The Sun. — London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

Mr"' • 1 ..._. ..; ob AN:: (49;10.-FERCIA 1. INTELLIGE tl CE. ,led soot Lth if, I, u ssioa nld rer of ji nd th l s the r angst officia l ,;) pobb.c.4 as to the dilrig ' , sir gr Sirr ;all, ieSS esp y " 3 Or iJ ail ° 05 0 1 110 '11 .4 0: 1 4, O w . 4 I VLONEY MA B KET Th e cotto CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. fed W. market at Liverpool, on Saturday, %lona Ith n - a firmer appearance. The sales . 4h (3 n od to 10 , 0 00 b ales, comprising 7,500 Amen '. 4 00 f o r ul °I Which w ere t a k en on s p ecu l a ti on , an d ' 416 008 4111°11 ), 400 Egyptian at sd. to 64d., and We re .., 11 -TAt at 3d. to 3-&d. per lb. Railway Shares Th e " f a i in at 21. to 3/. advance. tire ia I , ° "°' Wing account of colonial wool sa is .„ 9' Ai essrs. S. B. Elenborough and Co les a Khe first , Ze 1 sti, series of sales a this year commenced on '4 ~ , 4 1l .; and terminated on Saturday afternoon. li at,Ta' a ,,N7' l sB comprised the following, viz. :—Austra lillua - k u R GL bales ; South Australian, 883 ; P,rt-Phi deNt",l Van Diemen's Land, 2,359 ; Cape, 7,763 ; „T End, 828 ; Swan River, ; East India, 2,367 41 ,40 - R , ~,I* 35 ,718 ; Sundries and Foreign, 4,899—T0-1,-= 1,-= ~ It weip l e t attenda nce th roughout has b een numerous, and Itith 1, 0 , 'avers have operated largely, competing eagerly ttitt a tie c onsumers. Trade in the manufacturing dis til% et b us lately suffered from the general depression ; last, e , Pted with dearness of provisions and scarcity of 0118-irQeatised prices to decline from 11d. to 2d. per lb. hllip e :l,,ilriey clothing qualities, and ;d. t) id. on Port t r iati w-11,`; Cape. East India was in good demand, and ladi h ' e ,". spported. Great caution continues to be ther e ,:' all. Purchases, and stocks are much reduced, and Thi.-3!0(0 speculation." `'gence brought by the steamer Atlantic ork, reports a continuance of the ease ;d in the money market, and the banks !ed large stocks of specie. The last ern of the city banks contrasted favour le statement made at the corresponding 854 . Fancy Securities were generally Ined, though at the latest date there aviness. ter Atrato has arrived with the West but her advices will not be in town o/iv. nits from St. Petersburg give many ietails of the Emperor's death. Upon !(.1 by Dr. Mandt in the evening of the his end was approaching, the Empe the communication very tranquilly, hen he should be paralysed. This Was not able to indicate the ant, and the Emperor then addressed (esiring to know when he should be 'ed. Previous to his decease the Em -erat distinguished persons to his room, 4 ,‘: th e , -Y ,_ Count Orloff and Count Adlerberg, liti le v'tf tl ec t tl; ente. made various arrangements in Alected manner. At the latest tkt i all the members of the Royal fami ly 'V,. in e j li „, B C. Petersburg were in the cham- V , - -,‘-cing the grandchildren, who save -1,74-ceired the Emperor's blessing. The i i li oft :aa quite resigned. As regards the atti ierk .e troops and the population upon Alex /NitlqlL'auili,,e- his proclamation, there was no '. feu desired, according to the statement its% o:::esian envoy. 1,1 0 62t: ct „,° Rent away by the steamer to India is Tjeooo d • c oi h i e ar. tlantic, from New York, brings 11 4 41 Peni og prices of the funds were not quite 40'4ed there is less doing after the excitement 1 / 4. b 411, 31 1 h a ttd Saturday. Consols have been 934 i, V o l lie . e;": 93g- i. For time the transactions VIls; -- a ' 9 4 4, and since at 93i f 4 . The specu "lto reason that peace is not so near as Ali k i t ' a •le cil. The New 3 per Cents. have been ' ilie ' Th,"l'pfr-e'rtiieuirrince 941- f. Exchequer Bills are ss. ALTtirk e ,_ign securities have been very brisk. :,1,,,- - 3 ! ,-. bonds have been at 78• Z and 79a, with 'ICI f t ; °4ll t of business. Sardinian Stock has Itrt ic rldit, Bsl 2 to 861. Dutch 4 per Cents. are ,414 11 % , - ,;Lgiazi 41 per Cents. 94. Spanish De -1 44. tht„''s have been in request at 18i to 181. Itac it 13, 4 ": 3 are at 361, Peruvian 3 per Cents. ' '' 4 441,. 14 4 ibharked 501, Grenada Active Bonds ' 4) 4Qtl —e Deferred 512. Brazilian Small Stock kr_itl e ,„ ° ted 102. Mexican Stock is about 21, cts, - 7 49 . has been done at 224, Swedish 4 N t ,, t41 , 4.(z n i. „.. 44 1. , ,, 1 NQ. kt g are the nominal prices of foreign o.'o:kt t , ada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; ...Alexi -14 to i lli ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto Three n ' t lltt o I d, 1) ,,, °4 to 52; Portuguese Four per Cents., ‘ P DA44o l :2 4 ssian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; FP 01 91 4,, 4 MI-a 7 lialf per Cents., 89 to 90 ; ,N 0 7,t8 - ,, 1 P Deferred, 184 to 181 ; ditto Three h. ,..- 4;1 -61 to 3n • ditto Certificates, 44 to 5; itit ilh,. . l ki l l 'e, 4 to 4 1- ' : - N:., W aY meetings l announced are the fol- Sk t l) c 'toPa Date. Place. kid G , nY• Mar. 3, Brussels , tad 4 ' , Lent Nit *head p wp radon Mar. 7, London Tavern. 1 41;'' South-Western Mar. 7, Glasgow. • Ic- 44 bour g terBtern of C ana d a 4 4 ' 1 d Carli s l e - - Mar. 7, Li verpoo l . th ji and Yorkshire , ',I Mediterranean . Mar. 20, Paris. , ..r, Shoff. and Line. Apr. 4, Manchester. • I li l 'i t t a i l 4; I , e _ . ti - te n. . lk‘ ;Ittrbise, and Lan ( N 4411 selt , v4;44 - 1,044 adcenham N t 4 4 .. ........... Mar. 9, London Tavern. ' liiiikitti Fr " Mar. 5, Paris. 1 '44,,,,, 1.4. 4 4 , 11 been a lively market for railway MO t t , ti ill t r ee ci ay's rates to a further advance in ' l ots_' Ls . North-Western, Caledonian, t/11,7,14,ties Great Western and Midland .41 ,, , e a b,, tinin ' favour. Foreign Shares are in 4 .4i4"%r a ll i c 's including Eastern of France and kri I. a k ,t1,. (1 114„, i '4 '' 'Y '''' United Mexican Mine Shares are th f li p _ I ba quotations, the banks ar 4 84 1., -' Companies' well supported e steady, Fvv.„" u S THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. t h r t e , 4 ( From the 01cial List.) I tl : (11 4 i. ) t 1 4 141 leed Annuities.. Business done ... 91 3 4 0 21 1)er 0::,Isols Annuities 9 34 R7I i SO. c e "‘„l Annuities 1 / 4 ,, tif i g Attl e , m t• Annuities . 801 1 / 4 ,0 I ' 4, aPire sth Jan., 1860 ... 41 ate rqs 4r .. e "16. 6, . , ............................. 222 201 I Sita ke°llllu kri, r nn, t, Bth March 9 ni 42 . 44 i Itm . 2id. klikkcup ............................ . ... 55 b i i , t ti,; "to 1181858, 3i per Cent. 99?j 1/4clikt 1859, ** . 991 a Nt,„,o_P FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. it lik tt1 1: 1 , 411 ; 4 : : 5 5 p ve er i. Cent.... _ I\4l, l:l° Ads . "*;*•• • ......... lO2 kn o , 11 per Cent ibmill ~,., 15i 4„...,8, Deferred Ott o )11 1 Tent. 4 / 4 4 4 ,. pe -, 4 12 per Cent. • St, per 60 1 i , „,,_ •••••••.. ........... ••• ••• • i itsl4ll‘.l4Bl, 3 ,3 3p , pee.rec p e e en r utt cen .. t . .., Con. 1811 391 Vog t ilti a. 5 per Cent ........ - 861 51 6 1 f o , „ eferred, 3 per Cent 13,11 Q! Account 361 18i 1 4 1 ' titt, Bop kit tee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 44 5 41 p e lkortjli. coup et — q eA t 7O 81 9849 81 N 41 1 , ....... .... ..................... .... 794 NA N., 114,3 4 Per Cent. I ) Il k , 'lauds li ti 4: t L . on the above payable in London. "447. g per Cent. -n0.0N.2 k ittN,l4A per Cent. ex. 25 fr 94 i 3 i betr - V, • 2 4 per Cent. 12 Guil — ~..111. certificates bl l . THREE O'CLOCK. 411 5. 4_ Atto:14•••a• r a c• • • • • .......................... 9 9 3 31 i h Acconnt Zz k , ..MIPPING-(THIS DAY.) A ) , u is A.N.ltt4•ilri‘tell, s . —Wind and weather this day at titi‘k tp :; gentle breeze, and fine weather. 0 b --' March 2.—Arrived—Leguan, from Deme ‘ ti t % ‘R A Lk Ti r4 -11 ou t. i"n, March 3.--Stephano, from Java.. __ .4, 4 41 1 , i Eq r . rt. March 4.—Wind, S. to S.E. Arrived - `1 1.1 41 • 3 ' 4143 , front Devonport ; do. Rhadamanthus, -vriAtesina, China ; Peter Gooddeffroy, Chincha. n 1 1 44 k r) „,, a f.t2:!).--1 Sunderland to Bordeaux, has put i w u discharge. A A (i'llt ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) t' h , Ikl,- N ti Th li. Da LrvEnEooL, Monday Morning. k • '',.' -11 1i, 1) uo, from Para ; North American, New 1 from , ,k 1 :4 4 4 k t 4ted, , tl 4 ;:e 7 B l4l ab at Rindostan, and Ocean, , .n m Callao.s tij \ 11, ''''; A 4 iir anzag; Suez, Demerara uul i , `tk4s 4t p til °rit, New York. No s . PWLLHELI, March 4. , 44 t , oi k it Ce . o i r l ti e frorn Charleston, for Liverpool, on shore , a l ,0 Went to pieces yesterday morning ; her ong the beach. , tilt ' W ritt illt niv. L N, , ...._ 4 --. AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) O, g e Ar GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.30 a.m. Ni r eci, l i ; tide first hours' flood ; weather, fine. Javinde " 111 1 1,415° P° 4"r e tell • ile c hArjrie c n a n n Y u ' s, f C ro a ra pe C T u r a ie st st C e a ; stle tts . to , umerton, Berbice ; D'Arcy, Belize; s I, Aftltler e . • ',,\4 4 1 1 „, etor t 13 _ , Teresa, Havannah ; Coldstream,. "•t6„ tiek e al4iti,Z 4 . ° l 4 Ayres ; George Dean,. Maurit a i i ii l s es ; t,Si ; ‘ , 'i„ e i l. , l 4 Fa ; GZideennljae°rßt' Mur . l.tiue • Ch Granite, Ja ,114 M r ,: 141,.