The Sun. — London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

street• ye the .;poia port verniv ell i I hoistelo hauled view oson, the Tr other si held 5 ? ;elves 11 , 1 E ev erY s o perfef, ir)11111 10 ‘ , .nt Ins Etter a° of 0 1 ' 5 ;8 and wall. decks• ch of p 11 be 0 ;1 ih wet' ms, . Neve' magin ls to o° 4 f our glad t°' / nua le in the e 1 r. Bu r y t le er 11 , 1A.1 i ilst fia i am e' C. Yb , forlora..., ' stne.' a j ; ,! v a s o t : mcle d i) 1 1 ' l a nd Irkee g:1;;I is p We I D,4 A T.L. , n Jury.) by the 1 4: , 3 of Zet l3ll6 v, houselo6/ were for [r. Beville the case of Lady nba r, piece of • leY Cad :o no kyil MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday closed firmly, at Friday's rates. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales (3,000 of which were taken on speculation, and 1,000 for export). The Railway Share Market closed heavily, and prices were considerably lower. In Mark Lane to-day there is no alteration. The advices by the Africa, from New York, re port rather more activity in the demand for money, 8 7 1 t he last weekly return of the City Banks d show ed an increase in the discounts of 991,288 j u „ ars• The sp ec ie was augmented 26,597 dollars, large receipts were expected from California. " fair business was doing in foreign fabrics, and lalPorts being moderate prices were supported. The letters from Australia by the ship Lightning are to the 10th April, the voyage having been per formed in 80 days from Port Philip. The accounts respecting the markets are decidedly better, but the writers of the Melbourne price currents dis tinctly warn shippers on this head not to be mis led, inasmuch as the demand was due entirely to the necessity of getting supplies up to the diggings While the roads were practicable, and would fall off inamediately afterwards, not to be resumed for two or three months. The vexed question about the gold diggers' licences seems likely' to receive a pacific solution, as the Commissioners recommended th e abolition of the licence fee, and an imposition Of an export tax, a measure advocated months since. The ship Seringapatam, from Melbourne, does not bring later dates than March 18. She has on board 15,865 ounces of gold and 234 bales of wool, besides what the passengers bring. The Gipsy Bride, arrived at Liverpool from Mel bourne, has accounts of April 11, and 40,000 ounces of gold on freight. Advices from the Crimea state that enormous supplies of provisions, ammunition, & - c., were being forwarded from Perekop to Simpheropol, and that the army in Sebastopol was provided for the winter. The Stock Market is flat this morning, with scarcely any business doing. Several circumstances hav e combined to induce caution. The death of ii4ord Raglan, and the small knowledge the public L a " Of the character of his successor, are naturally cLroutustances to check dealing, and then we are on the eve of the French loan, and notwithstand ing the large arrivals of bullion this morning, gold to °l3leamount may be temporarily withdrawn from us. Seeingeo the excessive supply here, we should not ac count this this an evil. The Revenue Return has not made fa -c " ii nPression. On the whole, it is probably as Th -v°llr able as could be expected, but it establishes more Conclusively than ever the fact of our ex- P e hditure fully absorbing both the increased tax ation and the loan, rendering more borrowing in evitable. Consols have been 91 to Aat the com- Mencement of business, but are since 901 to 91. Th e New 3 per Cents. have been 921 to 1, and. the Reduced 914 to 91i. The Omnium has been at 4 i premium. Exchequer Bills are 19s. to 225. Premium, for those at 2d. The foreign securities have been very dull, and Turkish Bonds rather lower, namely, 81i to 82. Mexican are dull at 21A. Brazilian Old Stock has been quoted 100 i. Nothing has been done in Spanish. Sardinian 5 per Cents. have been marked 85i. Dutch 4 per Cents. are steady at 95. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7; Mexi can, 214 to 211 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three per Cents., 49 to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 42 to 44 ex div. ; Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 181 ex div. ; ditto 3 per Cents., 361 to 37i ex div. ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 4i ; ditto Passive, 4 to 4/. The railway meetings announced are the follow- lng :__. Central Company. Date. Penins. of Portugal July 16, tisbon. Place. Cork and Bandon e July 4. I,:aneat Western of Canada... July 4, London Tavern. 9Ahlre and Yorkshire... July 12, Manchester. V L o ndon and Gre enw i c h . J u ly 10, Coleman-street. o ndon, Tilbu, &c July 3, London Tavern. Manchester,anchester, Sh eff. and Linc Aug. 1, Manchester. .4,5%1 Swedish July 5, Gottenburg. ' u anles Haven July 2, London Tavern. The amount of " calls" due this month upon railways is 1,749,0971., of which 80,000/. is upon the Central of Portugal, 209,0001. upon the East I llcli sz, 1,060,0001. upon th e Paris and Lyons, m ' 40 ,0001. upon the Cherbourg, 122,5001. upon the B ciude, an d 140,0001. upon the Western of France. It is not to be assumed, however, that more than a stall proportion of the French " calls" will fall UPon English holders. There is a heavy market generally for the Eng lish Railway Shares, but the dealings are very limited. The decline, however, in most cases is not more than to per cent. The Foreign lines are neglected, and Great Western of Canada are weaker. Mines rule dull. Banks firm, and also the Mis cellaneous Shares. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. (,Prom► the Oticial List.) Rn.iness done 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914 New 3 per Cent. Annuities India, Bonds, .RlOro Ditto, under £lOOO 34 Consols ?or Account, 10th July • 91 90 1 i l 8 7 - Ointrium Exchequer Bills, 2M. I 2d. £1000 22 I 22 19 £5OO I 2 - 0 19 Small . 22 6 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS PAY. ErniHan Bonds 5 per Cent. ._ lOOl 1.1 korican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent — Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 7l Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Turkish Bonds, 6 pmcent — Ditto for the Accognt Bli 2 i DiVidends on the above payable in London. batch Exohanae,,2A per Cent. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cals. Certifieates .......... 95 eh , ' THREE O'CLOCE. . Consols Ditto for tho Account , 904 1 x d LLOYD'S SITIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 2.—Wind this day at non, W. ; light breeze, and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, July I.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—ln disna (s. transport 147), from Constantinople, and left for Southampton. Sailed—Barham, for Madras and Calcutta; Csndia (s. transport 213), for Southampton. Off port— Queen, from Calcutta. CowEs, July I.—Wind, S.W. Arrived--Louisa, from Trinidad de Cuba. DOVER, July I.—The Paris et Londres (s.) was in con tact yesterday off F o lk s t one w ith a D utc h b arque, an d went down ; master and five men landed here ; the re mainder of tho French crew got on board the Dutch barqu e . FAL MOUTH, July I.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Frey, from Rio Janeiro ; Prospero, Porto Rico ; William 111., Matanzas. for London. Off port—Undaunted, from — , and sa iled GRIMSBY, July 1 . --The Mermaid, of Guernsey, stranded near Donna Nook, Feb. 8, was got off this morning, a nd placed on the Zu d. with considerable dam a ge. SHIELDS, June ;Bl—:Sailed —Cornelius Smidt, for China. CLYDE, Jly u 30 .rrived—N ean d er, from Hantsport, U.S. Siled—Glenroy, for Melbourne ; City of London, Calcutta. PENANG, May 18.—The P r i nce Arthur, from Singapore to London, put in here on the 12th inst., making 15 inches of water per hour; discharged abo u t 1 50 tons of cargo, stopped the leak, and put to sea yesterday. HONG KONG, May 10.— The Countess of Seafield, from Shanghai to London, which was on shore on the Prata Shoals, March 2, and abandoned the following day, has been got off and towed up to Whampoa by a steamer. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday lifornin, Wind, N.W. Arrived —Jean Baptiste, from Santander. Off port—Mayflower, for New Orleans Lebago, for Mobile ; Governor Langdon, Mobile. QUEENSTOWN, June 30. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Baltimore; from Constantinople ; Ocean Gem, Alexandria ; Vorsworth, Trieste ; Albertine,Hayti ; Vicar of Br a y, A r i ca ; Cheviot, Akyab. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.2 a.m. il:1 7 Wind S. B. ; tide, one hours' flood ; weather fine. Arrived, July I—Amazon, from Memel ; Father Ma v, Guernsey. '" x rived, July 2—Providence, from Guernsey. K Saile d—British Tar, fo r th e M aur iti us ; D o l p hi n, Hong ong. DEAL, Monday, 9.52 a.m. rind, S.Vir.; li ht. " Ise(l 7 - Qtleen j frin4 CalouttN for London. .~-- service ttely on r, the c ier, in e reS ;aged ti nd Gun e town Ind had a bad w 4 hip's ser yship, w l3 ' Mrs. PO 111 at the re9 l •d's table, ) her cou o er she wg , and F fl. She I room, id to )u," ant 'Whhti t this recei' ave been Lge unfit !fendant the intN the stew made, ires to hat the, ds. P 1 ich, hoi I by the URT. t. n opeec li I Mayor!, ?I-man V il/ ' ;ley, She r zr Sheriff the naio ury,, l' elapsed 6 ' four pri Bl3 ! were two .4 first .ng caus ell i ind therilefi a the # 1 t of bet f , violen ce ; elibere o l) The ,cd. )man 0 tirJ " 0 M i iurture , !sal of r cours e Ise ttlig lil lordsbiP s of the ed with 7ell dese l ght not 1 7to CO he 1132‘tv ,,i it to be r ° that tbs. so me st rs PA iTlor ;ood tbAS for cr e 1;, anti hi° of the ' ought ill °riling?, re court almost most I at the frog• tit!: ide at"" ,he pr lB°P ; b e en OP whole of magi° one. I the r lough th e sed of. that the Ilogi6"°„ 3 were 25 St. 20 it. 4/ 28 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. SHARE MARKETS (THIS LAY.) B,AiLWI_YS. RAILWAY!. Mold= Pric this day. BIIR11101.1; dont this day. 23 - 25 41 - 4i ••• . 8i -8/ 131 -12 i 151 -- 181 84 -- 7i 90 - 92 62 - 624 - 14,1 9 - 11 .• • - ..„ -- ...(1 14, - 15 4 1 12 - 124 32 - 36 23 - 25 76 - 77 57 - 59 8 i - 9 :! 19 - 20 70 72 924 - 93:1 75 - 77 '26 - 128 99 - 101 66 67} 73 - 73 8 - 9 8 - 9 801 - 814 71 8 00 102 00 101 par p id 82a —83 a 8a 76 ,, 7a 611-1 25 -25 i 72 - 73 43 - g 5 9 - 7 1 - 50 - 52 30 - 31 731; 6i 61 Sac 13t 50 51 49 51 d par — 1, 5k — 91 , f 64 7 1 d 'at 27i !Oa 105 67 69 46 48 )3i 14:1 61 611. 29 30 4 2 2(1 par 39 - 41 ••• ....... 4i - 5 19/ 204 34 - 4.4 21 - 23 7 - 8 • • • '''' ...... kmbg. Nottng. B. andlasto. Sunct... lel fast & Ila Woli -Stour Va11cy. .... , •. Lanesl.. dt Chonhife Junct 10. Chezh. & flick., £5O and 225 Cony. Do., Myth &Trio origina 425 (ised. at £45,. 3ristol and Exeter `,;faledonian. Oarrnarthen and Car digan laht;ster 4 Holyhead. cork and . Bandon Cork, Black, Itt Cornwall Ci ` , ff Junction DuOlindtßelfastJunc Dundee Perthdabor (leen Junction....., DO. N'S.; East Avzlian.., Eastern Counties.... itastern Union, A Stock .. B, Story Do., New A ..... .'.ast Lancashire , 7.dinburgh d.z Glasgov Edinb. and Peebles Ellin. Plitt & Dux de Forth Ett Clyde Jus Furness Do. Extension Glasgow At S. Weston (treat Northern Do., A. 5t0ck....,... Do., B. Stock 'R. Sth. &West (Ire.: ilreat Western D:). Stour Val Rai Gua. Irish South-Eastern, Ti a:master & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds__ LAncash.andYorksl , D a., Wet. Riding Ilia Liv. Liv.Cersby. &Southpt London & Blackwal Laud. Bright & S.Cst Loud, and N. Westn Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh. ,M&B C Do. Eighths London andS. Westr , Do., £5O Do., £4O Ludndrry& Col oral ne Lndndrry. & Enn:ak. Manch . She f. Ist Linchi Do. i Shares, No. 1, Do., Man. & Lin. 13n. Midland I )o. Birmng. &Derb Midi& G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Nwpt.Aberg. & Ilrfd 'Cowry & Enniskiller , Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk .... Northn.Counties North British..., North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., i A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Burch Do. Leeds ......... Do. York North London Do. Now LlO N.&S.Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire., North Western.., Y. & S. Westrn. June, Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Central SoottishMidland Shropshire Union , South Devon South Eastern Soutli Wales 9. Yiksh. 5c Riv. Due Do Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darlin , Stc?,kten Tai Vale Do. £lO shares Do. Pref., No. 1.._ Thames Haven Dock and Railway Trlverstone & Lanes , Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriel West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace (West London Wimbledn & Croydon 234 621 1 FOREIGN. Antwerp&itottnqsan Belgian Eastn. June Reziers to Graissesaa , Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c. Do. Es knsion Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CiadaA is Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran , Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 por cent. Do. Extensions Do. do Great Luxernbour Constituted Shares Do. Obligations I Gt.Westernof Canad Shares Do. Bds., payables 7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56... Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without',, option Hamilton & Toront' Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Bask Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref Lyons and Geneva ...1 Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and ErquelinuE guar. 33 p. e. & red. at 229. air. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy.B.drAms.Shs ' NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonda Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen.— ParisCaen &Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse_ Do. 54 p. cent. Prof, Scindt; - Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do Si per c. Pref Western of France Wept. of Switzerland Wksbaden Zeal and 8 - 9k 2$ 2$ 3 - 2 2i - 2i 4(11 342 —34 a 8 9 25 —26 3i 3ir 6 17i 18. 65 - 67 94 - 96 3 i 5 - 6ip - 6 - 6 4 sa 21i - 22 100 -- 102 106' -- 109 112 -- 114 104 106 221 - 22i' 110 - 112 - si, - 1 - lip 2i 3 p 5 7 2 - 3 6i - - 351 -85 Z 12/ -- 13/ R- 9 1 2sa ksiipl 45 - 47 46 - 48 24i 25i 21. - 22 - ifi4 - 23 - 2ip ... - pm 3i - 4 - 10 p ii 1. - 19 11 knstralasia 11 British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 11 British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 10 , City 5 Colonial 10 Commercial of Lond Al English Scottish end Australian Chart 611 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New London and County London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland.. Now South Wales.... Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold hap Co._ South Australia U n ion of Australia Do. New (NOU 4t LO7 (19? t.p • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 84 - 85 65i CGAxd I d fp - 5A - 6 y 174 131 19 90 d 36 —• 33 - 4948 • 11, '... . . ••• .. •.. 35 - 8G 38 - 39 80 -- 51 ••• ''''' *I. 38 -- 40 74 75 8 - ••• 100 all 425, WO 100 100 3 100 all :31 le 17 all all 1 too 100 too too all 1.00 21 all l' 1715.!' all all 10 12} 12 92? 3 76 1271 1001 66i 7 811 I 101 101 11001 / 26 51 i 84 7 44 3 2i 31 24 11 83i 504 50 12i i 27i 8 7i 103 181 17k pli i h xd XII 351 6 5i 19i 193 4 3T 7 4 :i i ?i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1855. LINES I,: . j.SED •.T FIXED RENTALS. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) SPORTING NOTES. Company (towing Pr COB this ch 4%. CORN EXCHANGE. NEWMARKET AND CARLISLE. The leading country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, yet the demand for all kinds ruled very inactive, at barely stationary prices. Bar ley and oats realised full quotations, but all other articles )mmanded very little atiention. Few turates regret their long and tedious journey te Newcastle. They foUnd ample employment, for the racing was interesting and important. The proceedings too were is certain respects efficiently conducted, but " administrative reform " was sorely required in the weighing department. The Clerk of the Scales scarcely understood his business, and lacked determination in the discharge of his duties. People too 'were indiscri minately admitted into the weighing-room, and the. "many queer charaaters" " monching " about caused jockeys to keep a sharp eye to their "properties." A trick was played just before the race for the Gold Cup, which was fortunately discovered in time to prevent its taking the intended effect. Basham weighed for King of Trumps, and was pronounced "all right ;" on mount ing he received a "hint " which induced him again to go scale, when to his astonishment be discovered he was about 41bs overweight ! The meeting was brought to a termination amidst a " stunning row." Cardsharper beat Whitelock by half a length for the Corporation Plate: On retnreing to scale, however, Clement, the rider of Cardsharper, was found to be 21b?. over weight. The scene of riot and confusion which ensued may be easily imagined when I state that "Kit" was present. First, it was stoutly maintained that Clement had de-. Blared his weight. This the clerk of the scales as stoutly denied. The case was subsequently investigated, and the stakes were very, properly given to the owner of Whitelock. The last advises from New York bring a further decline of 12 cents, in the value of flour. In grain very little was doing. The near Continental markets have been inactive. Up to our market, last week, the receipts of English grain were very moderate. From abroad we received 16,508 quarters of wheat, 2,347 barley, 30,516 oats, 525 rye, 3,200 beans, 2,320 peas, 730 tares, 2,174 linseed, 1,837 rapeseed, 95 mustard seed, 29 sundry seeds, and 2,217 sacks of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market today, coastwise and by land carriage, were on a very moderate scale, yet tolerably good for the time of year, and in excellent condition. The show of samples was far from extensive,. though it included several parcels left over from last .week, and the'demand for nearly all de scriptions was rather flat. However, factors almost gene rally succeeded in obtaining the prices of Monday last for both red and white qualities. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on offer, fresh as well as ex granary. Millers evinced very little disposition to purchase any kind ; nevertheless, im porters were firm, and the few transactions reported were at prices equal to those of Monday last. In floating cargoes very little business was transacted. With both home-grown and foreign barley we were fairly supplied. The trade ruled very inactive, but no change took place in the quotations. So little was doing in 'malt that the currencies were almost nominal. Mr. Mather's luck has evidently turned, and his good fortune has created considerable gratification. The race for the Northumberland Plate requires little comment. They who saw it state that Vindex appeared winning in a canter at the distance, and that had he gone up to Whitelook at that point his success would have been re duced to a certainty, When "called upon" he dis played his usual currislaiess and swerved, Young Wal ters rode Whitelock with admirable tact. Deter mined not to "give a chance away," he kept his horse going throughout, and his light weight brought him home. Rylstone, who had been very "fishy" in the market several days before the race, was withdrawn, and Blooming Heather, who had been much fancied, did not put in an appearance for one of her engagements. dorcebus, too, was an absentee—a circumstance which excited some surprise, for there were two stakes which on paper appeared certainties for him. I may refer with some satisfaction to the correctness of my anticipatory remarks published in The Sure of the 25th ult. I then wrote in reference to the Northumber land Plate as under:— The show of English and Irish oats was small, of foreign extensive. The trade was in a sluggish state, but we have no change to notice in prices. We hail a dull sale for both beans and peas, and the quo tations were barely supported. The flour trade was dull, al CURRENCY PEI': 1511 Wheat—Essex It Kent, Rod new 67s to 78a Ditto.. •• ........ old —s —s Ditto, White new 823 BGs Ditto.. •• .... old 85s 88s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 68s 813 Ditto new •• •• •• 68s 803 Rye—Old ••......•• —s —s New ...• 42s 443 Barley—Grinding s ... 30s 33s Malting . .. 33 343 Chevalier—. . • 353 3Gs M dt—Suffolk and Nor folk ...... 62s 67s Crown .•• •• •• ........ 58s 60s Kingston and Ware 68s 70s last week's currency. 'ERIA.L MEA.SURE. Malt—Chevalier .. •• 70s to 71s Oats—Yorkshire and Lineolnsk., Feed 26s 30s Potato •• .. 28s 31s Youghal and Cork Black 25s 29s • Cork, White ..... 26s 30s Scotch, Feed. •• •• 27s 30s Beans—Tick .... 41s 44s Pigeons ...... •• • • 433 4 7s Peas—Grey .•••• • • • • 353 388 Maple ....•.....• 38s 40s W1iite........... 39s 45s Boilers .......... 43s 46s Flour—Town-mado..- 65s 70s Suffolk .......... 525 56s Stocktn lk Norfolk 51s 55a METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Tho total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 5,681 head. In the corresponding week in 1851 we received 6,179 ; in 1853, 6,246 ; in 1852, 6,676; in 1851, 4,810 ; in 1850, 2,747 ; in 1819, 3,974 ; in 1848, 3,233 ; and in 1817, 3,282. " Of the outsiders my preference is for Whitelock, in consideration of his easy victory at the late meeting at Shrewsbury. On a careful comparison of the chances I am induced to assign the foremost places to VINDEX, BLOOMING HEATHER, and COURTNEY. Should an outsider be destined to pull through, George Mather may give the fielders a "good turn" with Whitelock. His success would be hailed with general satisfaction, for no man on the turf is more respected. His ill luck with his horses is, however, notorious, but he may yet experience The truth of the old proverb about the long lane that has Sao turning." Blooming Heather did not start ; Vindex was second, Courtney fourth, and the " outsider," Whitelock, won ! The meeting which took place at Cheltenham was comparatively unimportant. Stevens had the " best of the good things," Hercules proving a capital stalking horse for him. The July Meeting will commence to-morrow. An ave rage supply of sport is promised, and we all know what that is. The July Stakes excites little interest. At present my fancy is for Intimidation ; Cerv,a, I am in formed, is not expected. Should Illuminator start, I have received so favourable a report of him that I shall be inclined to entertain expectations of his chance. If sound, Tumbler will win the Midsummer Stakes. In his absence Hazel may pull through. The Chester. field Stakes requires no discussion. The success.of Bird in-Hand appears to be a foregone conclusion. The sport at "merry Carlisle," in quantity at least, is likely to be satisfactory. Twelve .items are distributed over the programme, and for those stakes already closed good entries have been obtained. Of the ten nominations to the Corby Castle Stakes, the Heir of Linne seems most attractive. For the Prince of Walea's Plate, Long staff's "two"—Caliph and Corin—are entitled to notice. Van Winkle stands next in my estimation. For the Cumberland Plate I am inclined to select Rataplan and Courtney. Should Patience not go to Worcester she may win the Lottery Haaidicap. The next noteworthy names among the entries are Sir Rowland Trenchard and The Assayer. For the Stewards' Plato I shall stand on Little Jack and Billy Richardson. On Wednesday I will endeavour to indicate the win ners for Worcester. A FRESH MAN. July 2. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( Prom the l'imes of this day.) Surely at the present moment we have got real trou bles on our hands in sufficient abundance without solicit ing, in mere wantonness, any further causes of anxiety here at home. Yesterday afternoon there was a most serious disturbance in Hyele-Park, and the worst of the matter is that the sympathies of nine-tenths of the edu cated population are on the side of the rioters. The pretext for the assemblage was of course this most absurd and ridiculdus bill of eortil Robert Grosvenor for what he calls "the better observance-of the Sabbath." The result was just what might have been expected,— that yesterday afternoon Hyde-Park was crowded by a vast multitude, determined in some way or another to make their voicss heard and their wishes known upon this preposterous attempt on the part of a small, of a very "small minority, to impose their 'bigotry and prejudices upon the mass of the community in the form of law. This was no vulgar mob. For the most part the people were decently at tired, in their " Sunday" clothing, and were exactly taken from that class of ;persons who habitually resort on the Sunday afternoon to Hampstead, Wimbledon, and other suburban localities of the like kind for the sake of a little fresh air and innocent recreation. As the scene was described by eye-witnesses, weilnigh " every a man had decent coat up,sri his back." The police regu lations of the day were of the worst description. The police made the worst of the bad regulations, and in every way exceeded th6r duty. This will • sufficiently appear from a mere state& nent of the evils which could by any possibility have' been anticipated, and the precautionary measures which were taken to resist them. What the evils were we know from our experience of last Sumday. The people hooted and groaned at every carriage which passed along the drive near the Serpentine, and exhorted the occu pants to "Go to church," in place of desecrating the Sabbath by inhaling the fresh air of the park on the Sunday afternoon. Last week was any mischief done? Who was hurt? Was a carriage—was a horse injured? The truth is, that no injurykvas done to anybody, and therefore it was perfectly absurd to plan against the crowd a campaign of a far more vigorous description than any of which we have yet had notice in the Crimea. Six hundred police constables were directed upon the Serpentine. The attacking force was dexterously con cealed in and about the Humane Society's premises—the reserve was located in the powder magazine. This place was also prepared for the reception of the prisoners who might be captured in the course of the operations. Here they might be confined with their broken heads to meditate upon the abilities of Lord Robert Grosvenor and the perfections of Sabatarianisru, as evidenced in their own bloody scalps, until they were forwarded un der escort to Vine-street, or elsewhere, supposing the police to have maintained the communications, despite of indignant ladies and fluttering parasols. Nov, it really cannot but strike an unprejudiced ob server that, although it might require six hundred police men to keep a crowd of a hundred thousand persons in order, yet in all probability six policemen might have prevented any carriage at all from entering the drive, and so all cause of offence would have been removed. The crowd would have strolled about, the younger mem bers of it would have smoked cigars of a stupendous flavour, the ladies would have indulged in pop and gin ger-beer, or sought for yet cooler libations at, Lord Douro's fountain. There would have been some rough joking and a round of well-deserved groans for Lord Grosvenor, and in due time these dis appoined rioters would have returned home. It seemed, how ever, a wiser course in the eyes of our rulers to give to these " high jinks" of the people the dignity of an affair. Carriages were admitted to the Drive, and when, the hooting began the police rushed out from their ambus cades, and made unsparing use of their truncheons on every person within their reach. So vigorous was their onset that the people were driven about in all directions, the constables pursuing, and bitting away right and left. By a very clever manoeuvre, for which the very highest credit is due to the gallant constable in command at that particular point, a portion of the crowd was driven into the Serpentine. To avoid the truncheons some of the baffled foe—as it is reported to us—absolutely took to the water, and endeavoured by swimming to gain the oppo site bank ; but no resource is unknown to British valour. The police had boats ab their service, and the fierce creatures were brought back in triumph to the shore. Need we say that the police were victorious in this hotly-contested affair ? Tranquillity was finally re stored, and we can but express an earnest wish that a medal may be given to every police constable engaged in this spirited affair. On the one side let the inscrip tion be " Serpentine, July 1, 1855 ;" on the other " Lord Robert Grosvenor and the Sabbath unpro faned." Next Sunday we are threatened with a repetition of similar scenes, and probably on repe tition they will be found to be of a more serious nature. Such occurrences as those of yesterday do not take place without leaving much exasperation behind. At the present moment we cannot afford to waste time and attention upon Lord Robert Grosvenor and this Sabbatarian tomfoolery. The people of London don't want a Sunday bill, and there's an end of it. Lord Robert Grosvenor has as much right to force such a measure down their throats against their will as any private individual would hake) to interfere in the ar rangements of his household. We can inform him that while the bludgeon-work was at its heightmu murs and curses against the " aristocracy" were heard, as though they were the cause of this dire confusion. London 4- N. Wut Cale(lon E. Un. E. C at,.Nrup. Calclonba3. qt. Woo Yk. New. & Berm. V.&NIA Do 5. Easton Do Peto Sz Co Norfolk Do 14.&N.W Midid. Stcktou & Darlingt•. En. Coun E. Co ant, Do., Do,, L. & tsr.w. L&Yll 98 - 100 100 - 102 135 - 1~.7 27 - 29 to'i 16 12,E -- 13 ?,3 -- ' , 4 lq' - El 2 21 - 2i 94'- 96 58 - GO 1:5'3 fii 8i - 9 21 - 211 32 - 33 93 - 95 Bus ess this day. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WREN. From "Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Celia. Pigs. Harlingen Rotterdam l6O ... 958 ... 134 101 Dordt — 12 47 Hamburgh....., 109 591 Ton ning — 104 • Bremen Antwerp Kampen ..... 16 ... Amsterdam 46 • •• ...... 287 ... 457 ... - ... 3 t ... 6 - ... 209 ... 51 Total-- 747 ... 3,819 -. 298 ... 683 ... 134 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1854 1,133 3,455 ... 256 ... 921 409 1853 1,087 3,575 390 ~. 807 387 1852 9lB 4,240 438 ... 649 471 1851 337 ... 3,290 593 464 ... 127 1850 498 ... 1,622 ... 193 ... 380 ... 51 We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with foreign stock, the general condition of which was very infer ior. The receipts of beasts from our own grazing districts were but moderate. Compared with several previous, market days there was a decided falling off in their weight. As the attendance of buyers was good the beef trade ruled firm, at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last of fully 2d. per 81bs. A few very prime Scots realised quite 4d. 10d., but the general stop figure for beef was 4s. Bd. per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 2,00 l Scots and shorthorns; from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; and from Scotland 400 horned and polled Scots. There was rather an extensive show of sheep. For most breeds the demand was firmer than on Friday ; neverthe less, it was decidedly inactive at 2d per Blbs beneath the currencies of Monday last. The best old Downs realised 4s 10d per Sibs. For lambs, the supply of which was good, the demand was rather slow at 4d per 81bs beneath the quotations rea lised on this day's se'ennight. The highest figure was 6s per Sibs. We were well supplied with calves, in which a full ave rage business was transacted at ld per Bibs beneath last Monday's prices. Pigs were in good supply, and moderate request on former terms. Per Bibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 PrimeSouthdowu 4 8 410 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, (Sic. 4 0 4 8 Large hogs '3 4 3 8 Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 4 Small pprkers 4 0 4 4 Second quality ...3 6 3 10 1 Suckling calves.. 23 0 30 0 Prime crse.-wilecl.4 2 4 4(Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 Lamb 4s 8d to 6s Od. TOTAL EIIIPPLT. FOREIGN 817PPLT. Beasts .................. 3,760 Beasts.• .• •• •• • • •••• • 713 Sheep • •,... 29.510 1 Sheep .. ••• • • ...... ....... 4 ,320 ........ •• .. 345 Calces... ••• • ..... •• • • •• 271 Pigs.... • • • • •• • • • • •• ..... • 1 3' ;g , •:•• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• •• 530 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, July 3, 1854, and this day, Monday, July 2, 1855. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Joy 3, 1854. (July 2, 1855. 0.. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 613 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 03 8 4 0 Primo largo oxen 4 2 4 614 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c 4 8 5 0,4 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3 6 3 813 2 3 4 Second quality ditto 310 4 2 3 6 4 0 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 814 2 4 4 Prime Southdown ditto 410 5 014 8 410 Lambs 4 8 510 4 8 6 0 Large coarse calves 3 6 4 4 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto ....4 6 410 4 8 5 0 Large hogs 3 0 4 213 4 3 8 Neat small porkers 4 4 4 8 4 0 4 4 Beasts_ ... 3,€08 3,760 Sheep 25,900 29,510 _ . Calves... ~. ... ... ~. ... 429 I 345 Pigs ,„ .., ,„ „. ... ...420 [ 530 Surrrxes ex SALE, July 4, 1853.—Beasts, 4,040 ; sheep and lamb;, 27,000 ; calves, 653 ; pigs, 350. • July 5, 1852.—Beasts, 3,5.68 ; sheep and lambs, 28,470 calves, 501; pigs, 560. NEWGATI AND LEADENHALL. Owing to the prevailing warm weather our markets are very moderately supplied with each kind of meat. The general demand, however, rules very inactive, as follows • Per 81bs by the carcase. _ s. d. s. d..' s. d. s. d. Beef, interior 210 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 6 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 - 8 4 0 Do., prime largo .3 8 3 10 Do., 4 2 4 4 Dr , do. small ....3 10 4 0 1 Veal 3 2 4 4 rurk, large 3 4 3 8 Pork, small 3 10 4 4 Lamb 43 4cl to 5s 4d. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Very moderate supplies of potatoes have come to hand coastwise since Monday last, but the imports have amounted to nearly 300 tons, chiefly new, from the Con tinent and the Channel Nands. The demand is not to say brisk, yet prices are higher. York Regents, 160 s to 1955; Scotch do., 125 s to 150 s; reds and cups, 95 3 t o 135 s per ton. BOROUGH HOP. Very few hops are on sale in our market. How ever, the trade—arising from the favourable accounts re specting the growing bine—is very inactive, at last week's prices. The imports have been only 13 bales from Ham burgh. Mid and East Kent pockets, 141. to 18/. 10s. •; Weald. of Kent ditto, 131. 10s. to 151 Os. ; Sussex ditto, 121. to 131. 10s. WOOL. As the public sales will carnMenee on Thursday next, the amount of business doing in foreign and colonial qua- lities is very limited, yet prices are freely supported; All English wools are brisk, and 'again rather dearer. Last . week's imports were 401 bales from Portland Bay, 50 from Paris, 159 from Hamburgb, 220 from Bombay, 15 from Alexandria, and 35 from Mogadore. The following are the current rates of English wool : South Down flocks, is Odd to is lid ; mixed toga and ewes, is Oid to is 2d ; half-bred hoggets, ls Oid to is lid ; do. ewes and wethers, is Oid to is ld ; Kent fleeces, mixed, is Oid to is l±d ; Leicester fleeces, is ()id to is ld ; long heavy wool fleeces, llid to is ld ; combing skins, llid to is lid; flannel 'wool, is ld to is 2id; blanket wool, 81d to is Oid per lb. SEEDS. Our market continues inactive for all agricultural seeds. In the quotations, however, no material change has taken place. Linseed is steady, on former terms. Rapeseel commands full prices. Cakes are in fair demand. Turnip,White, per bush. 22; to 25; Swede • • • • •• • • —s 'dusts rd, Brown.• • • 12s 14e /bite, new •• • • .. Ss lOs T ires,Winter, new.... 11s 12s Old.. • • • • • • • • • . •• 98 lOs Canary, per quarter 463 50s Rye grass • • • • • •. • • • • 24s 30s Olover,RedEng. (ewt.) 52s 65s White • • ...... 65s 75s Foreign Red.. • • • • 483 Goa White • ... 553 70s Trefoil, new.. • • ...... 25s 323 Carraway (new) ...... 44s 46i Coriander.... ........ 203 24s llempseed, per quarter 485 52s Linseed, Eng.owing.. 69s 72s Crushing ........ 65s 68s Baltic •• • • ...... 64s 67s Odessa •• • • ...• 61s 67s Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English • • ... 121 Os 12 7103 ... Foreign, per ton 1110 s 121 58 Rape Cakes, pr ton 615 s 61 108 Rapeseed, New, pr qr.. 82s 84s TALLOW. Although the demand has been Fomewhat steady for the time of year, a decline in the quotations has since taken place since our last report. To-day, P.Y.C., on the spot, is selling at 52s Griper cwt. Town tallow is 51s nett cash. Rough fat, 2s 90 per 8 lbs. 1552. 1853. 1854. Stock this day .... • • Price of Y. C Delivery last week • • Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel.... Price of T0wn...... 1851 . 75,924 43,103 21.483 33.489 37s 6.1 to 38s 3d 53s 6d to 65 sOl to 37g 9d te —s Od Od —s Od 1,503 576 2,037 1,092 5,823 .5,250 6,972 4,628 2,497 1,071 602 4,344 7,725 5,140 2,217 383 03 393 6d 523 Od 653 6d 1855. 46,697 52s 6d ,o —s Od 2,059 7,057 633 5,439 525 9d EATLT7AYS; Bodfor4 end Blet3M ey Bucicgliamsh. ClydesdaleJe. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. B. Lint 6 pc Glas. Barr. Sr. Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull k Selby 1)o. Shama. 4 Do. z Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn and Matlock Middloehro' & Redear Midld..Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exton N.& tr.st.s p. Do. 6 per et. Do: Fixeas p Prost. & Wyre Do, A Qrs. A Royitn.& Hit. Shef.Roth and Goole g. 5 p.c. Shrews. &Her S. Stafford.sh. Wear Valle,ygr 6 per cent Do Wiltste,'omrst PREFE - Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. 0... I'dyth and Tyne 10 pm c. pref. (issd. at 501 & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares ... laleclonlan £lO Mester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent_ 'o. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Randons.3p.e Dun.Prth .& Al , er. J 741. Anglian Cls . A R Do. do. Cis. B 6 p. c Do. do Cls. C tp. c glastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. l Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 r . 0. St., m.ast lin., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 ncr cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sb. Do. do. 4 per'cont Tut Lancash. 6 p. ets York. J. sths RA. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness 4las. &5.W.G. 5 Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem Do. 4A p. c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... M.N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. S. dr W. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Prof. Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. con. red. 4i p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred, 4p.c. Do. Birm, Pref. Sh Do. Cnester 8 p. c.P.S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh 1 Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. & Brigh. G. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Now Guar.6 p. c. Do. do. 5 por cent.. Lon. &N. W., Coy. di Nuneaton 5 p. et Lon. & S. W. Con. 3th Londy. & Color. Londy. &Ennis.6Sh. Man., Shef., & Lin New, £lO Do. £6 liarypt.&Carl.4 p o Do. 41 per cent Do Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent.... 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. 11 Do. Pref. 4 per cen all Do. Si. Pref. 4 p. c.. 1.00 Ditto Leicester and Hitcben Pref. St _ all !Norfolk Debenture 100 IDo.Pref. 4p. c. Stool -100 Do. 5 p.c. Est 100 Do. per et.pref 100 ;Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c 100 North British 100 N. E. Rem, 4 p.c. P. 5 Do. do. d 0.... 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c :No.] 9 Dc. do. Quarters 4" , 10 Do.Yorktl,& Por. all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, .fc Wolverh.£ls, 7 Do H. Pro". 101. Sh. all Scot. Cent. ,Now Pre , all South Devon 14 Do. 112(0(1,41 per cenf all S. Eastern (Readi , ip Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4i per cent all S. Wales Gua..4 p. c. all Do. do. 41 p. c.... all S.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. all Stock. & Dar., sp. c. 15 Do. do. do all Stock. & Hartl. g. c. till July 1, '56 4 Waerfd. & Kilk .6 p c 50 50 SC , 25 CO 100 all 100 100 100 10 St. 50 100 100 100 all all 50 12t 12 10 St. 16i 5 St. 5 all all all all 10 fOO 100 102 - 104: 95 - 97 31 - 4 •.. - ..• i - par 105 - 107 13i - 14} id -- par 23i - 234 99 - 101 f 6 I 1* ••• - • ••• 2 -- 3p 25 - 2ad MINES. 1 all Agua Fria ... a ••• 6 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold .. ... ... 