The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-05 00:00:00

19 r , 1 11' I 0 .1 0 ~e~~ t~ I~j o~ I „ y AK E T (4314117W1AL U.L.NENt B. le ~_ - CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. 'ceesi,ji.t°ll"on Market at Liverpool on . Saturday Il i ( it 'o we .. a heavy appearance, but prices were ~es,it J. . The sales were estimated at 5,000 tl.,,Ptling 50 Perham nd Maranham, at 1i4 h, 4 ) 4'4 4 4! 3 ., li7ahia, at sg 7 d. " to 6 8 sd; ; 200 I.3uyp ''Perib 'o 2 8-d., and 500 Surat, at S. to Pte4m . Tie Railway Share Market was de , V e 0 1 lillekke 1 Mark e t i s higher to-day, and holders r.1. 4 e. 1 , 1. tho country districts have much confi etl44`lo Inaiutenance of prices after an abun -4lttheill'ost, perplexessome and disappoints others, 11, 1 '44 !t"Perienced parties are unable to form OfoNwier) Positive Opinions as to the future. C„,Gli awini extracts from a report by Messrs. ,‘Charles '` Sturge, may be taken in illus .-. 1: We a r ; . . 1 / h ,' , 4 eiti s ,: tis eed front the extent of land sown with Jar 'No e , muPerior quality and quantity of the crop, it te :,, tl 44 i ci o f „ b _ te atl from last year's harvest willpro t ye e i t iitot e ipa:i? jele:etylittpl: Previous season season, ytt not only has 11 Price hi L e t wheat for the past twelve months (72s year since 1319, but for Dt;- kip o tlY 71, 1 w 7 P 7 3 ld, and for the same month in k lB .ied„ e , h Ay to be the harvest of the latter was ,1'94 5 , 1 ",4 1 3,rg ii -e the most deficient since 1817, but "na r ti — I t ttu thH ( lr3. of wheat, flour, and meal were 14 9 4 n l tiii4 ',usited Kingdom, and the average im hrt 'f",41:14,21.4ta abolition of the Corn Laws .in .qi li i) , - t " 6 ia l t Al:" qrs per annum, while the entire im „ e r 4 4 e1t,983 n'f l Uotit'lls in 1854 w'as only 465,435 Vs , Ni l 4 evel.;'''for the same period in 1853. kip at e jatl e 4 t P ekion to suppose that farmers have Sivi'fer the 44 l arge a proportion of the wheat crop 4 1, 44 L10f fo millers are well supplied, though the tI A,, - " t ia t It i :,: i o ou the market has been so greatly e: 1 . 4 44 or' tnliPossible to form anything like a cor- St t t d "„elt of tht" imports that may be required before edh`eati ok me Present year, but it is universally ad hedjo,,teore a gust last the stock of wheatin this country 11 14,`", w ee r°, Pletely exhausted than for a long time 11 11 0.1 k : 1 . .4i th e iit!e_refore notwithstanding . the great e U lm I :vest of 1853, it is very probable in L'Nf,, o l lek e p er . r there Was as much wheat on hand 0 .0 thi s '.c'd in 1854 • It does not, however, so iht Illipb,,t circumstance that we shall require t, kp l Po4totiat? meet the consumption of 1855. The ei , 6114,4,, Issuperior both in quantity and quality 5 4 k 1 741 0 0 41011 1e the first season when the disease was ti tt hey h t t hem, and it is evident that for some L 'eri t c l ' 4 %4 a le been more extensively used as a sub- Olof f t aecli oc , „ 4 1 stron g proof of this is the fact that . Ny *ti b 'ue almost entire suspension of the un it h tt , gn flo ur L I P% of the ! and the decrease of mill-power in Ci t liq ti lhe n u longdoin from the very short supply . . sPtl l ill itY of English sack flour pressing on ) , k, e , loop is markets where the millers usually send Z httz 64 e k red ° great where it is sold at unremunerating 4 .lt th With wheat. It is therefore probable „'l tii 1 '4 14 : quantity of wheat and flour which was Cee l ,,tt o : the harvests of 1853 and 1854, would C s ti„: 4 l e neZt crop ; this quantity, i . f the war 0eb1i0... 