‘rionduras Gate, Shanghai ' N; 7 1. 1 '4•!efi c tl ' es 5- -- . Margaret Evans, from New . York ; If t . 11) 1 . 0 , ~, Bolus, Terceira • Flor de Marie, Tar -1'144 ‘ 8.1) 330410V:10 ; Germania, Bremen. f ltlt ‘44ll ° . l)l•t• • ° DEAL, Monday, 9.45 a.m. e'-,..ev oft . i ,' li ght, and fine. -444ib i r:,...1re, f rtdon for 71.1 r_Darabao ' _ o. New York ; QUEENSTOWN, March 2. fr o 'e 144". " o rs a o ti ced nal r y 42t. k r eaeue nhoPP I retort rt ig 0 L pool • titi n ,i'ut the te ,V4l -4 . 4 ° T 185, 80 : 4 tait to hod liteat h ne ea miti k eo/ ,kita i l hail, re of the. Olaaorr< fivitiO/ 4ecouz 0 90 0. a „ de )I'o v IstPritie( th a t e. Oki /44 -4.10 1Y8 d O4 I ' r ta fr %11 tiosiitt c of . "4 soot , koltei i er o f ei , 1 1 / 4 : 114 , 1 ' 0 1 cle f by 4 „ b ad 1 1 , ( 1 et ',I s ate lefiv/ 411 ~~ SIIARE MARKETS. (lhl6 DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 25 St. 20 St. all all 100 100 100 10.101.5h.,31&13 10. Eighths I,ondon and& Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O linelncirrydt Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. vranch.Sher & Linen Do. No. 1 1 ►o., Man. & Lin. Ult. Aidland 'o. Birmng. &Derb Yiidld. G. West. (Im) 00. Half Shares geweastle & Carlisle sTewmkt.Thary Eaten Iwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd iewry & Enniskillet Niewry Warrenpoint and Ro str ever. Norfolk Yorthn. Counties Un orth British... . North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 )0., 1 A. Deferred Do., B Gnarant,-ell N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. Porch Do. Leeds Do. York 'forth London Do. New £lO 13! b all , v. &.S. W strn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn.. worth Staffordshire north Western V. & S. Westrn. Jum guneaton, Hinckle3 and Leicester.. )xford, Worcester, Is Wolverhampton 'ortsmouth :cottish Central IScottishMidland. 31 'hrewsby. dti Ilerefel X) Thropshiro Union ii youth Devon ioatl: Eastern 11 south Wales A. Yrksh. dt Riv. Dnt .. tiO 216 141 s. taines, Wok. itWol , Stockton & Darlin itGlkton & Hartlepi Fail' Vale .. )o. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 'hanks Haven Doc': and Railway Vale of Neath Watcrf K k enn:. VaterforrldtLimeri. West Cornwall' Vest End of Loudol and Crystal Palace Vest London Wimbledu&Croydoi Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng Bost and Eastn. Junct... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh dr Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. dr Birk.; £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20..... ...... Myth & Tyns origina £25 (issd. at £4s' Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Dxdon Cork, Black, & Pas: Cornwall Oricif .Junction DubliildrlielfastJunc Dundee Perth &Abe, deco Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, I' Stock ... l)., B Stock Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgov. Edinb. and Peebles. Edin. Prtli dr Dun& Perth & Clyde June. 'Furness. Extension........ Glasgow & S. Weston cheat Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &Wcst.(lre. Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. Now Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do. Fifths D , Wst. Riding Un Liv.Crsby.&Southirt London & Blackwal bond. Bright & S.Cst tiond. and N. Westb Do. Fifths Ifflosing Prices this &v. 20i -21 i 4/ - 5 Si Si 13 —12 i 16 17 7J bid 90 - 92 6 - C 4, 12:, 7 ia 3i - 2i 5i - H - 15 114 - 11 29 - 31 20 - 22 72 74 55 57 2d par 20 - 21 70 - 72 90 - 911 72 - 74 , 27 - 128 90 2 65 651 58 - 60 70 - 75 - 7' 5 - 7 71i -77 i ••• - ••• C 8 A 99 - 101 99i 1004 ad id d .86 a- 87 8 7.i I ; 7i - WI foe "'' live 24 1 - 25 71 - 8i 69 - 694 41. - 42 - I r 11 - 9 - 24 49 - 51 3i 34 29,4 .. 30} 8 10 6A 7i 73. 743 64 —64 d 4i l`2. 124. 5) -- 51 49 50 d par 4g 5. 6 1 d par 30 - 31 99 - 101 63 - C 5 4G - 48 13 - 14 61 62 28i -29 i 4 - 2 2 - 1 ii = 39 ... •• • • 3i -- 4i !6i 17 - 23 - 5i - 6i 6 - 7 FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central ludia.Serip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and BeFancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Ey',ension Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Canad:LA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Franc , : Ut. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Oblig,ations ....... Gt. Western of Canad Shares ........... Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 .. Do. do., '76, p. '60... Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 por cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. pref Lyons and Geneva ... Lyons & Mediterran vladras Do. Now Niaria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (witl interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D0.20/.Blls.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3R p. c. & red. at 22i/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. gorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen— ParisCaen dt Cherbrg. R onen and Havre...- Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse ) Do. 54 p. cent. Pref southern of France 4i. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref,„ Western of France_ West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand TOTNT-STOI Australasia ißritish Colonial Bank and Loan Compan3 British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Loud English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia Ditto New London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Wostminatel National Provinoia.li of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australmßkg & Gold Imp Co Flontth Australia Union Jf Australia Do. New Uthou of London - 7 1 - g 3' - 31 par ii P ~ ..-. ... .1 -P. 33 - 33 4 6 - 7 ii - lgpi •,, •••• ••• - d i ,•• ••• 11 2i• 3P par — op 2 3 2i 3 171 17 96 98 95 97 100 —. 102. 92 94 2 d pm 97 100, - 11 - 2/p . ... A d par i liP 61 - 71 iii Z Ai 11-- 12 -94 22 -22 p 46 50 41 43 pm 22 23 ld par 2} lid 8 ••• ''" ••• ... --" pm 3 / 4 - 1 - S p i . ••• • iii = iii BANKS• 80 -- 82 id—id 2i 21 20 21 par ii = 36 38 - 40 38 -- 40 64 - 66 7 -- 9 Business done this day. 21 201 B'2el St. 25 25 50 St. 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 10 5 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 100 all all 2, 64k II k k 13 12 13 12f I4i 11/ 204 1 91 -iii 74 3 128 74 92 01 6 64 45 77j 111 ' 100 k k 8 100 99k i 100 k 100 k 51 8 6 1 i I 69i 70 691 411 73i 4 13f 13i 61 29 i 8/ 74 8 i i 33/ 4 3i i 22 i 114 i 11 i i 16 Al i 3131 4 2 3 17f i 96i 93i 21 191 TILE StIN, LONDON, MONDAY EyENING, MARCH 5, 1855. MARKET NEWS---(THIS DAL) LITERATU.R.E. Major Bagstock and to Major Pendennis. Watch him, as he saunters by, while we are looking with Mr. Shiel out of this memorial window of the Past : CORN EXCHANGE. Sketches, Legal and Political. By the late Right Hon. Richard Lalor Shiel. Edited by M. W. Savage. Hurst and Blackett, for Henry Col burn. The sparkling volumes before us are more than ordinarily acceptable. They recall to mind, agree ably enough, the animated eloquence and keen ob servation of one of the last, as he was also, in an other sense, one of the first, among the great ora tors of Ireland. We are gratified to observe that a biography of Richard Shiel, from the pen of one no less competent for the. task of writing it than Torrens M'Cullae,h, is at length announced for early publication. In the meantime we are re joiced to have the opportunity of affording the pre sent collection of " Sketches' a welcome befitting their various, brilliant, and uncommon excellence. As already in so many similar instances, their tardy issue from the press in this country, in a form thus aggregated and revised, seems to be attributable chiefly, if not entirely, to the appearance of an un authorised production of a like cheracter (a pro miscuous jumble of papers, attributed, Some cor rectly, some incorrectly, to the late Master of the Mint and Envoy to the Court of Tuscauy)—an enterprise not arising, of course, from any of the great houses of the Row, but (the old story again) from the illicit bookstalls of New York and Phila