when the prisoner absented himself from the office. In calling over the cheque produced for 1971., the clerk called the amount 971. 195., and when that amount was called he made a mark in the cash-book, in order to show that the book was right. He thought the pencil mark on the cheque was made by the prisoner. The prisoner was authorised to till up signed cheque s for any sum which he considered necessary for businr transactions, and which he ought duly to have accour,ted for in his books. In cross examination Mr. Young said he had no, posi tive recollection of any circumstance relative to the cheque in question. William Dennis Townshend was a foreman to 'Smith and Sons, pawnbrokers, 1, Clark's-place, Isli ngton. Knew the prisoner, and had dealings with him as a cus tomer. The six five-pound notes produced he h: td had in his possession on a former occas;on. On the sth of September this year he received the notes from the pri soner in payment for a general account of goods sup plied. Ile was confident the notes were the name as he received from the prisoner, as they each bore his private mark. The notes in question were a portion of those pad by Mr. Stanley, the ca.hier in Coutts' bank, to the prisoner for a cheque of 1971. 19-3. drawn by the firm of Woodhead and Co. Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that if the magistrate thought this case was a felony he should advise him to reserve what he had to say in an. swer to the charge elsewhere. Mr. Jardine said he thought that this case ought to go to a jury, as whatever question there might be in regard to the legal technicalities he had nothing to do with them. He should therefore commit him for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Lewis made an application LI . bail, but it was refused. SOUTHWARK• ALLEGED BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEUALE BY HER HUSBAND.— TVillia7n, Poland, a costermonger, living in Union-street, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with beating his wife over the head and arms with a poker. The complainant, a gin-drinking looking female, but whose upper lip was much swollen and covered with blood, stated that, yestereay afternoon, the prisoner came home, and as soon as he entered the house com menced abu , ing her. He told her that she had made mischief with a young man at the Two Brewers public house in Union-street. She told him it was a falsehood, she had not, when he struck her with his fists. She retarned the blow, when he took up a poker and struck her on the lip, and as he was going to strike her again she put up her left arm to ward off the blow when she received a cut across it. She immediately ran out and informed the police, when she gave him into custody. Mr. Combe—Has he ever beat you before ? Witness—Oh yes, many times. He broke my ribs once, and I was sent to the hospital, but I never came ;0 court before. The prisoner here declared that all his wife had uttered was false. She was a notorious drunkard, and spent all his money in the public-houses, and when he remon strated with her she struck him, and aggravated him to strike her, as she could give him six months. She stabbed him once severely, Mr. Combe—What have you to say to striking her with the poker / Prisoner—l never did so. Look at the poker. Had I struck her with it on the face it must have broke her jaw, or killed her. The constable here produce a poker, which the female said he struck her with across the face. It was a heavy black ene, bent very much, but there was no blood on it. The female's lip was not cut, neither were there any marks such as to show that she had been struck with the poker. Mr. Combo asked the female whether any one saw her husband strike her with the pker / She replied in the negative, as she was in her own house. Mr. Combo asked the police what was known of either of them ? Sergeant Fleming, 459 A, said the man was a hard working man, but spent a deal of money in a public. house, and the female was a drunkard. The prisoner said that was quite true, and as for the marks on her face they were caused by their having a fight, as he was compelled to protect himself. He, however, never used the poker. Mr. Combo said they both appeared a violent pair ; but as it was clear he had used much violence towards her he should adjourn the case for further evidence. THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. - Tam McGuire, a young man who is well•known to the police, was brought before Mr. - I ardley, charged with committing a very daring robbery last evening in Princess-street, S George-in-the-East. Robert Anderson, a searuar, stated that he was lodg ing at No. 1, Princess-street, Ratcliff-highway. Yes terday morning soon after six o'clock he was walking along Princess-street when the prisoner same up to him, made a snatch at his watch-guard and broke the ring. Before he could recover himself the prisoner stole his watch and ran away with it. James Curey, a boy, was talking to the sailor when the robbery was committed. He pursued the prisoner, and saw him throw the watch over a fence in Christian! street, about a varter of a mile from the place where he accosted the pri-ioner. Charles Matthews, a carman, stated that he went over the fence and recovered the watch. The watch was produced and identified. Mr. Yardley asked if the prisoner was known, to which Roche, tho gaoler, replied that he had been in custody before for felony, and he believed was once convicted. Robert Wheeler, a young man formerly in the army, and whose toes were shot off before Sebastopol, said he was present two years ago when the