1 . 1 . 1e1 l as our present prices will secure. of ''''' o 4 of our last monthly circular, we h 44 i Of 4 little • .011 t Wh eat fro e further information respecting the ' 4 Il lik in Rus •in 1853 which fully bears NJ a te th • "a ' ,N, the w at it Via t I .t 6 000 000 quarters. I Vlt-"1N.7 'lth -4",Barprngathaeta, ' with' stocks' exhausted to h er Part N, - of 1 ,,,, - rPly Should Europe, the , stoppage of this 0" 'ees. E ve have produced the present high K 0" Z e es. e 7. v ell with a continuance of average eti Bt , re ro it'Pe.ct much lower rates in the absence ; 4 ea 4 1 W 01, 11 1, 18814 ; while another harvest similar to t*- •th t llle of l, Make the continuance of the present Ve4 Ilse of Dealgulable misery to the poor throuhg elitita --.urep e. ,, kl tl lta fr .c.hn Q k:ky L il t Is ta er ulanY state that the Austrian . ', 4 to -g ikked Z st anxious to get the branch t l ' 3ll . r.tabr la : °4l Warsaw . to Boschina, and 1 )144 Ili a 4.1) 12,000 men being employed 141,5t/141h-2 rails 12,000 would be most important ' tt,„ • -.au,. ruse s . A litho i atble'ell r ebs -.. l a r ge number . of Jewish zi. l tie4 l ' l° . t et A" . 'ved. from the Polish frontier " prolo 4 ' 4 4, by order of the military ° Polish P it itql . 1 stt icUy' r Z t6 it t 44l4 3 A grain being taken . across It thro l'riel 'klistria, and Gallicia is being WII 1 11 th 4 t il t) but there is no inapedi.- I N' of its exportation to , I ' l :etean, ez , '4,:tearti f. 111 the . . ar o° 'flited States has not yet 0 • Lint f i t , r iailt.,l ° sp e c i e ,7)Abi r , -- i s `,Stea rti v_. o ll board the Peninsular ) 1 3",! c s'LL 'Leal. —4 lgation Company' '44. e ') is 20 68 B°otharn t to day for ludia ' Company's vessel li e.h ati 4,7 15 i. pon 4 the Lbeell wore ra ve s' business d o • b iloYancy 1, 6tilthe _ Ill!nisterial in the funds, . . in f the • . i ng continues limited, rlt, o u uriinea IS difficulties. The 11 CrtltOlti ha ' beer.looked upon as more N ut both N 0 9la 2 and Exchequer now lira SS . to R incine Y and account. 2to ~- ,1 1 A, and East India Bonds . eh' -1 1 1 4. tank Stock is stoady, at 211 to kto 4 - 4 1% Stock at 222. The New Three t , •'' '.4 been 92 to 92, and the Reduced le iLllct44::itio,tir,t% have been a little firmer, but ete' t , (n laes --- ,',: l iug Russian I;ends continue ti, 4 "g; ll e, - ; t ‘Loi the issue of more paper at tr i o 4 l'T l4ti M 'i ltl in % in the nature of a forced hi 4i tt • r t4 - i",Ya of the government is t i l i er ii t ,,l' e r Ceilt peat Cents. have been 102, t th e D ' e ' r uatil ig• - T . I' l l; Spanish stock _is still_ , K. cli ,„errea 1.5 e , h oPer Cents. are 36.1 4 to . il ) 't? l etlts. V' t 44,1 ) T urkish Bonds are 76± , to k t l foll o / ' el reali se d el l done at 4. Dutch .4 1 .... 0 wing e ti. 62i, 21 to r Plada b : 1 ?• 01 ninal prices of foreign ilirlat, ,„i ; 1 1 ,,,„ a "er, red Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi- St; :3.'' p u u to 5i,"" ? .,,,1a1a, 70 to 72 ; ditto Three N• Po ' ll -118 sian 1-i• -1- orl uguese Four per Cents., ~ (1,144 11.te*ttlicl'a-tta l i . f e per Cents., 100 to 102 ; ‘ti,;°llt s -„•• Defer red Per Cents., 88 to 90 ; il l ' i l'a.k? ()6 i to 3; re up 17± to 18 ; ditto Three , k - to 44 ; lq k /`411 % , 0 4i., t• al t o • t e ''''' eetili gs announced are the fol. iati , 4 1 , t . iltsp aim ,_ i 1 1. 