delphia. However it may have happened that these volumes have at length found their way into existence, authoritatively, amongst ourselves, they are welcome for the sake of their departed writer— for their own intrinsic worth—and, beyond this, if for no other reason, because they are the realisation of a design, the accomplishment of which has in various quarters been, now for some time, deside rated. Nay, let us be so far oandid even as to acknowledge that we entertain a sneaking sort of kindness for, a species of spurious, and, morally speaking, a wholly unjustifiable gratitude to, the piratical presses of Brother Jonathan. It is, as we have already intimated, by no means the first occa sion upon which we have been indebted to the ne farious speculation of certain unscrupulous pub lishers of the United States for the issue at last, so to speak, perforce amongst ourselves of some long-desired collection of papers, until then scattered disjointedly among forgotten volumes of reviews and magazines literary treasures thereby allowed to remain, in fact, the veritable waifs and strays of periodical litera ture. But, for substantial works of this descrip tion, formerly pirated at one time in Paris, and at another in Brussels, and still at intervals, likewise, up to the present moment, in America, it is not quite certain that many a now familiar volume, long since well-thumbed from title-page to appendix, would be smiling down upon us in goodly roan, or goodlier calf, from our more frequented book shelves. It has been peculiarly thus, indeed, with the particular department of polite letters to which these " Sketches' by Mr. Shiel of right belong— effusions midway between essays and memoirs, equidistant from political satire and literary criti cism, partaking at once of the attractions arising out of the colloquial of the diarist, and out of the more studied and didactic, though not less alluring, revelations of the autobiographer. A glance at the " Preface by the Editor " will inform the uninitiated that the papers now at last collected together in these volumes first appeared in termittently, and almost as a matter of course from the circumstance of their political character anony mously, in the pages of the Neu, Monthly Maga zine. Each essay has here prefixed to it the date of its original publication. The earliest date being the October of 1822, and the latest the August of 1831—a period of nearly nine Years—when the New Monthly was confided to the editorial guid ance of Thomas Campbell, consequently • before it passed under the sway of Hood's literary fasces— [a sheaf of comic pens surrounding a pencil, if pos- , sible, yet more comic and grotesque !)—therefore, no less obviously, prior to the time when that same eminent periodical, long since become the ap panage of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, had for its sub-editor one no less skilled than Mr. S. C. Hall, and for its editor a man of letters no less illustrious than Sir Bulwer Lytton. It was, consequently, we must remember, during the early period of the career of the New Monthly that Mr. Shiel was among the number of its hid den contributors. Throughout the whole series of his " Sketches Legal and Political," issued through the pages of the New Monthly, from time to time, and only thus tardily grouped together after having undergone a certain moderate degree of revision, it would have been difficult for the most discerning critio to have detected the identity of the writer at the time of their periodical appearance. It was only here and there, indeed, that the orator could have been conjectured by the more astute observer, through the glimpses inadvertently given of any favourite tricks of rhetoric, or pet eccentricities of phraseology. Everywhere in the " Sketches," the author of them, alternately as a Legal Pasquin and a POlitical satirist, concealed his individuality under the ingenious assumption, an assumption cleverly' sustained from first to last, of the writer being an Englishman ! It so happens, consequently, by reason of Mr. Shiel's amusing anxiety to bide his own face behind the mask lie is carefully holding before him as ho writes, that he not unfrequently falls foul of himself in the most unwarrantable manner, speak- I ing in terms the most reprehensive, if not the most I opprobrious (just as it may suit his fancy on the instant), uow of his own policy, now of his own speeches, now even of his own personal peculiarities or defects. The result produced on the reader's mind by the passages in question must be allowed Ito be not the least entertaining in the work before us—one or two of the more unexpected allusions of the kind being in their effect, for the moment, so to speak, bewilderingly delightful. It is thus, for example, when we find Mr. Shiel writing at page 48, vol. ii.:-- " Mr. Shiel rose under similar disadvantages. The echo produced by the diminution of the crowd drowned his voice, which, b e i ng natura ll y o f a h ars h quality, requires great management, and, in order to produce any oratorical impression, mast be kept under the control of art. Mr. Shiel became disheartened, and lost his command over his threat. He grew loud and indistinct. 11 0 also fell into the mis take of laying aside his habitual cast of expres sion and of thought, and in place of endeavouring to excite the feelings of his auditory wearied them with a laborious detail of uninteresti ng facts." Equally droll as a cool impertinence in the way of self-depreciation is the mention made of Mr. Shiel by himself at p. 201, vol. ii., when recording the fact of his appearan ce on the platform at the famous Penenden Heath Meeting, on Friday the 24th of October, 1828. Speaking of himself in that instance rather sneeringly, Mr. Shiel calls himself " Mr. Shiel, the Irish demagogue," and adds, ludicrously enough it must be admitted : " That gentleman sat in one of the waggons appa rently careless of the impression which be should pro duce ; but his pale and biliou s face, in which, discontent and solitude, mingled with a spirit of Sardonic virulence, are expressed, and his restless and unquiet eye, rave indications that he was annoy e d at the opprobrious usepi thets which were showered upon him, and that he was anxious about the event, as it should' personally affect himself. There is certainly in Mr. Sh,el's face and per son little to bespeak the favour of a public assembly ; and if he produces oratorical effects, he must be indebted to a power of phrase and an art in delivery of which in the, uproar in which be spoke it was impossible in that meet ing to form any estimate." Perhaps, however, the most ridiculous incident of the kind discoverable in the whole work is that which may be found yet further on in the same volume from which we have already quoted, namely, at p. 345, where Mr. Shiel thus humorously de scribes the difficulty of his (Mr. Shiel's) own posi tion as the Marquess of Anglesea's nominee in the representation of Milbourne Port "There is this farther awkwardness in his position : as a Government member allowance would have been made for his necessity to sustain the Administration which put him in : he has now no apology to make to his constituents. If he votes against Government he will be charged with an oblivion of favours ; and if he votes with Government he will be denounced by his friends as a traitor to the people. The little gentleman is in a practical dilemma, which it will require some of his habits of rhetorical artifice to escape." If our orator -essayist can contrive thus shrewdly to hit off himself with all his oddest i peculiarities— be sure he is not a jot less skilful n his sketches of others, his contemporaries. Sketches, merely, they are at the best, but such sketches! N o paltry silhouettes —snipped out of black upon white as with the petty scissors of some priggish profilist. No mere washy shadowings-forth, as if in pale indigo on paper of a neutral tint. But actual life portraits—veritablemind-callotypes --as though each bad been keenly, brilliantly, searchingly pho tographed ! How Mr. Shiel brands upon his tablet, not with a crayon, but as if with lunar caustic, that sketch of the Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees—whom he here depicts as " a little lumpish man, who rather looked like a superannuated jockey than a divine, with an equestrian slouch in his walk, and the manger in his face, and with a mouth the graceful configura tion of which appeared to have been formed .by the humming of that stable melody with which the ap plication of the currycomb is generally