10a. all Anglo Californian / - 20 6 Australian ll - 11 1 all Australian Cordillera ... - ... 1 all Ave Maria .• •-•- 1 all Baden (Gd.Dachy of i - $ 50 all Blmnarvon Iron and Coal ..,.. - 7 20 14 British Iron 5 - 6 35 2G 13razilianImp.(issuezl at -.:5 pm.) - 3i 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiab 24 - 31 20 15 .Do. St: John Delße3. 28 -30 281 9 1 1 Carson's Creak i - # 1 1 Clarendon Cons. Min . Co. of Jamaica / - ilp tO all Cobro Copper 59 - 61 5 1 Colonial Gold 1 - B St. all Copper Min. of Eng ... - ... 25 all Do. Prot .71 p. cent ... - ... ... IC Copiapo ... l9 - 21 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg Co la :•-• li 2 1 Fortuna a -- Bi) 20 all General l5 -17 1 all Gt. Nugg et Veinßeg $ - i 41 all Great Polgooth 1 -2/ 1 all Liberty • 1 - k 3 all Linares. 7 - 7 ... 31 Dl. B . 2 - 24 . 5 1 Lusitanian 1 - 2p 31 1 all Mariquita $ - 6 1 all New Granada i - I 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co ... - ... 1 all Nouveau Monde ••• - ••• 20 all Pontgibaud Silva' Lead Min. & Smelt. ... 7 - ... 5 1 Port Philip i = $ 1 all Quartz Rock a - I 50 all Rhymney Iron l9 - 21 15 all Do. NOW 5 - 6 30 12i Santiago de Cuba...- 5/ - 6 1 all South Aust.ralian a - i 10 7/ Tin Croft •• - ••• 28). all United Mexican 3l - 4 3} 1 all Waller a - i 1 all West Mariposa a - i 1 t2s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba •,.. -•-• , MISCELLANEOUS. 25 1174 Australian Agricalt. 30 - 31 10 j all Auslraln. Royal Mail ... - . 10 7 Berlin Water Works 21 - 2 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 57 - 60 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. ... - ... 100 321 Canada 120 - 125 120 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. and July 114 - 115 5 all Crystal Palace 2 - 3 2i 3 5 5 Do. Preference ss. - 51 4 all Crystal Pal. of France ... - ... 1 / Duston Iron Ore ... - ... 20 81 Eastern Steam 25 23 Electric Telegraph l7l - 181 18 1 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir ... - ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... - ... 20 all General Screw Steam ... - ... 161 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... - ... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... - ... 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. ... - ... 10 0 9 Mesican&S.Amerieu. 61 - 61 10 21 Do- New ••• - ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel .. - ... 10 5 Netherlands Land l/ - 2 2 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter Steam Navigat. Co. ... - ... 1 all N. B. Australasian_ / - 1 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropeStaam .. - ”„ , 1 all Oriental Gas ll - i 1 11 S all Peel lir. Ld. & Minrl. 2s. - 21 2 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... - ... 50 10 Do. New ........... ... - ... 2 all Portland Iron C 0. .... 1 - 14 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. A.ustral, Invest. 14 - 2 1 / Ditto Now • ............ $ - 6 6 25 all South Austral. Land 36/ - :in 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip... i _ i - 1 all Do. Registered., ~ 1 - 1 5 Trust& L. D 0.17. Can. ..„ .._ ... 0 . 254 \rail' DpameiVe Land % ,„ ... 20 • 12i 25 20 8* 25 10 1.0.6 20 20 20 25 i pm wthl uhL asset' Cloau A. & SHARKK. see ... ••• 8 - 100 6 . 5 ii :: ioi. 3 - 4 6 - 64 1 - 11 i - 1 - 4 134 - 14 ••• ....... ... al -- 64 x . 118 - 120 110 - 112 104 .- 106 in 9 - 6 -- 64 9 -- 101 90 -- 92 -- 94 10 -- 11 17 -17 i 10$ -- 36# 74 -- 76 19i 201 14/ -15 f 137 -- 139 ••• -- ... ... "". .« ••• --- ••• n - 3i. 13/ -- 14 0 -- it) IS9 - 141 97 - 99 4g - ii ,pm pm 13a 11l 1016 110 •'s 'lO4l 96 5i 4 106 i THE. MAGAZINES. Blackwood.L—Au ingenious comparison is made in a review of " The Imperial Policy of Russia " between the recent demand of that Power to k ee p up an undiminished force in the Black Sea and the application of an "eminent housebreaker" to have his professional tools given up to him on his release from prison. Had a peace been arranged, says the writer, Russia iuight.be said to lave completed he term of her imprisonment ; her ships of sear and stores at Sebastopol being her prqfessional tools, the cannon and-. mortars the skele ton keys with which she ." would pick the lock of the Ottoman Porte—one difference being, however, that the magistrates in question had possession of the tools of their adventurer. It is justly remarked that by refusing to give up these offensive possessions, or even to abstain from increas ing them, Russia at once admits her intentions with regard to Constantinople, as " what else can she want syith a great fleet in the Black Sea or with the fortifications of Sebastopol ?" An inva sion, it is remarked, would never be commenced there, nor would any nation build a first-class for tification to protect a little district of summer resi dence and 'seabathi ng, the name of which was hardly ever mentioned before, and of which it is observed . the better informed probably knew enough to say it was a place somewhere in Southern Russia. A retrospect of the history of the empire traces its encroaching and aggressive policy from the days of Peter the Great, one of whose lines of policy it was to form the connection which so strongly links the interests of Germany with the destinies of Russia. " Zaidee," a romance, is continued, and this in stalment gives us several incidents. One of these is the discovery by the heroine of an old volume belonging to her grandfather, in which he has left a record of his repentance, and desire for atone ment. A serious fit of illness follows, but the whimsical family are all much attached to her, and she is well cared for and finally recovers. Another incident is the discovery of the first trace of Zaidee by the now diminished family at the Grange, but their search proves un availing. The " Notes on Canada arid the North West of America" is continued.- In these regions the value of land is frequently doubled in a year, or even sometimes in a few months. Wisconsin was only admitted into the Union as a state in 1848. In 1838 the population was only 18,130, in 1850 the census return was 305,391. The Governor of the State asserted in 1854 that there were upwards of 500,000 inhabitants; who had all emigrated there within the last fifteen years. The second letter to Eusebius on "Once upon a Time" is on this occasion devoted to the consideration of the book itself, of which it draws such an attractive picture, that if any further inducement to read it. was wanted beyond the name of the author, the anecdotes and literary histor'y here quoted would' surely furnish it. " The Story of the Campaign" relates, among other incidents, the assault of the Mamelon and Quarries. It is followed by one of the most remarkable articles in the number, a vigor ous, unflinching, and indignantdenunciation of the Aberdeen Cabinet, which traces the whole course of their duplicity, vacillation, and Russian policy. Individually and collectively they are held up to unmitigated and well-merited censure. After at tacking Mr. Gladstone for his sympathy for the Russian losses, the writer exclaims :—" Good in tentions ! it is well ; but that does not suffice for men who have to act for an empire. We do not imagine that the Aberdeen Cabinet preferred the interests of the Czar to those of their country—we do not conceive that they wilfully compromised the safety, though they knowingly compromised the honour, of England. Yet they actually did all these things. They invited the Cossacks into Europe. They have involved civilisation in a dilemma, and liberty in a death struggle.; At the same time they have kept England unarmed, uuwarned, and with no allies save such as forced themselves upon us in our Government's despite. And to all this they have added a career of duplicity towards the nation, which deepens their folly and mismanagement into a criminality which we care not to define." Well may the writer at last exclaim :—" Away with them ! Never more let them touch helm or sail of the State. They have brought England to the edge of the reefs, and they have shaken the good ship to its keel. Let us have no more such pilots. A. good name is now degraded, and Peelism is Rus sianism." The number concludes with a paper on " Administrative Reform." The Dublin University.