14 i }PI. Date. lace. ss' ll aki s cl ot • ,Anni. Pei). 16 Euston Hotel. 4 ;N te14;:!: .......... Feb. 14, 17, Gracechurch-st. MI.I, ... . . I' ion Feb. 28, Dublin. ~I , le z iti t i e . ............ Feb. 23, London Tavern. ,4q‘1,11Z,,,,..0,1,0,,,,,;. .......... . Feb. 27 London Tavern. t b ,oe te. o • ............ Feb 16, London Tavern. (1404 4;4 .::... ............ Feb . . 28 Albion . Tavern. ylt4et el , l eeti;..w re ..•• Feb. 15, Paddington. . Ntlt tuxt, n e stema Feb. 15, Waterloo Station. I ,k i t ‘t t 't,:;iijy•'' ...' and 'lr" c 4.11.. 4 . ... • Feb. Feb. 7,2 Manchester.)erby; r.i tro l t le tti t l t ot tl .... • • ......... Feb. 26 Florence. od i Iv Il i ta....t"' • ' .... Feb. 22 , York t'6Zilekhck,_eeeter:etttn .............. Feb, 15, Bishop . sgate-street. k 'Gt tl ' l'v kl q a • 11c1 Wol. itt e `T tiL r 4- •ik t h i k4 1 , 4 6 .1 4 ... e . r . e " 1 : 0 • r - ci: ... Feb. 21, Lo lon Tavern. 7 Sh n ewsbury. k 0 O l Parli' e *„",. • ... ...Feb.' . 16, London Tavern. 1, 1 N ta. ,. Ne e 44 0 4 ...... 11 4 43 ' 44"glia r .... , .... Mar. 5, Paris. - i gh at . 4 DA: 4,re .......Feb. to i per cent. lower in ! 14 1 , 4 5t - Z i N c i' iti , -- ''''lth but . limited transactions. ISliet• L4)l ha ve t : ll are decidedly flat, and the 4 i:"`tri? "" 1 co declined. Eastern Counties, tpdll,,lftll4,_l'd liblaratiYel firm, and also South - va t , na.l a l '.da.nd / 1.1 f i ma lines have Th 84,,,,„ t,,,,,. . (3 Ore , kt i e Go is g ' ' 4 3 including both the Indian Ili i 41 d 4114 ti, 4 14 4 ; ). all , thia te h 'et Mining shares have been I 43 "ell ; a anks are slightly in favour of 4- t he Land and miscellaneous kt a , '-kala ______________ ma z r ,„ Lk (2i , , a 4 4, 3 DA.T AT ONE O'CLOUY. l ' i lt t4 ''' OP:kit List.) k;'' % 4 t. ili'.. , ... Rwiness done I, h l eo 4 4 . . ......................... 211 1.9 1 4,1tdP',,1 . h e ::ols i t .( t _ l in!liLi as 9li i II li p,, Vlliti... • .4.. r l e iti e ,. 7 914 R [ 1 3•:a .1 1 ".Ex h • "It a ..... 92 2 2 , t i , .. ore sth , ............. t b ,t ki tt o di, :e.: .... d an., 1860 , 4 5-16 ttte.ll... 906 ............................ 222 l et .',' <oat, .. ..... •••... ................ .. . ttie•ce4.ltii'". ........................ 12 10 kli kl 7l . 14 11 e, 4.11 F ebruar y titt: ,' i,; • •••.... I Lk k,„ me Ig'i .. .;I 044 O. ? 1859: u u Per Cent. __ (5,,'4i, , 0,,,P011, t , T ~, 1.:41 4 no e 4 ---""" FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOIK. Rh: l k 44 '" ......... ti• h 4, 11 (le 2, 5 Der a ,!t t , ~...4i Dei.r. ent. xst -, L u itt, 4 eic°,)3 per Cent t auto io, t „ . or th ( Ver r ,, i , ... ktt; to e ' Ae ec , - ' ° Per Cent 'tii t er t ; 1 1, g per ce nt 1 t t:t e ,,ip Ace,jnt 1142%40:et --, 2i ab uve Pa rable in Lond.n• Per 0 ceuL. 12 Cull 62a , 4 bi tt , 4 l. HALF-PAST T WO. 0. f,:, r .. ua l y A ........... ................... 9 1: ,4 4 0 : t ile ':..) ccon u t ...... . ... 91% •1. Ip,'lll4lhillta -----"-"-'-'"---------- 4 44 4! 