accompanied. After looking at this singular figure, which the tutelary genius of the Church had chosen for its residence, I gave up all my belief in physiognomy, and renounced Lavater for ever." Again, look at his outline of Major M‘Namara—" a Protestant in religion, a Catholic in politics, a Milesian in descent"—whose figure comes before us out of the canvass, in spite of any likeness to George IV., with a memblance, ill (mg eye, both t o Very moderate supplies of home-grown wheat were on sale in most of the country markets held on Saturday, yet the demand for most kinds was in a sluggish state, and prices were barely supported. Barley and malt were very dull and cheaper. Oats, beans, peas, and flour had a downward tendency. From New York we learn that both wheat and flour have realised higher rates. The continental markets have been devoid of animation. "In Dublin he may be seen at half-past four o'clock, strolling with a lounge of easy importance, towards Kildare-street Club-house, and dressed in exact imitation of the King, to whose royal whiskers the Major's are considered to bear a profusely powdered and highly frizzled affinity. Not contented with this single point of resemblance, he has, by the entertainment of 'a score or two of tailors,' and the profound study of the royal fashions, achieved a complete look of Majesty ; and by the turn of his coat, the dilation of his chest, and an aspect of egregious dignity, succeeded in producing in his person a very fine effigy of his Sovereign." Sometimes with one master-touch in the shape of a single felicitous phrase Mr. Shiel brings his man before us, finished to aT. Witness tins, his mention of the " purposed swell and dilation of the shoulders," but above all the " elaborate erectness" of Honest Jack Lawless. Or, again, his pencilling of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, with his "gentlegracefulness and easy intrepidity." Or that fine dash of vigorous and impromptu portraiture where he talks of Father Murphy of Corofin, and his " smile of ghastly derision." The same epigrammatic powers of description are discernible iu Mr. Shiel's sketch of the tall, brawny, pallid figure, of Lord French, with cheeks as white as parchment, and a voice " which, rolled out in a peculiarly melancholy mo dification of the Irish brogue, had a dismal and appalling sound ! " Then, moreover, who that has once read it can forget his picture of Lord Win chelsea, roaring out to the mob on Penenden Heath, " with the lungs of a stentor, and the gesture of a pugilist, and the phrenzy of a fanatic !" Who, again, can resist a smile at his mention of Mr. George Moore, once M.P. for Dublin, with his " look of ruddy juvenility at forty-eight," and his " formidable flow of tautology "—the same un fortunate wight who was dubbed (if we recollect rightly by Mr. Disraeli) as " Sir Forcible Feeble." It is not alone by the vivacity of his derision, how ever, that Mr. Shiel displays his quick and vivid appreciation of his contemporaries. He delineates them accordingly as they appear to him deserving of delineation—some he warms into life before us by the fervour of his panegyric ; others, on the con trary, as we have shown, he preserves for our in spection (as flies are congealed in amber) by holding them suspended in the refrigerating current of his vituperation. Among his more genial descrip tions, commend us to his portraiture of O'Gorman Mahon, with a form "in which the strength of Hercules and the symmetry of Antinous were com bined,". and whom our author here describes as retorting with somuch humorous chivalry at th. famous Clare election, to the mandate to remove from his breast the symbol of the obnoxious " Order of Liberators." When the High Sheriff called out before the assembled _multitude in th e Court-house " I tell that gentleman to take off that badge "—'.and when, after a moment's pause, O'Gorman Mahon thus responded slowly and arti culately..." This gentleman (laying his hand on his breast) tells that gentleman (pointing with the other to the sheriff) that if that gentleman presumes to touch this gentleman, this gentleman will defend himself against that gentleman or any other gentle man, while he has got the arm of a gentleman to protect him." Among the more sarcastic limnings of those with whom Mr. Shiel came in contact, we need go no further in search of any remarkable example than his sketch of the functionary just mentioned, the High Sheriff, who, Mr. Shiel drolly avers to have so contrived, en his return from China to Ireland, as to have imparted " the ca dences of Wesley to the pronunciation of Confu cius." A more extended specimen of our essayist's Mivasi-like powers of portrait painting in pen-and ink will not be unacceptable to our readers, we feel assured. Wherefore, we can scarcely do better than transcribe Mr. Shiel's miniature description of the renowned concoctor of whisky punch, and in comparable adept in the use of scholastic syllo: gisms— Very moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 2,810 qrs of wheat, 1,200 barley, 1,460 beans, 56 tares, 21,164 linseed, 3,113 rapeseed, 142 sundry seeds, 13,997 sacks, and 10,105 barrels of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up this mom ing from Essex and Kent coastwise was moderately good, but the receipts by land carriage wore small. The show of samples of both red and white was by no means extensive. The trade, however, owing to the prospect of peace with Russia, was in a most depressed state. For some time after the open ing of the market scarcely a transaction took place, and the few sales subsequently made wero at a decline in last Monday's quotations of from 3s to fully 4s per quarter. There was a fair average quantity of foreign wheat on sale. No inclination whatever v;as shown to invest in any , description, and prices were nominally about 3a per quar ter lower than on Monday last. Scarcely any of the fresh arrived samples were in the market. There was very little doing in floating cargoes, the prices of which were not supported. Bath English and foreign barley came slowly to hand. Although the stands wero scantily supplied, the barley trade was heavy, at a fall in value of from is to 2s per quarter. We had a dull inquiry for malt, the prices of which had a downward tendency. The oat trade was excessively heavy, and the quotations fell is per quarter. Beaus met a very dull sale, at a fall in value of is per quarter. In peas scarcely any business was doing, and prices gave way is per quarter. The flour trade was very dull. The top price of English was 70s per 2801bs, and other kinds were lower to purchase. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red • • .. new 589 to 685 Ditt0............ old 638 709 Ditto, White .new 74s 79s Ditt0........ old 778 62s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 64s 765 Ditto now .• •• •• 64s 75s Rye—Old •••••••••••• —s —s, Now •• •• •• 42s 44s' Barley—Grinding••• .. 285 305 Malting ....... •• 132 s 34s Chevalier.... ... 343 355, Kelt—Suffolk and Nor folk .• ••........ 623 67s 8r0wn............•.. 588 60s KinastonandWare 68s 70s Malt—Chevalier .... 70s to 71s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsk., Feed 25s 28s Potato •• • • 28s 30s Youghai and Cork 81ack....... 248 298 Cork, White ..... 26s aOs Bootch,Feed... • • 27s 30s Beans—Tick 378 39s Pigeons .... 434 45s Peas—Grey ..•• ••• • •• 33s 37s Maple 38s 418 White. ••. • • 39s 42s Boilers .• .• 41s 43s Flour—Town-mado. •• 65s 70s Suffolk .. •....• • • a4s 60s Stocktn & Norfolk 535 548 SMITHFIELD. Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were on a very limited scale—the total supply being only 358 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we received 2,331 ; in 1853, 2,834; in 1852, 1,519; in 1851, 2,321; in 1850, 1,318 ; in 1849, 1,695 ; and in 1848, 701 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheop. Lambs. Calves. rigs 96 ... 29 ... "•"'" ... ..-- ••• - ... ^-•• gg FATHER TOM." "His manner is peculiar; it is not flowery nor decla matory, but is short, somewhat abrupt, and, to use the French phrase, is trandtant. His countenance is adapted to his mind, and is expressive of the reasoning and con troversial faculties. A quick blue eye, a nose slightly turned up, and formed for the tossing off of an argument, a strong brow, a complexion of mountain ruddiness, and thick lips which are better formed for rude disdain than for polished sarcasm, are his characteristics. He is not greatly gifted with a command of decorated phraseology ; bnt he is master of vigorous language, and has a power of strong and simple reasoning, which is equally intelli gible to all classes. He employs the syllogism of the schools as his chief weapon in argument ; but uses it with such dexterity, that his auditors of the humblest class can follow him, without being aware of the techni cal expedient of logic by which he masters the under standing." Another wonderfully life-like miniature is the following serio-comic sketch of— 64 DOCTOR. DRUMGOOLE." "He was, beyond doubt, a very well-informed and a clover man. He had a great command of speech, and yet was nota pleasing speaker.