prisoner was con victed and sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner said that Wheeler was a lying vagabond. He had not been convicted before—it was a lie. Mr. Yardley lectured the prisoner on using such dis• graceful language to a man who had served his country, and who was now pensioned for his services. He wished the prisoner was as good a man as the witness. He com mitted the prisoner for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. THE MURDER IN ARTILLERY-LANE. Daniel Lordon, the man charged with wilfully mur dering his wife Catherine Lordon, at 15, Parliament court, Artillery-lane, Eishopsgate•street Without, was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt for further examination. The same excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of the police-court as on the first examination of the prisoner. On the prisoner being placed in the dock some of his children who were in court burst into tears, and had to be removed. The prisoner looked extremely pale and appeared to feel his unfortunate position more acutely than on the former occasion. The depositions taken at the first examination were read over to the prisoner. Mr. Shaw, the surgeon, gave similar testimony to that he gave before tie coroner at the inquest on Wednesday last, and fully reported in The Sun of that day. The prisoner paid particular attention to Mr. Shaw's description how he thought the wounds with the knife must have been inflicted on the deceased ; and in answer to questions from the magistrates, whether he bad any questions to put to the witness, he answered, in a firm voice, "No." _ _ _ John Davies, who resided on the same floor with the deceased and the prisoner, at 15, Parliament court, deposed being disturbed on Tuesday morning last by cries of " Murder " proceedirg from the prisoner's room. He recognised the voice to be that of the deceased. He also heard a wrestling against the door and the prisoner call his wife a "b- bitch," and other epithets of a similar character. He heard the foot steps of a heavy person leave prisoner's room descend as far as the landing. Immediately fresh cries of " Murder," and the person return to the room He got up, and on getting outside his door he saw blood near the prisoner's door, and a slipper in it. He looked into the prisoner's room, but saw nor heard no one there. He then described the appearance of the stairs from blood, and the position in which he found the deceased sitting on the stairs, in nearly the same terms as at the inquest. The prisoner was not a drunken man, but the deceased was much addicted to drinking. By the prisoner—He knew it was prisoner who used the language deposed to from the sound of his voice ; he was in his bi xi at the time, which was about 5 or 6 yards distant_ Prisoner t o the Magistrate—There were no loud words passed between me and my wife. `Witness- —Prisoner and his wife were often quarrelling, and she fre ,quently screamed " Mur,ler,'! Sarah F;lias deposed she resided on the floor below the priso ner. About 2 o'clock on the morning of the 18th she was disturbed by the prisoner, who was quarrelling with hi s wife and a man in the street. She thought de ceaset-1 was in liquor. She heard nothing after that. Beta' teen seven and eight o'clock she saw deceased site ,ng in a crouching posture on the stairs, but did not sP eak to her. Blood was on the landing, near where .eceased was sitting. `Witness had no idea she was dead, but thought her tipsy. It was only when she heard persons in the passage, and saw a policeman and a doctor there, that she knew deceased was dead. By Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you ever see Kingstone with her ?—No. How long have you known her t—Six years, and she was continually tipsy. Is the prisoner a sober man I—He is not altogether a drunken man and was not a sober man. Have you ever heard him express feelings of jealousy I —No. Have you ever heari:him fteeme dceasedjof iefidelity ! —No. Margaret Lor3on, daughter of the prisoner, deponed she was 18 years of age. She went to the Green Dra gon, Half Moon-street, Bishopgate-street, on the night before the murder ; there found her father and mother. A raffle had been got up there for the benefit of her mother. Her father and mother being both out of work. Her mother was sober, but her father bad been drinking. Kingstone was there, and also Daniel Crease, her uncle. Her f ,ther had been put out of the house by her uncle, and abiut half-past 12, when witness, her mother, Kingstone, and her uncle left the house, they saw her father outaitle. Kinghtone took no part against her father in the Green Dragon. He and her father were then on the best of terms. After leaving the Green Dragon, witness and her mother went home, and by the time they bad reached the door Kingstone bad overtaken them. He asked ber and her mother where her father was : her mother re. plied, "Gud knows." Kingstone sent her for a pot of beer, which was drank between them on the door step The public-house being closed she took the pot up stairs and returned to the street door to her mother and King stone. Immediately after her father rushed between them. Kingstone called out "Dan," but he made no answer, and went up stairs. Shortly after something hard was thrown from her father's window, which struck Kin stone. Her mother male a noise, and asked Kingstone to have her father taken into custody, Kingstone asked her father " Why he did not come out like la man, and be would fight him fair." Her father came down stairs, and Kingston went up the court. Kingston said, " Here's the b— vagabond," on which her father struck him with a poker, without making him any answer. A scale ensued between them, and her father was thrown on his back by Kings ton, who, finding he could not get the poker from her father, let him go, and he then got up and went up stairs. Kingston then spoke to a policeman, and asked him to take her father in charge, but he declined to do so. Kingston then said he would go to the police station, and left. She saw no more of him that night. By Mr. D'Eyncourt—ls Kingston a friend of your father's I—Yes. How long have they been acquainted ?