4 r e11t " of speci e by the PoninFular and t4ll4oPtis forl'll./.eirnll' mount tto :"..0 4,7151., . of which 11' I ll ' ea•l4t Lornhay, Penang, Singaporo, ,11 1 ., t tf , °O, and Shan I• • • d ''''' •I rot .t qi t .... and ~, lang Jai ,an 0i,.,., . Geld, ntivetk. izzgztrii"-Icandria. A,,' . e el ° of trit.lBTjex• The annual exhibition of %:, tbe tt °Pen, l , u artists was subu itte I t, private Viltil, t e t'. h owei l._o_ the public to-da y . Pressure of 4.4bo„°•nkr„ ex', compel s us to postpone our no -4 "4s W • red 04 0 ,,... . llt it Y lit r e of , ~.',-'3 INSTITUTION.—A fi w evenings tii 4 . ) , r, • Ti l i r , vitrY attractive natur e was delivered T op wail e t • q il li h %ti , n itled "1., E „p ir d a musical I i4 t4 i) 1% .., t . b e l e 6 ___eu,ll elusion arrived at was. that Eng jo, ra iljNrugsidered a musical country. The ON4 th t 'd tea ated by selectionsparcel', )4 '411 ° Y Oth from Arne, . el,Alci and the m,:r composers, British and foreign. 0441 1 3 4 ''h l k' '1(1 Wads and Lane, and Messrs. 11 of th e „ . , e, were the artistes engaged for " Lean -re, which gave general eatis 25 812 s St. St. 25 25 50 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 10losinr Prices Saturd• y. Swine's dons this day. 20 - 21 4i - 4 - 12 -11 u 16 - 174 7,3 - 94 - 61 - l l3. ••• 3.3 - 6 - 7 14 - 15 11;1 - 11 29 - 19 - 21 73 75 55 57 2d par 19 20, ••• ..... 70 - 72 89i - 914 72 - 74 126 - 128 90 - 92 65 - 66/ GO - G 2 74 - 78 7 - 9 7 - 9 74/ 754 [Ol 103 [ook 101 d par 85 86 Si • 8 7. 1 241 - 24 7t- 8A 1 6'J - 70 41 - 43 d 11 —9,; 24 49 - 51 31 34- 304 ... 31A 8 10- —1/ 6? 71 1 : 76?, 64 5/,1 4# —3/ r 2/ 134 53, 54 51 53 Par — la _ 4 3 -' 6 611 ip 31 - 32 98 - 100 62 - 62?, 8 - 9 45 - 47 12 - 14 591 2tq - 29!_ 37 - 39 3 ki 1G 17 Y 31 4.1 23 - 5 5.,_; c d i RIELTura. Paid.! Aberdeen.. „„„„ Ambg. No*ing. BEst and Eastn. Junct , HaMist & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birke.nhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Janet Do. Clash. & Birk , £5O and 225 Cons Do., £20... &Tyu3origina £25 Ogsd. at 145 Brigtol and Exett,r.. Cali don ian. Cat ar tllen and Car digan 013-1 wad Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, do PAS:, Clonnvall all .00 ali 00 Cried' Junction T.)ublindalelfastJunc. Dundee Perth &Aber Been Junction Do. New all all 100 100 100 I C 3 East An:,),•lian, 50 16 3 16i St. 11 4 ! all all 100 100 Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, A Stock ......, ...... 'Do., B, 5t0ck...... .. Do., New A.....„. East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasg , Edinb. and Peebles._ Edin. Pr th & Dundet %Air& Clyde Juno Furness Do. Extension Glasgow & S. Weston Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock 'Gt. Sth. &West.(lre., Great Western Do: Stour Val, Rai Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlis'; Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds__ Lancash.a.ndYorksl , Do., Fifths I - Do., Wst. Riding Un Liv.ersby.&Soutlipt Loudon & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst Loud. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths [OO & Derb; all 'ofidld. G. West. (Ire, ) 22 ;)o. lia7!. Shares 111 ieweastle & Carlisle \rewmkt.BuryExten 21 wpt.Aberg. & Had 8 ;e wry & EnniskilleT all ;0 - wry Warrenpoin , and Rostrevor I_oo corfolk too' I Do.IO/. Sh.,M&B ' Do. Eighths London and S. Westn Do., £5O. Do., £4O Lndndrrsr& Coleraine Gndudrry. & Ennisk. If anch. Sli f.& Lir clr Do. 4 Shares, No. 1 )0., Man. & Lin. Un. Aidiand. 