--He was slow, monotonous, and. invariable. His countunance was full of medical and theological solemnity, and he was wont to carry a hugs stick with a golden head, on which he used to press both his hands in speaking; and, indeed, from the manner in which he swayed his body, and knocked his stick at the end of every period to the ground, which ho accompanies with a species of strange and gutteral hem !' he seemed to me a kind of rhetorical paviour, who was busily engaged in making the great road of liberty, and paving the way to emancipation." As companion portraits, moreover, take the sub joined outlines of two far-famed English dema gogues. ➢iR. COBBETT. "Cobbett is generally represented as a man of rather a clownish•looking demeanour ; and I have read, in some description of him, that he could not, at first view, suggest any notion of his peculiar intellectual powers. Ido not at all agree in the opinion. He has certainly a rude and rough bearing, and affects a heedlessness of form, amounting to coarseness and rusticity. But it is only requisite to look at him in order to see, in the expresion of his countenance, the vigorous mind with which he is endowed.. The higher portion of his face is not unlike Sir Walter Scott's, to whom he bears, espe cially about the brow, a resemblance. His eyes are more vivid than the great author's, while the lower part of his countenance is expressive of firm, vehement emotions. He was dressed in a grey frieze coat, with a red hand kerchief, which gave him a very extraordinary aspect, and presented him in contrast with the body of those who occupied the waggons, who, on account of the pub lic mourning (the Duke of York had died shortly be fore), were dressed in black. He seemed in - excellent health and spirits, far his cheeks were almost as ruddy as his neckcloth, and set off his white hair, while his eyes sparkled at the anticipation of the victory which he was confident he should obtain." MR. HUNT. "I was surprised to find in Mr. Hunt a man of an exceedingly mild and gentle aspect, an ,almost youth ful cheek, a bright and pleasant eye, a sweet and ur bane smile, and altogether a most gentlemanlike and disarming demeanour. His voice, too, is exceedingly melodious, and as soft as his manne r s. Thi s G racc h us of Manchester is utterly unlike the picture which the imagination is apt to form of a tribune of the people ; and, indeed, I do not consider him to possess the exter nal qualifications of a great demagogue, though he is certainly endowed with that plain and simple eloquence which is se peculiarly effective with an English multi tude." Above all, we would here present to view, through! , a rather lengthened quotation, Mr. Shiers masterly sketch of Father Murphy, of Coral', in which may be recognised the portraiture of— A GENUINE IRISH PRIEST. _ , " Father Murphy, the parish priest, came to the en trance, dressed in his surplice. As he stood surrounded by a dense multitude, whom he had hushed into pro found silence, he presented a most imposing object. His form is tall, slender, and emaciated ; but was en veloped in his long robes, that gave a peculiarly sacer dotal aspect. The hand which he stretched forth was ample, but worn to a skinny meagritude and pallor. His face was long, sunken, and cadaverous, but was illuminated by eyes blazing with all the fire of genius, the enthusiasm of religion, and the devotedness of pa triotism. His lank, black hair fell down his temples, and eyebrows of the same colour stretched in thick straight lines along a lofty forehead, and threw over the whole countenance a deep shadow. The sun was shin ing with brilliancy, and rendered his figure, attired as it was in white garments, more conspicuous. The priest proceeded to the altar, and commended the people to abstain, during the Divine ceremony, from all political thinking or occupation. He recited the Mass with great fervency and simplicity of manner, and with all the evidences of unaffected piety. However familiar, from daily repetition with the ritual, he pronounced it with a quiet emphasis, and went through the various forms which are inci dental to it with singular propriety and grace. The people were deeply attentive, and it was observable that most of them could read, for they had prayer-books in their hands, which they read with a quiet devotion. Mass being finished, Father Murphy throw his vestments off, and, without laying down the priest, assumed the politician. Re addressed tho people in Irish, and called upon them to vote for O'Connell in the name of their country and of their religion. It was a mart extra ordinary and powerful display of the externals of elo quence ; and, as far as a person unacquainted with the language could form an estimate of the matter, by the effects produced upon the auditory, it must have been pregnant with genuine oratory. It will be supposed that this singular priest addressed his parishioners is tones and gestures as rude as the wild dialect to which be was giving utterance. His action and attitudes were as graceful as an accomplished actor could use in de livering the speech of Antony, and his intonations were soft, pathetic, denunciatory, and conjuring, according as his theme varied, and as he had recourse to different expedients to influenca the people. The general cha racter of this strange harangue was impassioned and solemn, but he occasionally had recourse to ridicule, and his countenance at once adapted itself with a happy readiness to derision. The finest spirit of sarcasm gleArae4 over biti futurob and $ 11 5 41 t. 5 of 'Pah* at. I tended his description of a miserable Catholic who should I prove recreant to the great cause, by making. a sacrifice of his country to his landlord. The close of his speech was peculiarly effective. He became enflamed by the power of his emotions, and while he raised himself into the loftiest attitude to which he could ascend, he laid one hand on the altar, and shook the other in the spirit of almost prophetic admonition ; and, as his eyes blazed and seemed to start from his forehead, thick drops fell down his face, and his voice rolled through lips livid with passion and covered with foam. It is almost un necessary to say that such an appeal was irresistible. The multitude burst into shouts of acclamation, and would have been ready to mount a battery roaring with cannon at his command." A noble and even wonderful description, that ! and one which justifies our author in asserting tha, in the person of Father Murphy might be recog nised rather the enthusiastic Macbriar in Scott's novel of " Old Mortality" than that Irish priest of farce and caricature, the sycophantic Foigard in Farquhar's comedy of " The Beaux Stratagem." Peneuden Heath has already been mentioned in this notice—indeed, it is from Mr. Shiel's amusing description of the celebrated gathering there in 1828 that we have extracted not only his descrip tion of himself, but his delineations also of Messrs. Hunt and Cobbett r and my Lord Winchelsea. Referring in that same account to his reported but inaudible speech to the meeting, Mr. Shiers narra tive contains an allusion to ourselves, whioli it may amuse our readers to see, if only by reason of its— facetious gravity. "Of what Mr. Shiel actually said it is impossible to give any account, and the miraculous power by which The Sun newspaper of that night contrived to publish his oration in three columns must be referred to some Hohenloe's interposition in favour of that journal. I heard but one sentence, which I afterwards recognised in print as having been spoken."