—Twenty eight years. They have always been on the best of terms. Have you any reason to believe your father was jealous of Kingstone beside' from what you saw this night ?—I believe there was a little grievance between my father and Kingstone about three months' since, but I was not at home then. After some further evidence, the prisoner was re manded. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SmrrETTlELD.—Meadow hay, 4 1 Os to 6/ Ss ; clover ditto, 51 Os to 61 lOs ; and straw, 1/ 8s Od to 1/ 12s Od per load Supply moderate, and trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 6/ 8s : clove' do., 4 1 15s to 6/ 6s ; and straw. 1/ 10s to 1/ 14s per load. A fair average supply and a steady demand. WAITECRAPEL.—Meadow hay, 4/ OS to 6 6; elovor do., Si Os to 61 103 ; and straw, 11 8s to 1/ 12s per load Trade steady, at full quotations. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been a steady market, but the trade being only for present wants. SUGAR.—There has been more business in foreign for exportation at full rates. Yellow Havana has been at 42s to 435. Colonial is held firmly, and fine sorts are in re quest. Of refined the supply is small, and prices are maintained. COFFEE. —Prices are steady. Good ord Ceylon at 52s 6d, and with a reduced supply. Plantation Ceylon has been in demand, and there is not much on offer. Bra zilian have been at very full rates. Russ. —This article has been firm at advanced rates. Demerara proof is at 2s Ba, with a large business in second parcels. RlCE.—Bengal good mid, from the ship, has been sold at 15s 9d. Arracan on the spot realised 12s 9d to 133, and Bengal 16s to 16s 61 per cwt. SALTPETRE. — Refraction 71 per cent. realised 38s 6d, an d W I per cent. 38s, being rather easier. CLEARANCFS ON THE LtICAN ESTATES.—The auction of some 4,000 of Lord Lucan's sheep flock took place on Saturday last, and every lot was disposed of at rea sonably remunerative prices. The lands heretofore oc cupied by the stock will, as soon as the usual prelimi naries are adjusted, be let out to the farmers of the dig• trice. EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF BUSINESS AT THE POST-OFFICE.—The duty at the Post-office in St. Mar tin's le Grand is daily increasing. Yesterday was the heaviest day ever known in the establishment. A. mail from Australia, in addition to the usual amount of con tinental and provincial correspondence, was brought in, which mail, besides letters, contained 720,000 news papers. The result of this was that the ordinary morn ing despatch was delayed upwards of an hour, and it was some time after that before the sorters could leave tho office. LITERATUR E. 110 N. ROBERT CURZON. Visits to the Monasteries of the Levant. By the Hon. Robert Curzon, junior. Fourth edition. 1851. John Murray. Armenia : A Year at Erzerouni and on the. Fron tiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia. By the Hon. Robert Curzon. 1854. John Murray. A curious search after a jumble of ancient manu scripts, supposed to be stowed away in the antique dwellings still occupied by the celebates of St. Sabba, of Thebes, of Mount Athos, and of Meteora, would, at the first blush, seem to give but small promiQe through the narrative of its prosecution of anything like even the most moderate entertain ment. Nevertheless, all the world knows that this was literally and precisely the very enterprise to which we have been indebted for one of the mast charming books of travel ever offered to the popular examination—the picturesque record of the visits made some twenty years since by Mr. Curzon to the " Monasteries of the Levant"—a classic descriptive of Oriental adventure such as the future student will not fail to treasure up de lightedly with Warburton's " Crescent and the Cross," and Kinglake's " Eothen," with the poetic reveries of Lamartine, and the eloquent medita tions of Chateaubriand. Immediately on its first appearance, Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant was felt to be a genuine book, and as such was welcomed accordingly. Its refreshing vivacity, its perfect good humour throughout, its keenness of observation, its instant and subtile appreciation of the ludicrous, its unaffected enthusiasm wherever enthusiasm happened to be called for by heroic associations, its homage for whatever deserved homage, its respect for whatever spoke of the past, and in doing so appealed to our nobler sympathies (old books, old paintings, old churches, and, above all and beyond all, old mouldy, worm-eaten manu script3)—all these peculiarly distinguishing quali- tiesof . the work commanded for it at first - mlr in terest, and at last (when we had fairly entered into the spirit of the narrative), our thorough and un stinted admiration. We abandoned ourselves, after the introductory chapter, to a sense of com plete enjoyment while following our traveller in the story told by him of his personal a.lventures. It mattered nothing whether it conducted us into Egypt or into Turkey, to the Natron Lakes or to the islands of the Greek