—" The Dramatic Wxiters of Ireland" has for its memoir Richard Brinsley Sheridan. As may be supposed, an interesting subject is thus given, and an explicit, while neces sarily curtailed, account is presented of the life and actions of this remarkable character. It is said that already many have been occupied with record ing " the varied abilities, systematic profusion, convivial intemperance, brilliant conversational wit, unrivalled eloquence, dazzlinff meridian, and most melancholy decline, of this gifted but ill-regu lated son of genius." It is a curious circumstance that Mrs. Sheridan consigned the subject'of this sketch, with' his brother, to a schoolmaster, with the remark that they were the two dullest boys she had ever met with. Sheridan early displayed the want of judgment and caution that characterised his life. He ran away •with the beautiful Miss Linley when he was twenty-two and she eighteen. He was without profession or income. The first at tempt of Sheridan was the comedy of " The Rivals," which, successful and meritorious as it has since proved to be, was badly received the first night. Very different was the re ception given to " The School for Scandal." " The drop had not fallen on the first act before the whole house felt they were sitting in judgment on a master-piece—one of those rare productions which appear once in a century, an inspiration of real genius and an exhibition of truthful character, drawn from nature, without reference to age, society, local manners, or ephemeral fashions." The critic here states that perhaps this play may be placed at the head of all recent comedies, not only in the English, but in any European language. A passenger walking near Drury-lane was startled by a noise that resembled rolling thunder and an earthquake. He learned on inquiry that it was the applause of the audience at the new comedy. When twenty-eight Sheridan relinquised the drama for a new sphere of celebrity ; although unsuccess ful in the outset of his Parliamentary career ha persevered. It is said that his celebrated speech on the charge against Warren Hastings for the spo liation of the Begams produced an effect never equalled before or since in the walls of any legis lative assembly. Burke, Fox, and Pitt outvied each other' in their praises, and Byron in his monody has thus recorded it : " When the loud cry of trampled Hindostan • Arose to Heaven in her appeal to man, His was the thunder, his the avenging rod, The wrath, the delegated voice of God, Which shook the nations through his lips, and blazed, Till vanquish'd senates trembled as they praised." The concluding portion of this sketch is sad and gloomy ; it records how ha "whose passionate and creative genius had stirred the hearts of nations by its inspired sympathy, and governed senates by its burning eloquence," was left to die unnoticed and alone. On Sunday a sheriff's officer arrested the expiring sufferer. On the following Saturday all that was mortal was conveyed to the grave in West minAter Abbey in the presence of royalty— " And bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held tip by nobles to-morrow." By the grave of Sheridan are three similar, which are those of John Henderson, David Garrick, and Samuel Johnson: It is observed that "it would be difficult to select four mcre remarkable men lying together in the peaceful communion of the grave throughout the vast extent of that thickly peopled and time-honoured necropolis." " Al berico Porro," a tale of the Milanese Revolution of 1848, is an exciting story; but, as may be premised from the title, its details are of a painful nature. The cruel and unjust policy pursued by the Aus trians towards the unfortunate Italians is vividly narrated, and the state of the country in its indig nant, and yet depressed, spirit ably described. The hero is a young nobleman, whom his friends are urging on to rise up against the invaders, but who hesitates at first till roused by a scene of cruelty committed against some poor tenants of his by the soldiers of the oppressors, he is left ing over in his mind the chances of success against tyrants. "Papers on Poetry" has for it s sub jects the ballads of Spain, their ago and origin. We are informed that their number surpasses that. of all the European nations combined. Many _have may be called th e P weight attempted arranging them in a chronologiealelassi. wishtolerhica is and criti cal affixed a fication, but the task has been best performed Augustin ercy o fD Spainu Duran,. n , T w h h e o w , o i r t k is h he said, h a s arranged dnearlysco discourse rs t w e o of thousandgreat cal character. The various styles are here a ll u d e d to, traditional, literary, and poetic. Th e b a ll a d was in its greatest gl or y when "Lope and Gongora util b it a y lia of an nto historical took it into their own possession ; then' indeed it clothed itself in all the splendour of poesy, diffusing among the people an intense feeling of poetic en joyment, which found its fullest fruition in the drama, to which it contributed materials that even yet are nnexhauSted." " The Government, the Departments, and the War" contains some forcible arguments against the present state of things. In speaking of Administrative Reforin, it is observed that the Conservative s first recognised its necessity —that their Cabinet was formed of "ability before rank." After some remarks made on. the motion of Lord Ellenborough in the Lords the writer thus proceeds What Lord Ellenborough attempted in the Lords Mr. Disraeli has repeated in the Common?, with the same result. The observations we have applied to the first debate on adnainietrative reform fit the others. The Derby Chancellor of the Exchequer by his defeated motion secured the important triumph for his party of placing them before the country as not only the favourers, but the originators, of a comprehensive scheme of improved adwmistration. The very phrase which has now beceme the Motto of a great association sprang from him. In' his speech of December, 1852, he first gave Ministaial embodiment to the growing. but then not formidable, movement for government by merit,_ and the proper exerciso of patronage. Others Carried out his views in part, but sufficient yet remains of his plan unadopted to form a distinctive feature of Conservative policy ; and knowing this to be the case Mr. Disraeli, in his oration during the Layard debate, party of which he is% brilliant member, to a pledgedthorough the departmental reformation. To that extent the Whigs will not, cannot go. They are bound by toe many ties. Their political existence. is too abnormal. A aro composed of heterogeneous mate rasls a , p b h coe v cohering bad/3-. - But the Conservatives are a com pact and if eae— i dy e r i they they be in a minority in the present Pirliament, are rendered so bycoalitions without principle or any elements of co n tinuance. In adhering rat.onally and practically to administrative reform we give a really valuable pledge which should satisfy the nation at large, sealdd as it is by the efforts about being put forth when a disgraceful faction expelled Lord Derby from office. Mr. Disraeli, with singular wisdom, enunciated broadly on the Occasion to which we referihniiews of his party, and their determination, should they occupy the Tree. sury benches bofere the so-much desiderated changes are effected.. What could be more pointed, vigorous, or definite' than the fo!lowing deelaration : " lam of opinion that the entrance into that service Should not be by mere favotiritisce.: I think it should be the subject of a substantial and real test of fitness, and .I think the idea of a substantial and real test of fit ness is nut illusory, but essentially practical. I think, in the second place,' that the rewards of our public civil servants should be on a higher scale. I think that the result of the change will be public economy, and not in creased expenditure. I think that' the reward of the public servants should not be merely of a fixed nature, but that they should be trained to look upon other and more spiritual rewards which animate and ennoble the conduct of men. I am also of opinion that the civil service of the country ought to be made and must be made, strictly and completely professional, and the great offices of the State should be reserved for public servants who have been trained and educated in the permanent civil service. These are what I think sound and judicious changes. They aro changes of administrative reform . They are changes which I think every Government ought to adopt and carry out, and nothing short of this ought to satisfy the house." Bentley's Miscellany.