—Sketches, p. 212, vol. ii. Through the medium of these animated sketches the youth of the present generation may make themselves acquainted with all particulars of in terest in regard to occfirrences dating back some twenty or thirty years from the present times— events as renowned for their political importance as that same "Penenden Heath Meeting," or as the memorable "Clare Election," or for the local interest attaching to the " Tabin e t Ball," or to the propo sals made once upon a time in the Rotunda with a view to the cultivation of the soience of " Zoology in Dublin." Meritorous, however, as are the ma jority of the literary papers here collected together from the New Monthly, there are one or two amongst them we cannot but think which had been better left unrifled from the earlier volumes of that magazine. Capital jeux d'esprit they may pro bably have been in their day, but vapid, witless, dull—like Peter Bell—" dull beyond all expression dull," they have now indubitably be come. In illustration of our meaning we need only refer to the farcical nonsense entitled " The Exor cism of a Divine," being the burlesque account of an imaginary miracle by Prince Hohenloe. By introducing into the present collection this prepos terous extravagance, an extravagance which ought to have been left to die out and be forgot ten, the editor of "Shiel's Sketches" ha s b e t ra y e d as little judgment as he has elsewhere not unfre quently shown, scattered about in the volumes be fore us, in foot-notes, as pert as they are unneces sary. Literary sins of commission we should scarcely have expected from the shrewd and agree able author of "The Falcon Family," and the " Bachelor of the Albany." Although an enthusiastic Celt in all his thoughts and feelings, Mr. Shiel was by no means either provincial or restricted in his partialities. He re cognised clearly, for example, as he himself has declared very beautifully, that " compared to her proud and pampered sister, clothed as she is in purple and gold, Ireland with all her natural en dowments, at best appears but a squalid and ema ciated beauty." It is in his description of Ireland and of Irishmen, however, that we chiefly discern the abilities of the Milesian demagogue—it is his evident devotion toErin that wins the sympathy of as English heart to this ambassador to Florence and member of the British Legislature. His am ple knowledge of his country and of her political history is here lavished upon us in a copious stream of lively and agreeable information. Through these sketches we become familiarised (supposing the persons hereafter enumerated to have been, any of them, strangers to us previously) with the motley group of individuals who more or less signalised themselves among the crowd of more prominent Irish advocates of Catholic Emancipation. With John Keogh, the retired silk mercer of Mount Jerome, and originally of Parliament-street, Dub lin—John Keogh, the unrivalled leader of the Catholic Body in 1792 and 1793, nay, even up to the time of the appearance of the veritable Liberator ! Afterwards with Daniel O'Connell himself the uncrowned Monarch of Ireland ! With Dennis Scully for some time his active coadjutor—in his character as a vigorous and eloquent pamphleteer With Wolfe Tone, the Secretary to the Catholic Conunitttee in the Irish capital ! Wi th the late Earl of Fingal, the Pre mier Catholic nobleman in the sister kingdom. With his son the present Earl, when Lord Killeen. Sl' ith "J. K. L.," the celebrated Doctor Doyle, the Catho lic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. With 2Ent - , , as M'Donnel, the London agent of the Catholic Asso ciation—of whom, when Lord Norbury observed him descending the steps of th e h ouse o f D r. Troy' then Catholic Archbishop of Dubli n , the Scarr on of the Bench remarked, in a memorable witticism. —" There is pious .2Eneas coming from the sack of Troy 1" Together with these more conspicuous figures in that epoch of agitation others are recog nisable in Mr. Shiel's Political Sketches—energetic advocates of emancipation. English lay advocates, such as Charles Butler of the Temple, or Irish clerical advocates,such as Father Sheehan of Water ford. It is entertaining, moreover, beyond the scope of the materials for entertainment here im plied, to discern sketches introduced, here and there in these pleasant volumes, of other celebrities, some dead, some still surviving, of Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Brougham, of Sergeant Toler, afterwards Lord Norbury, and of Mr. Stanley, now Earl cf Derby, and leader of the great party of the Conservatives. Of Lord Norbury, Mr. Shiel ob served, in 1827, that his orations were " fraught with a kind of truculent bombast, a sort of san guinary fee-fa-fum r " While of Lord Derby's oratorical powers he wrote, in 1831 :—" His lan guage, although it is faultless and flows from the well f English undefiled, is not rich, coloured, or diversified ; his expression does not sparkle; it has neither the glitter of fancy nor the splendour of imagination.' Such, in truth, were not among the characteristics of the genius of Richard Lalor Shiel himself as a speaker—of him none could ever say "no generous exclamation ever breaks from his lips ; his eyes are never on fire with a moral in spiration ; he is never lifted from the ground' by any ascendancy of emotion." Witness this that noble and even magnificent peroration to his great speech at the close of the Clare election—when descanting on the power exercised by the Catholic Association over the Irish peasantry, he cried out with the true °estrum of the orator, so to speak, in an agony of adjuration—" What think you of all this ? Is it meet and wise to leave us armed with such a dominion ? Trust us not with it ; strip us of this appalling despotism ; annihilate us by concession ; extinguish us with peace ; dis array us by equality ; instead of angry slaves make us contented citizens : if you do not—tremble for the result !" During the earlier part of which splendid harangue the orator bad exclaimed with such wondrous effect—" Do you think that Mr. Daniel O'Connell has himself, and by the single powers of his own mind, unaided by any external co-operation, brought the country to this great crisis of agitation ? Mr. O'Connell, with all his talents for excitation, would have been utterly powerless and incapable, unless he had been allied with a great conspirator against the public peace ; and I will tell you who that confederate is—it is the law of the land itself that has been Mr. O'Con-. Hell's main associate, and that ought_ to d be de nounced Th e rod ean eneltan e, volume s of his of oppression aas the wand agitatorof this oo ff potenthis spells is the Penal of the passions, and the boo k this • 6 Penal Code. Break the wand of political magic, and he will evoke _ p -take from th h e im s i t r h i e ts which are un- Prospero, and un der his control no longer." Elociaence such as this it is seldom our opportunity now to chronicle -only, indeed, at rare intervals, as when but the other evening, in the House of Commons, one of the most able and gifted among the orators of the present age, the honourable member for the city of Manchester, in a burst of oratory worthy of John Bright, worthier of a juster argument than John Bright was then enforcing, and not unworthy of the rhetorical powers of Shiel, or of any one of Shiel's immediate contemporaries, solemnly ad jured the Prime Minister of England to allay the shedding of blood in the present war against the Russian Autocrat, exclaiming—" The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you that blood he may the lintel spe and the s may almost hear the very beatin g o f hi s wings. The rei sn i de e one posts to of u o r doors, sprinkle with e: n that f m m t b h a l e ek, e w a e tn a h( l ii t s h i t wealthy, e e om q n. equally behalflalyp p a e s ao a lf. t , " the At these eoistne and pass on ; but he call s a tth e castle of the noble, tt c ah l a ge sesmeosaf mansion some measure the incidental record of an eloquence kindred to this in its emotional fervour, and coloured into exquisite beauty by all the adorn ments of a copious and varied, but, even during moments of the greatest intellectual excitement, an aptly and fastidiously selected phraseology—these volumes of " Sketches, Legal and Political," from the pen of the late Right Hon. Richard Lalor Shiel, ?,ZQ uudefierying 9f a place . tiron. - - already adorned with the effusions of a Burke and a Cicero, of a Chatham and a Demosthenes. This is high praise when accorded to a collection of fugi tive contributions to a magazine, but preseiving to us, as some of these occasional pieces do, examples of the oratorical genius of Mr. Shiel—it is, we can.. not but think, praise eminently well deserved. When may we hope to recognise the opportunity of according some yet more cordial welcome to a work still worthier of commendation--a work more substantially valuable as an accession to our na tional literature ? When may we 'have the satis faction of hailing the appearance—thoroughly re vised and carefully annotated—not of 66 Shierts Sketches," but of " Shiel's Speeches ?" Frora Ostend Harlingen Carril 4O ... T0ta1.... 