archipmlago. The narrator was still the same, though the scene visited and described might, in all essential respects, be entirely different. The voice we listened to had still for us the same charming influence, still in spirited by its frank hilarity, still delighted by its evidence through every syllable of being the utter ance at once of the scholar and the gentleman, the - voice in fact of the wandering child of civilisation. Whoever has once read the book, remembers it, reverts to it, recalls to mind now one, now another of its incidents or its characters, the incidents re counted and the characters delineated with a pen of such luminous observation. Who, for example, that has once turned over those pages, can ever forget that wonderul picture of the young monk of Xeropotamo, a magnificent-looking man of thirty or thirty-five, a study for Titian or Sebastian del Piombo, who had never seen a woman, retained no remembrance of his mother (having been conveyed shortly after his birth in Rournelia to his perma nent dwelling place upon the Holy Mountain) who, in fact, had no idea at all as to what sort of things women were, or what they looked like—listening open-eyed, and perhaps open-mouthed from under the great cowl out of which streamed forth his black hair and long beard, while the young English man assured him that women have uo resemblance whatever to the stiff, hard, dry pictures of the Penagia, the Holy Virgin, hanging up in every Greek hurch as the accustomed altarpiece ? Who again can ever lose the recollection of that garrul ous old Abbot of Caracalla who crammed down the throat of the traveller those unwelcome hazel-nuts of Athos and then spoilt his dinner of stayed fish, and olives, and caviare, and salad, and papus yaknesi, by allowing it all to cool upon the brass tray of the sinni perched on the legs of the inverted table, while he—my lord the agoumenos—was very inopportunely one of his interminable long stories ? One of some interest it happily chances to be for once, about the Calabrian Monk Barlaam, who about the year 1336 in his antagon ism to the systent of the ascetic quietists undertook to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches and apparently all. but succeeded in establishing a per manent concord in Christendom. Have we not also a vivid reminiscence of each one among our tra veller's laughable first-surprises, when he comes, as it were breathlessly, every now and then, plump! upon some eastern custom fraught to his western ob servation withmatter for wondering amazement? As when he marvels from the window of his inn at Alex andria—much as Lever's JackMasingbred marvelled from the lattice of his hostelry in the little Celtic bo rough of Oughterard —over the strange phenomenon presented bya (to hi In) wholly unaccustomed specta cle. Watching with au eye of surprise the half-naked men running about, each with something like a dead pig under his arm, shouting out "Mother ! mother!" in a doleful voice—yet who turned out after all to be only the poor sakis or water-carriers, bearing their skins of the divine element and call ing " ! moyah !" (water ! water !) to the thirsty bystanders. How exquisitely and with what a photographic pencil he sketches them all off, one by one, those variegated figures in the wonder ful panorama. The Bedouin - Arab of the wild de sert, one of thoselimber children of the wilderness, thin, gaunt, and dirty, looking as if he could climb, and run, and leap over anything, crowned with the graceful birnoose, and robed with the ma jestic abba, glittering in eye, lissome in step, per fectly free from any restraint, and altogether un• embarrassed by conventional manners ! " I had never pictuied t 3 myself," says Mr. Curzon, " that anything so like a wild beast could exist in the human form "—adding, comically enough, "Au English gentleman in a round hat, and a tight neck bandkerchiti, and boots, with white kid gloves and a little cane in his hand, was a style of mum so utterly and entirely unlike a Bedouin Arab, that I could hardly conceive the possibility - of their being only different species of the same sort of ani inal. A reflection calling to mind the astonish ment expressed by Elliot Warburton when (wend ing his way homewards again from the east, coming back once more to the boundary line be tween the lands of the Cross and of the Crescent), he came once more iu sight of the shaven chins of civilised life—mean and degraded, he tells us, they seemed in his eyes, habituated so long to the flow of the ample beard furnished by nature as the in signia of perfected manhood Other denizens of the far-off countries bordering upon the Levant, Mr. Curzon delineates no less skilfully than the nomadic Bedouin—pourtraying them by a few master-touches in a miniature outline of marvellous verisimilitude ! The kawass, or armed bodyguard, in his whity-brown frock coat, and carrying in his hand a thick cane as his badge of office, a sort of dingy policeman transformed into an extempora neous retainer ! The chaoush, or hired officer of a similar description, bearing a comical silver-headed staff or wand of office, and stalking upon the scene, a melodramatic representation of a Brummagen Chamberlain ! With these the yassakji, or for bidder, carrying a stick without a knob, and look ing in all respects like a dirty kawass, the dimmer copy of a dim original ! And then that all-essen tial personage—the cicerone, interpreter, drago man, Oriental-Figazo-Factotum! Describing whom out author tells us plainly that the servant is master and the master servant, so far as the eccentric relationship existing