—The comprehensive ques tion of " Hovr We are all Getting On," is the title of the opening paper in this magazine, which takes a brief view of affairs, without arriving at any very novel or striking conclusion. The article which follows is on the present Czar, Alexander 11., of whom, considering his position, comparatively little is known. It is, of course, difficult to foretell his future career from his antecedents, or divine what effect power and position will have on his character. The present sketch of him is founded on a work by M. 1.460nz0n Leduc, entitled " Per sonal Reminiscences of the Emperor Alexander II.," recently published at Paris. -"Neapolitan Expe riences" relates a romance of Italian life, a love story, with all sorts of misfortunes, and a happy ----- co - nclusion: Indian warfare is be coming quite a forgotten subject, but the author of an article on the annexation of Nag pore thinks it right to call the attention of the public to the principle of our policy in Hiudostan. For a country which consoles itself in all the pri vation and suffering occasioned by the present cam paign by the consideration of the justice of its cause, he considers the system of aggression and appro priation displayed in our Indian dominions to be somewhat inconsistent. A paper on " Sebastopol, Kertch, and the Sea of Azoff" relates the recent events of the campaign, and takes a general sum mary of the present state of affairs in the Crimea. " Ad Statuas" is a description of a visit to the Vatican by night,. lighted only by wax tapers. The effect of this is described as most im pressive. " The Mormons in Utah" gives an account of that extraordinary sect, whose in crease and prosperity since their settlement in Utah has been something surprising. In 1852 the heads of the community sent messengers through all the branch colonies to discover how many Mor mons would enter a poorhouse they proposed to establish. Out of more than thirty thousand per sons, most of whom hal joined the colony ex tremely poor, only two preferred a °Ulm for relief ! Among the most remarkable papers is "An Essay on Leigh Hunt " by Monkshood. Colburn's United Service.—The usual narrative of the naval and military operations of the month is accompanied by a useful sketch-map of the ope rations in the sea of Azoff. The Governor of her Majesty's settlements in Gambia contributes some useful information respecting western Africa in a bluff soldierly fashion. " Errors on the Subject of the present State of the Army" starts with a mis take. No outcry has ever been raised against peninsular experience ; the complaint has been that experience has been preferred to active com mand after it has been reduced to go on crutches. A misstatment like this will hardly prepare the lay reader to believe in the writer's flattering ac count of the general or purely military organisation and regulation of the army, which hi represents as incapable of improvement, though in another ar ticle it is frankly admitted that the chance of rising from the ranks is so infinitesimally small as to be inoperative for good. Among the remaining papers are a lucid account of " The War of Libe ration in the Peloponnesus in 1820," and a continu ation of two valuable articles on " Central Ame rica" and "Military Education," the Editor with his "Portfolio" . bringing up the rear as energeti cally, and with as much good sense, mingled with professional prejudice, as ever. In his defence of Lord Raglan—which, to our thinking, bears the marks of warm personal friendship—the talents and services of that noble and lamented com mander are lauded as we would be happy to be lieve they deserve. The editorial remarks on the massacre at Hauge, and other Russian barbarities, will find an echo in every British heart ' • and it is to be hoped the recommendatio n t o British officers to hold.no intercourse for the future with Russian officers will be followed. The Zoisi. H. Bailliere. " Reichenbach and his Researches" is continued, the principal result of his investigations into the " persistent odic conditions in the human body" being briefly but lucidly narrated. The particu lars of a number of remarkable cases by the agency of mesmerism, with explanatory and other appro priate remarks, are also given, and contribute largely to the value of the number. The most in teresting feature, however, of the Zoist for July, to the general reader at least, will be a phrenologi cal sketch, made at Milan in 1842, of the character cf Colonel Haynau, since well known as Marshal Haynau, "by Dr. Castle, of Montmorency, near Paris ;" and an illustrated paper—to which Dr. Elliotson contributes the introduction and conclu sion—by Mr. Straton, of Rosebank, near Dundee, on " The Correspondence between the Characters and Heads of the two Murderers lately Executed at Newgate," the cerebral developments in each case, and more especially, or rather obviously, in the two latter being shown to correspond, phrenologi cally speaking, with their known characters in a remarkable degree, thereby giving force to the les son of humility and thankfulness Dr. Elliotson in culcates. In connection with Haynau, we learn from a foot-note, that it was whispered at Vienna, that at the post mot tem,.as it was thought to be, of the Marshal, "his heart was seen to beat, the blood flowed, and he groaned." will be reitembered that Prussian last month a description was given in this maga ziners army f y t h e e f respecting p A r u u s This number contains a similar article, which pre sents of the o r s g o a m n e isa s t i i th on iela o sr f trde tl ne i tg e at a ihl army. The distribution of orders is very large, there being no less than 12 different decorations. Longevity" is founded on which B h us chhby at, t A li n e r a e r c t e i n cl t e w o o n rk of M. Flourens, which . has . attracted . os e r n g T a t i sl e i u s N : t :l o :i i t , h 3 a l n,d i u d e l ff l ec .— tainv it a good deal of attention in scientific circles. His theory is that men and animals live five . times , the length of the time they take in growing. Mrs. the accomplished translat3r from the Danish, contributes a "Tale of Zetland,' , least possessas some novelty to recommend it. The ' history of Adeline do Castella is con tinued under the title of the "Sick Chamber," but is not yet concluded, though it rapidly approaches its termination. The series of papers on the :`Eighteenth Century" are this month devoted to a curious and interesting topic—the Wars and ap prehensions of Invasion at that period. The thirty-third number of "Literary Leaflets," by Sir Nathaniel, presents us with a criticism on the ." Life and Letters of the Rev. Sydney Smith," lately published. The " Diary of a First Winter in Rome" is nearly at au end, we should surmise, as it has now reached the "Holy Week." A new story is commenced in this number, with the not very attractive appellation of " Stoke Dotterell; or the Liverpool Apprentice." Loss OF A STEAMER OFF FOLKESTONE.—On Saturday afternoon a telegraphic despatch from Folkestone was posted in the underwriters' room at Lloyd's, announcing that a steamer, which had evidently been in collision with some ship in the Channel, and bad been taken in tow by the Government transport steam-ship Chester, No. 182, bad gone down in about 15 fathoms water, some two miles off Folkestone, between seven and eight that (Saturday) morning. Nothing further had trans pired, but it is believed that they were endeavouring to make the port when the steamer foundered. 5 20 100 100 100 20 1 2 all 13 1.0 20 20 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 3 2i 105} 1101