240 ... ... 118 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Boasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1854 775 ... 1,333 ... ... 223 1 4 53 475 2,126 ... .852 344 985 -. .851 395 ,” 1,571 ... 850 529 552 - 227 ... 6 - 190 ... - 341 20 - 237 ... - 1949 369 1,142 ;.. 184 The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was un usually small. From our own grazing districts a very small supply of beasts came fresh to hand, but its general quality was good. There was a moderate number of buyers in attendance, and the beef trade ruled brisk, at an improvement in the quo tations obtained on Monday last of 2d per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected. The best Scots produced 5s per 81b. The arrival of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire amounted to 1,800 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England 300 of various breeds; and from Scotland 240 horned and polled Scots. We were very scantily supplied with all breeds of sheep. The primest old Downs, from their extreme scarcity, were about 2d per 81bs dearer than on this day se'nnight, yet the general top figure for mutton, in the wool, did not ex ceed 5d per 81bs. Half-brads, Swintons, and other breeds, were steady, but not dearer. There were about 1,000 sheep out of the wool, which sold at 6d per 81bs under those in the wool. There were very few calves in the market, yet they changed bands slowly, at from 4s 2d to 5s per Sibs. The pork trade was ♦ery dull, but we have no change to notice in prices. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.l s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 £fiPrimeSenthdown 410 5 0 1 Second quality.... 3 10 4 4 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime largo oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 2 Prime Scots, dm. 410 5 0 Large hogs 3 0 4 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 B,Small porkers 4 2 4 4 Second quality ...3 10 4 21Suckling calves.. 22 0 29 0 Primo crse.-wlled.4 4 4 81Quarter old pigs 19 0 25 0 ' TOTAL SUPPLY. i FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. Sheep .• •••..•••• .. • • .. —14,840 Sheep .................... Calves .. ••.. •• ...• •• •• • • 14 Pigs ...........• .• •••• •• 310, Pig 5.........• •.• • .. ...... A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market. on Monday, March 6, 1854, and this day, Monday, March 5, 1855. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Mar. 6, IS54.lMar. 5,1855, s. d. s. d. is. d. e. d 3 oto 3 23 6to 3 8 3 4 3 6.3 10 4 4 3 8 4 0:4 6 4 8 4 2 4 4 4 10 5 0 303 4 4 3 3 6 4 23 10 4 2 4 4 4 WI, 4 4 8 4 5 5 0,410 5 0 0 0 0 o i o 0 0 0 4 6 5 24 0 4 6 4 4 5 84 8 5 2 3 0 4 2'3 0 4 0 4 4 410,4 2 4 4 Coarse and inferior beasts Second quality ditto • Prime large oxen ... Prime Scots, &e ,„ Coarse and inferior sheep „. Second quality ditto ,„ „, Primo coarse woolled ditto Prime Southdown ditto Large coarse calves ,„ Prime small ditto ... Large hogs Neat small porkers Boasts... 4,501 Sheep ... ... ... ... ... 20,710 2,925 14;840 . , - Calves... ... ... ... ... ...105 43 Pigs ~, ~, ~„ „, ,„ ~,410 310 SUPPLIZEI ON SALE, March 7, 1853.—Beasts, 4,407; sheep, 16,140 ; calves, 148 ; pigs, 165. March 8, 1 852.—Beasts, 3,874; sheep, 21,900; calves, 138; pigs, 380. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Our markets aro tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with most descriptions of malt. The general de mand is far from activ e , y e t we k ayo scarce l y any c h ange to notice in the quotations. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, interior 3 0 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prime large 3 8 3 10 do. small 4 0 4 4 Fork, large ,3 0 3 8 s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3'' 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., prime 3 10 4 4 `Veal 3 8 4 8 Pork, small 3 10 4 4 • BOROUGH HOP. Last week's imports of hops into London were 71 bales from Ostend, and 209 from New York. Our market is very inactive for all kinds of hops, the prices of which rife about stationary. Mid and East Kont pockets, 141 108 to 211 Os per cwt. ; Weald of Kent ditto, 141 to 161; Sums. ditto, 141 to 151.; American ditto (in bond), 7/ to 01. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since our last report, very moderate supplies of potatoes have appeared on sale in this market. Generally, the demand is in s sluggish state, on the following terms York Regents, 110 a to 120 s; Kent and Essex, 105 s to 1103; Scotch do., 100 s to 110 s; reds, 80s to 955; middling, 70s to 80s ; blues, 80s to 90s; Lincoln, 100 s to 110 s, per ton. WOOL. The wool sales are now concluded. About 34,000 bales were actually disposed of, and prices showed a decline of from 01d to ld per lb. compared with the former sales. The following rates have been paid in the past week : Sydney—clean sheep's, is 2d to 2s Old; lambs', is 31d to 2s 4d ; skin, is Oid to is 6(1; locks, is 9id to is 6d. Port Philip—clean sheep's, is id to 2s Od ; lambs', is 2d to 2s 2d ; skin, 101 d to is B.id ; pieces, is ld to is 3id ; grease, bid to 111 d. Van Diemen'sLand- -clean sheep's, is 3d to is Bid ; lambs' is 21d to 2s Od ; skin, is to is 4d; locks, Od to is lid ; grease, 10d to ls. Cape—clean sheep's, 8d to is 5d ; grease, 6d to 11d. Australian — clean sheep's, is 3*l to 2s ; slips, Od to is 4d ; pieces, lOid to is 4d ; grease, bid to lOid. South Australian—clean sheep's, is 2ld to is 7d; grease, is 01d to is id. East India—sheep's, 3id to 7dd. Mogaclore—sheep's, 60d to 7i. Turkey—sheep's, 2d to 6-}d. Danish—sheep's, 4id to 51d per lb. There is little or nothing doing in the private contract market, and most kinds of wool aro offering on, lower terms. Last year's imports amounted. to 189 bales from Buenos Ayres, 234 from Gibraltar, 1,751 from Algoa Bay, 193 from Geelong, 112 from Trieste, 383 from Bom bay, 380 from Port Adelaide, and 985 from Port Philip. The following are the current rates of English wool : Combing skins, lld to is id ; short-shorn sorts, Od to is 3d ; Down and fleeces, is Odto is Old; ewes fleeces, Is to is 0.3 d ; wether fleeces, is to is ld ; Down togs, 111.1 to is • combing fleeces, is to Is Oid; half-bred hoggs,ls Od to Oid ; Leicester fleeces, lld to is Od ; Kent fleeces, is Od to is Old ; flannel wool, is Od is 2d ; blanket wool, 7d to is per lb. SEEDS. We have an improved demand for tares, at fully last week's prices. For linseed aid cakes we hare only a me. derate inquiry, on former terms. Clover and trefoil are held at full quotations. In all other seeds very little is doing. Turnip,White, per bush. 22s to 25s Swede •• •• —8 Aftst.ard, 8r0wn.... .. 12s 14s White, aew•••••• 8s lOs rares,Winter,uew.... 1 ls 12s Old•• •• • • • • .... •• 93 10s Canary,per quarter .. 443 54s Rye grass.• •• •• • • •• 223 26s Clover,ltedEng. (cwt.) sns 643 White •• •• 75d Foreign Red ...• .. 463 603 White.... 54s 75s Trefoil, new ...• 241 291 Carraway . ..• .. 44; 46s Coriander.. • • •. .. 16s ISs llempseed, per quarter 841 56s Linseed, Eng. Sowing— 72s 75s Crushing •••• • • •• 661 70s Baltic ••••.. • • .. —s —s Odessa .• ••• • • • 644 68s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English ... 01 13 Os Foreign,por ton 11/ Osi2T Co; ißape Cakes, pr ten 610 s 6 , 108 Rapeseed, lievr,prlst 33 'l3: 35. Os TALLOW. Owing to the prospect of peace with Russia,four market is excessively heavy, and a considerable fall has taken place in the quotations since Monday last. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot, is selling at 49s to 50s per cwt. There is nothing doing for homeward delivery. Town tallow, 82s net cash. Rough fat, 2s 101 d per Sibs. 1851. 1 1852. 1 1853. Stock this day ...... Price of Y. C I Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Jnnel Erk.Of Tom ••••••• 1854. 1 1855. 