between the tra veller and the dragoman can in any way be ac curately defined with anything like a scrupulous regard to minute truthfulness. " The newly arrived European," says he, " eats and drinks whatever his dragoman chooses to give him ; sees through his dragoman's eyes ; hears through his ears; and, although he thinks himself master, is, in fact, only a part of the p toperty of this eastern servant, to be used by him as he thinks fit, and turned to the best account like any other real or personal estate." What imparts a peculiar charm to Mr. Curzon's narrative is the circumstance that ho speaks of everything precisely as it appeared to him when he sa,v it. Just as Mr. Dickens told us in his " Pictures from Italy," that Rome looked to him when he first got sight of it, for all the world, exactly the very counterpart—of — London 1 Or as Albert Smith in a some what kindred spirit realised Constantinople to Cockney imagination by likening Galata to Wapping, and observing that Scutari was to Stamboul itself precisely what Birkenhead is to Liverpool I So also, in like manner, the Hon. Robert Curzon—satisfied no doubt with the wis dom of the prinCiple inducing us to call a spade a spade—declares as he slowly advances up the cur rent of the Father of Rivers, that the Nile, as it rolled by him in eddies and w hirlpools of smooth muddy water, bore to him, in its colour, a close resemblance to a sea of mutto i broth ! Weltering along in their old-fashioned and painted Nile boat, our toyageur and his companions get into a pickle—(don't we all recollect it, and grin as we do so, tickled back into risibility by the mere force of the recollection D—crashing down upon a little vessel of the kind ca l led a d jer m a , sinking it, but saving its passengers. Have we n ot a grotesque memory of " our rein, or captain," returning to the roof of his cabin after the catastrophe, and lighting his pipe and smoking away steadily in spite of the mishap, while the victims of it are swearing, and vociferating, and shouting all man ner of invectives ! And of (three hours after wards) the local authorities arriving in the persons of two old villagers, in long blue shirts and dirty turbans and of their taking their seat upon the bank an ' d smoking away in a serious manner for come time ! And of our captain making no more reply to the fresh accusations of the re-assembled • multitude than he had done before ; but lighting another pipe, and declaring that God was great ! "At last" —let us hear Mr. Curzon himself tell the end of the adventure—" the two elders made signs that they intended to speak ; and, silence being obtained, they, with all due solemnity, de clared that they agreed with the captain that God was great, and that undoubtedly Mohammed was the Prophet of God. All parties having come to which conclusion, it appeared that there was nothing more , to be said, and we returned to our boat," and sailed away for a village in the ne,ighbourboo'd ! A genuine glimpse of Egyptian life and manners, recounted with our traveller's customary facetious- ' ness. It is surprising, by the way, how large a share the luscious puffs of the chibouk, and the gurgling bubble of the narghile have in the luxu rious flow, or rather trickle of o r i en t a l conver sation, and how very frequently the dialogues of those smoking the ever - delectable latakia is sprinkled with the pious ejaculation, "La allah illah allah, Mohammet resool allah !" There is but one God, and Mohammed is his Proph e t ! Converse throughout the East, indeed, being little more than tobacco-smoke and adoring apostrophies. But little leisure was allowed himself by Mr. Cur zon during his memorable visits to the monasteries •f the Levant, for the proper enjoyment of that profound state of listless repose, popularly known among the Asiatic races as kef. His progress onwards seems to have been as unintermitting as that of the flying Tatars (or, as we have found them lately, without the f) the native couriers in the land of the sun-rise. Slowly, or rapidly, as occasion admits, ho is ever advancing in those famous travels of 1833, through Egypt, along the borders of the Natron Lakes, high up (soaringly) into the Convent of the Pulley, among the splintered fragments of the ruined monastery of Thebes, away, across the desert, to the white monastery and the red monastery, into the luxuri ant verdure of the Island of Philoe, the green and beautiful, among the holy wonders of Jerusalem, over the sacred soil of Palestine, into the monas teries of St. Sabba and Meteora, and finally into those of the classic Athos, the giant rock that was to have been sculptured into a colossus of Alex ander ! Onward, and ever onward he goes, mer rily, musingly, laughingly, meditatively, observant, and appreciative, ourroving Heraclitus in search, not like CceLbs, of a wife, or Syntax of the pic turesque, but of rare, old, mouldy, dust-begrimed, worm-eaten manuscripts, on vellum, on skins, on pap: r, on papyrus, palempsist and uncial, with his saddle-bags bulging out more and more protu berantly as he moves on from one to another of those not easily numerable monastic institutions. Greeting the old monks, as he comes upon them suddenly in the mulberry-bearing solitudes of Athos, with a "Kalemera sas, ariste, kalemera sas (good day to you, sir, good day to you); or a kali s 's (good morning to you) ;" being answered in re turn, " Kalos orizete ? (how do you do ?)" as he advances to some polite old hermit of the Holy Mountain—one of whom presents the young Eng lish traveller with a large rosy apple, "evidently the best thing he had," says Mr. Curzon, " and I was touched when he gave it me.' Hear him fur- ther—" I took a great bite ; it was very sour in deed ; but what was to be done? I could not bear to vex the old man, so I went on eating a great deal of it, although it brought the tears into my eyes." And thus genially and humorously— does our author encounter adventure after adven ture. 