39,612 49,344 ; 37,818 35,702 36,610 185 9d to 358 9d 44s 3d to 635 3d , c 1 49s Od —8 Od to —Bod 44s 6d —8 Od to 508 04 1,737 , 2,160 1,802 1,378 1,417 77,822 87,754 80.601 80,160 64,214 i 24 278 2,664 101 2,516 91,916 100,564 77,791 92,511 64,824 894 6d 1 a9l 6.1 44 9d 081 ag 54 : 84 9} 38 H i 82i n 21 i 1 5 39 i 49 50 494 18 19i MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES. Tait's Edinburgh Journal sustains its improved character. It has so me c l ever p o liti ca l ar ti c l es , and some interesting papers on literary topics. Among the latter the second part of " Reading Raids" may be mentioned. The _National Miscel lany is of a more serious and reflective character. Among the subjecta in the present number are Naval acid Military Arrangements, and Emigra tion.: Much ability is generally displayed in this magazine. Hogg's Instructor contains its usual variety. The continuation of " Sister Anne," by the author of " Ethel," is not the least attractive feature. Macphail's Edinburgh. Ecclesiastical Journal is, as its name implies, chiefly devoted to the consideration of theological and similar topics. —Slia7:pe's Lond on M agaz i ne h as severa l very in teresting tales —among them ono by the pleasing writer who has given us the history of Mary Powell, and the continuation of " Harry Cover dale's Courtship," which is also appearing in monthly parts.—The Illustrated London. Magazine numbers among its contributors the Hon. Mrs., Norton, Fanny Fern, Horace Mayhew, Captain Mayne Reid, and many other well-known names. An interesting account of the early adventures of the potat o i s g i ven .—Home Thoughts is a little serial of average merit.—Le Follet has, as usual, four graceful plates, but the literary portion scarcely deserves mention.—The Governess, a re pertory of female education, gives the rudiments of many branches of instruction.—We must not omit to mention that Knight's English Cyclopceduc is continued with its usual ability. The Art-Journal.—An article by Mrs. Merri field, " On Design as applied to Ladies' Work," is continued, and is likely to be of service in explod ing those daring incongruities of design which young ladies sometimes perpetrate. Francis Danby, A.R.A., is the subject of an interesting notice under the head of " British Artists." The notice is illustrated by four exquisite engrav ings by J. G. Nicholls, from Danby's cele brate pictures, " The Passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea," " The Contest of the Lyre and Pipe in the Valley of Tempe," " The Opening of the Sixth Seal," and " Thu Enchanted Island." W. Fairholt, F.S.A., contri butes a noticeable paper on " Albert Durer, his Compatriots, and his Times," with illustrations from original sketches by the author. Among the remaining papers may be pointed out " Co louring Statues," a subject quite apropos at the present time ; " Nomenclature of Pictorial Art," by J. B. Pyne, and a "Memory of Mary Russell Mitford," written with a just appreciation of the genius and the virtues of the deceased. The larger engravings consist of " The Virgin Mother," by Dyce, engraved by Tremen ; " The Windmill," from the picture iu the Royal Collec tion., engraved by Prior, quite a gem in its way, and The Rescue," engraved by A. Roffe, from a drawing of the medal, executed by W. Wyon, R.A., for the Liverpool Shipwreck and Hu mane Society. The anatomical development of the principal figure is worthy of praise. Among the lesser engravings are examples of useful designs, including specimens of the celebrated pottery of Bernard Palissy, a Chinese enamelled vase, ch., to which must be added three admirably-worked illustrations of the encaustic tiles of Messrs. Maw and Co. The illustrations are executed by the , process known as block colour printing. SPORTING NOTES. THE COVENTRY MEETING. Time will only permit me briefly to refer o the races to be decided at Coventry to-morrow. Those appoint. ments aro the only bona fide " fixtures " which have not been marred by the frost. I shall not attempt to determine the probabilities or calculate the comparative chances, for, at so early a period in the season, when horses have, with few exceptions, been stopped in their work, such a task would merely resolve itself into guess work. The programme contains five items, of which three are legitimate event, and two are devoted to tbo jumpers. A somewhat large field may be brought out t) contest the Craven Steeplechase. Old Oscar looked in most blooming health and condition when I saw him last week at Oundla, and he seemed to go free and well. Should he start, I shall expect to see him achieve an easy success. People who intend to "assist" at the gathering at Aintree on Wednesday will have bard work to reach Liverpool to enjoy breathing time before the commence ment of the proceedings. The decision of Admiral Rona recently promulgated with respect to the invalidity of the engagements entered into for the different stakes has created some little confusion, but its effect, bowever, sound as that decision may be, will be rather negative in its operation. There will be the "added money" to be run for ; the only difficulty -vhich will exist will be with re spect to the liability or non-liability for forfeits. Recent movements in the Turf Market have confirmed the opinions which were published in the The Sew of this day week in reference to the Grand National. I still hold to the belief that, if her owner be " on," Miss Mowbray will be the winner. In her default I shall stick to Needwood. To-morrow, however, I will enter into a re-discussion of the probabilities ; caution inducing me to await the " Doings at the Corner" this afternoon. March 5. A FRESH MAN. SPORTING' INTELLIGENCE. OUNDLE STEEPLECHASES. SATURDAY. The SELLING STEEPLECHASE Of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 25 added. Optional selling weights. About two miles. Mr. Clark's Lord of the Isles (1001.), aged, lOst 71b (Mr. G. Walker) I Mr. J. Clarke's Cheddington (2501.), 6 yrs, 9st 121 b . . (Gammidge) 2 _ . • The following also ran :—Ben Lomond (1501.), aged, llst ; Quickstep (60/.), aged, lOst ; Burns (501.), aged,. 9st 121 b. Betting-7 to 4 agst Quickstep, sto 2 each agst Lord of the Isles and Ben Lomond. A close race in. Won by a short neck. Quickstep was a bad third; Eurus last. Ben Lomond fell at the brook, and went no further. The winner was sold by auction to Mr. Newcome Mason for 135 guineas. The WELTER STAREg of 20 soya each, h ft, with 100 added, 16st each, certain allowances, gentlemen riders, &c., about three miles, was won byMr.Brown's Harry, aged, beating Slapdash, Mustapha,`tang Malt. Betting—Even on Harry, 3 to 1 agst Malt. Wort easily by four lengths. Mustapha and Malt were pulled up some distance from home. FRIDAY. The FARMERS' and TRADESMEN'S STEEPLE CEASE. Mr. T. Price's mare by Spanish Jack came in first o but was disqualified in consequence of having been in a " trainer's stable," contrary to the conditiong. The race was therefore given to Huntsman, who ran second. BATH AND SOMERSET RACES.—By mistake, in No . of the sheet calendar, it is announced that the entries► for the City Cup clotle on the 6th May, instead of Taea day next, the 6th of March, on which day the Somerset. shire Stakes also close. NOTTINGAMS RACES.—To avoid clashing with the Liverpool meeting, which now stands postponed Wednesday next, the first day at Nottinghativia altered. to Thursday instead of Wednesday. A Love SENTENCE.—The effect of the death of the Emperor of Russia, and the unopposed accession, which we have elsewhere announced, of the Cesarewitech Alexander, upon the present and the future if Europe, must be, till events afford a positive solution, the upper most subject of speculation in the mind of every man of every nation who has a stake, however trifling, In the wrest or progress of civilisation—so widely attended were the relations which that restless and scheming spirit established throughout the earth, so numerous were the Sovereigns and so varied the races over. who a deeply calculated system of policy, unvaryingly _ pur sued, and, under all circumstances, kept in view, h ad enabled the Czar Nicholas to acquire remarkable in. fluence.—Morning Post. The Echo du Paciquc gives the following details of the successor of the late King of the Sandwich Islands, whose death was recently announced. " Prince Alex. ender Liholiho, the successor of Kamehameha 111., un. der the name of Kamehameha IV., is 24 years Of age. He is well educated and intelligent. Be has travelled in Europe and in the United States, and speaks 'Eng. fish fluently, having received his education in that country, The new king of the Sandwich Islands ob stinately opposed all idea of alienating the Hawaian so. vereignty, and, as the treaty of annexation must receive his approbation, he will be the grand cause of the-failure of the project." . - SAMBRE 41 , 7 D MEESE RAILWAY.—At a meeting of thii Sambre and Meuse Railway Company, on Thursday, a resolution was passed for raising ten per cent, on the capital amounting to 62,0001., for the purchase of tolling stock y by A prefervoe diTidelad of 6 per "lit! ~_: ~ y .;. ~_~:. .z <,: 16i 10 :31A 20 20 6 20 73 3 b7i 111 i 50 30 i 123 50 3 13 it 12i i I' 12~ 65 I