'Ls perception is alike keen for the sublime and for the ridiculous. He takes equally appre ciative note of the awful pillars of sand, columns of dry and heated dust, raised by the whirlwind, and met, every now and then, stalking through the desert, " like the evil genii of the storm " and of the horrid dissonant bray of old Fatima's jackass in the tomb, visited alter nightfall in the Thebes Necropolis: The latter incident interrupt ing, very laughably, a -easel) made there after cer tain Coptic manuscripts. Mr. Curzon's account of his interview with Mohammed Ali—according to him " a hale, broad-shouldered, broad-faced, man [in 1833]," with a " short grey beard stuck out from each side of his face, his nostrils very much opened, and with his quick sharp eye, look ing like en old grey lion"—is, altogether, a capi tal. piece of eerie-comic description. Following out a hint offered by the very remarkable calcu lation that it takes the wits of -4 Turks to overreach one Frank : 2 Franks to cheat one Greek : 2 Greeks to cheat one Jew : 6 Jews to cheat one Armenian : Mr. Curzon tells a delightful anecdote about the ingenious manner in which a poor devil of a Jew is regularly (there is no other word for it) bam boozled. by a Turk, acting upon a plan suggested to him by a venerable Hadji, " a sly, long•bearded, grave personage, who had made two pilgrimages to Mecca." First of all, the Turk is the poor devil, rather than the Jew, upon whom he is ultimately revenged, thanks to the ingenuity of the cunning' old Hadji aforesaid—for we learn that " every day when the Turk brought back his purchases to Valido Khan, where ho put up during his stay in the city [Cairo], he invariably found that somehow or other he had been taken in : lie was sure to find that he had been cheated either in measure, weight, quality, or something else." Bono Turco, under this daily infliction, gets at last, as a matter of course, thoroughly exasperated—sore and touchy to the last degree—and the more he is fleeced the more and more thin-skinned he becomes on the subject of his dealings wi•li the Hebrew. In de spair he flies to the Hadji already mentioned — "Oh ! Hadji," be cries, "in the ' name of the Prophet help me in this thing : tell me of your charity of some device by which I maybe revenged on this Ceifoot, this Jew, for the ehainefal way in which he has continually cheated a true believer like myself. I might beat him certainly, I might make him eat stick ; hut then I should put myself in the wrong, I should get into trouble with the Cadi, and the end would be worse than the begin ning." Tne Hadji having listened with becoming gravity delivers a long whiff of smoke from his pipe feom among the hairs of his umbrageous mous tache, and thus replies—" My son, return again to the Jew's shop, look about among his wares, aud, seizing upon some insignificant-looking thing, ask eagerly the price, holding it in your hand and taking out a purse of gold at the same time : pay him down upon his counter board immediately whatever he may ask ; walk away rapidly with a smiling countenance : do this, and you will be re vengeal." The poor Turk is so bewildered at first by this strange advice that he is almost tempted to fancy his countryman is joking, only he knows very well, says Mr. Curzon, " that the Hadji is no joker, and [in fact] had never made a joke in his life." However away he starts to the Jew's shop, in which he pounces upon a little old box worth per haps some 20 piastres—but for which the villain of a Jew asks him, unconscionably and without any bowels of compassion -200 ! " His great dif ficulty now was," says our narrator, "to pay this money with a cheerful countenance, for he felt that be was being cheated again ; however, lie made an effort, paid the 200 piastres with a smile, and walked off with the shabby little box with the air of a man who had done something clever." "Well," says the Hadji to him when they met again towards evening, " have you done what I said ?—have you followed my advice ?" " Yes," replies the Turk, "I have : see, hero is a box ; what is it worth ? ten piastres ? Cursed be all Jews ! What do you think I gave for it Blessed be the Prophet, Jews have no chance in the next world ; that is some c omfort anyhow : but how am I 'revenge, 0 Hadji ? Tell me, 0 father ; do not laugh at my beard, for the son of abomination is counting by 200 piastres at this moment : may his soul e t grilled and made into 200 skewe rs of kabobs . Behold, I do not sea how I am to be revenged." " Ya.vash, gently, my son." sap the Hadji, " yavash ; tomorrow, Inshallah , y ou will see and speaking thus he puffs aw a y at his pipe com placently. To-morrow comes in duo course—and lo ! our friend Bono Turco of the simple-mind, wandering through the bazaar with a rueful visage, finds the Jew's shop shut up ! " Oh, sir," says a bystander in reply to his inquiries upon this some what unusual circumstance, " Oh, aga, be it known to your nobility that yesterday a merchant, who had many dealings with this Jew, and to whom he was as it were an estate, a khasniular, a treasurer, from the profit Which the Jew made out of him — this merchant bought a box at his shop ; it was evidently worth nothing so far as its appearance went ; but the merchant having paid two thousand piastres, as it is said, rather than lose this mean looking box, a thought came into the head of the Jew —there must have been a diamond in it ! He considered, and, shutting up his shop in vexation, he went home and told his wife. Perhaps it was a talisman,' she said. Oh, fool said his wife's mother, miserable dog that thou art, doubtless it was Solomon's seal ; for otherwise why should a Turk give such a sum for a mean box worth no thing ? Alas ! thou fool, what hast thou done ? Thou disgrace to our house, hast thou kept a shop in the bazaar so long for this ? Oh, small man, a woman indeed would have been more awake. Alas, that we have married our daughter to an ass ! Woe is me ! Dost thou call thyself a man ?—a man ! where are thy brains, oh man ?—say hast thou any brains or not ? Mast thou ruined thy family or least thou not ?—what dirt has th ou b een eating ? Alas ! alas amaan, amaan, amaan. The poor man had no peace. . . and therefore, Oh aga, in the morning, his life being a burthen, ho went out into his garden and hanged himself." Bono Turco is much shocked by this news of the unhappy end of the Jew, but, adds Mr. Curzon, a Persian dealer in Kirmaun shawls standing by ohserves, " By the name of Ali, I am glad that the Jew hanged him self, but I am sorry he did not leave me the 200 piastres in his will." So does our humorist-tra veller chuckle over "ye manners and customs" of the motley Orient population, as he saunters obser vantly among them, jotting down notes for the " prenting " with a sense of the droll as sly and dry as ever scrawled a gr i n upon Hogarth's thumbnail ! It were superfluous, however, to consider either th e b eau ti es or the comicalities of this delightful book, seriatim et literatim, sprinkled plentifully through it as they are—yea, as plentifully as plums and candied peel in a Christmas pudding. Scarcely less a matter of supererogation would it be so to analyse the merits and demerits of the volume recently given to us by the same deft hand, and coloured into picturesque life by the same skilled ability—the volatile de scriptive quite as luminously of a residence in Armenia and a year's sojourn in Erzeroum as its predecessor was of our author's far-famed visits to the ancient monasteries of the Levant. Enough for our present purpose if we commend Curz.on's Armenia with the like unstinted cordiality with which the heartiest eulogist could ever lip the praises due to Curzon's Monasteries. Both are books of a rare value to the lover of adventur ous travel and picturesque description—of a value as difficult to estimate with anything like minute accuracy as it would be to calculate that of a solid ton of am b ergr i s , o r of an extended hill-side of unflawed and unbroken malachite. A Century of Acrostics. Sitnpkin, Marshall, dr Co. This elegant little volume comes before us with a strong title to consideration. We don't mean the merit attrib u t e d to i t o f con t a i n ing the fir s t series of acrostics which has appeared in a sepa rate form ; but the fact that its contents have been composed in order to relieve the tedium con sequent on the author's deprivatien of sight. We are the more gratified, therefore, on being able to award it a considerable degree of approbation, be cause, however deplorable the fact of the author's affliction may be, that were an insufficient reason for us to aid in extending the tedium he experiences to others. It is decidedly a clever little book, all thinus considered, and turns the acrostic to really useful account, the hundred it contains being writ ten on some of the most eminent names in litera ture, science, and art, down to the present time, the whole, commencing with Homer, being chrono logically arranged with dates of birth, iitc. The peculiarities and merits of many of the subjects are very happily hit off in elegant verse, and in several instances where exception may be taken the fault lies mainly in the exigency of the restricted lines. Among those most successfully delineating the moderns are Burns, Burke, Dickens, Brougham, Tennyson, and Macaulay. Singularly enough, " the Lard Hamlet" is the subject of two acrostics; and, after all, why should not the philosophic prince of Shakspere be treated as a celebrity that has moved and breathed, that moves and breathes, indeed, in human form ? To thousands he is less of an abstraction than his creator, the im mortal dramatist himself. We would rather take exception to the introduction of Prince Albert, who, though real enough, is somewhat imagina tively dealt with. Passing this by, however, we have felt pleasure in the perusal of the work, a pleasure greatly increased by the proofs it affords not only of the writer's talent, but also of the cheerful spirit in which he contends against his • misfortune, evidenced in its healthy tone and the puns lie perpetrates in it. We cordially recom mend the " Century of Acrostics" to the notice of our readers. My First Season,. By Beatrice Reynolds. Edited by a the Author of " Counterparts." Smith, Elder, and Co. One of those books which will be welcomed in most circles and be asked for at the libraries. The heroine records in propria personce her experiences in her " first season," prefacing the account with a sketch of her early life. Until fourteen she haR owed her desultory learning to her own fancy, and her father, a studious clergyman and a widower's tuition ; and afterwards her naturally vigourous powers of mind are further strengthened by the instructions of her cousin's tutor, a Pole of com manding abilities and character. Thus prepared she enters on her first season, during which ample scope is given by the author for the exercise of her keen analytical powers on the folly, duplicity, worldliness, or virtue of the characters introduced. Some of these are sketched with masterly skill, more especiaLly her chaperone, Lady Barres ; and of the work generally we may say, to a neat and vigorous succinctness of style are added the re sults of a keen. observation of character and much independence of theaght—by one duly alive to high and generous influences. Blenham. By E. Elliott. W. and J. G. Cash. An interesting story, founded on facts, and ex hibiting the iniquity of church-rates and the equity of voluntaryism in religious matters in a forcible manner. The hero and martyr is a sturdy and en lightened village smith, brought before the eccle siastical court, and cast into prison, where contracts jail fever, and suffers otherwise in mi'ad, body, and estate, for conscientiously refusiv, g to pay a church-rate, and that, by thy way, iP,egally levied, the result, though ultimately fats', to the individual, being the virtual establishmei it in the parish of the principle in vindication of which lie suffered. lune work is characterised by a good deal of fairness and moderation of tone, in comjnnetion with not a little hard hitting, shrewd :reilec - ion, an d successful delineation, and is likely to conduce to the spreaal of voluntaryism. The Harper .Establishment. By Jaccb Abbott. Harper and Brothers, New York. One of " Harper's Story Books," in which a lucid deAcripticin of the magnificent priuting establish men,t of the Messrs Harper, of New York, and the mo d e in which the story books aie made, is given. Those who wish to become acquainted with the mysteries of comp os i ng , p r i nt i ng, Engraving, marblivg, furnhhing, 87, - c., may consult them) pages with advantage, while those who need no .nfora,a tiou on th• ese heads may learn annett,ing from the admix:Ole arrangement of the establishment, and the cm istructiou of the building, which is rendered fire pr( of. The Li yes of our Heroes in the Crimea. By Georgo o J amesthis FipeoLpi popular d r A cl e p lt idi n tie C w o o . rk, which cannot he perused without emotion, so heroic are most of the careers therein recorded. It i 3 but Just, while creditable to Mr. Ryan, that the chivalry of the humble subaltern should thus be associated with that of his military superiors. But 'how came the author, who has executed his task .con amore, to omit such of the non-commis sioned officers and privates as have remarkably.dis tinctuis:led thems elves in the same field ? In a future b e dition this omission, it is to be desired, will be supplied. Lizzie Leigh, and other Tales. By the author of _ _ 44 yfary Varton. Chapman and Hall. These tales, which have already appeared in de gousehold Wo,-ds " and elsewhere, we have here published in connection with the " Select Library of Fiction," and which we do not hesitate to say will be generally regarded as a most valuable contribution. Among the tales associated with Lizzy Leigh, that story of homely pathos, deepening t o tragic intensity, will be found " forton Hall," " The Heart of John Middleton," " The Nurse's Story," " The Squire's Story," and the graphi c and amusing " Confessions of a Mr. Harrison," the whole forming a more than ordinarily b a d. nating volume of this cheap and startling series. Was Lord Cevrdigan a Hero at Balaklava ? By George Ryan. James Field and Co. The author is of opinion his lordship was not, and adduces startling reasons (ill or well founded) for thinking so, at the same time challenging con tradiction with the utmost boldness. The inquiry is taken from the guinea edition of the preceding work, and contains remarkable additions. The south of England papers record nume rous in• stances of dinners, publi c an d private , on the 20th inst., to celebrate the anniversary ofthe battle of the Alma. TESTIMONIAL TO SIR C HARLES NAPIEL—A nume rously attended meeting, object, was held last night at conve ned by a committee ay pointed to ca rr y out t h e the Gordon H o t e l, Covent-garden , obtaining for the purpose of a testimonial to Sir Charles Napier. Mr. James Ho mes , w h o presided, adverted to the circum• stances connected with the command of the Baltic fleet by Sir Charles Napier, and his dismissal on re turn , and contended that the Adm iral had been g oaded, vilifie d , and misrepresented. Several gentlemen warmly de fended Sir Charles Napier, and called upon the meeting not only to s ympathise with him, but to express a dis. approval of the mode in which the affairs of the Admi. rally were managed. Resolutions were then adopted, to the effect that, having carefully coiridered the facts i n connection with the dismissal of Sir Charles Napier from the command of the Baltic fleet, and the imputa tions cast upon his character and conduct, the meeting was of opinion that he bad been unjustly treated, and was therefore determined to present to him a testimonial both as an expression of their esteem and sympathy, and as an evidence of the publio sense of right and wrong; that the qualities exhibited by Sir Charles while in command were those of sound judgment, firmness, and discretion, whereby he had rendered great service to his country and deserved their thanks and gratitude. It was also determined that subscription lista should be opened through Out the country, the amount of each individual subscription being restricted to the sum of ls., in order to see how widely the opinions expressed were glared. ) 1$ ed ,r. go, 6 3; Lte at Ve or ell, ,er, is ; ler* 321 i ~~ ' .k r.