17? all all 1 Ninrthn.Connties lin. Niorth British north Devon, No. 1. '., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guarant , :ce g. Eastern—Berwi el Do. do. Extension G.N.E. Purch Do. Leeds Do. York north London 1418. Do. New £lO N. &S. Wstrn. ,llamp stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire North Western.., N. & S. Westrn. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester )xford, Woreester,& . Wolverhampton eortsmouth icottish Central 180ottish Midland ihrewsby. di Herd(' Thropshire Union iouth Devon iontli Eastern south Wales 4. Yrksh. St Riv. Dui Do 4tainoB, Wok &WC, Stockton .- & Darli 4tc.r.kton di ihutlepl Caff Vale.. !10. £lO shares 9 0 . Prer., No. 1. ['Lames Haven Doe. and R. tilway Vale or Neath Vaterfd. bt, ICilkenn. Waterford&Limerirl West Cornwall .Vcst End of Loud()) and Crystal Palace. West Lo 1.1 on WiluM edu Croy do-, FOREIGN. -6/ 1 - 14 4 - 3 Par i P 24 - 2 32,4 - 321 5 - 64 1 - 1, 1 :1 - 82 72 9i 81 11 101 88 90 2 3 I par ip par eP 24 3 2 24 . 16 —l7 97 -- 1601 93 • 95 2 d par 97 100 - 2 -21 p Vol ... -- itl ... I a G 1 -7. f - 344 - ZrU 121 = 12; ••• - •• gi - 9 • 21$ - 21ZPI 47 49 42 44 pro i p 21 lid 7 ••• - ••• ... - pm 34 - 3i 7 -7.1 p iii: - .li - i BANKS. SO -- 82 ••• •• 1 d ,i • d 3 - 2A.1 21i - 21 - b .•• "... ... ••• 33 - 35 37 - 39 ••• ••• 38 -- 40 65 - 67 7 - 9 A utwerpali.pttertiani 3elgia,n Eastn. June '', Beziers to Graissossaej I lornbay, , Bare , and, Central India,Serii; Central of Italy Demerara Dijon andßesaugon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. V, p. c. Bds., pay '57 convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. TL- of Canad.,A is Do. St. Lawrence Atlaot!c do. Do. Cert. or Debon., con. into Stl - . till '6l Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France (it. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cont. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares ... Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p,'56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without optlon Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p. c prof 1 7,y - onS and Geneva Lyons di Maitorrs.n Madras Do. New 'Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur di Liege (with interest) - - Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. Do .20/. Shs.lato Char- leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22y. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Ede (fmy.B.dr AMS. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPrei l Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris .and Rouen . ParisCaen dt Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Prof.. Westeili of France_ I West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOI Australasia British Colonial Banl and Loan Company Britiith N. Amorieat Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. link. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Loud Friglish Scottish anti Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. oi Aitstralia . Ditto New. Loudon nod County London Joint Stock {_u 3. & Wetitmirikter National Provincial of kl n 77 ; tud .... Do. Ncw National of Ireland Now South Wales Oriental Eank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Aurtraln.Bkg & Gold Imp Co 3onth Australia Union of Australia Do. New .321 all 2 10 Union of Lomion ..., 624 2 a 41 113 i 651 i 6 5i 101 11 2 x d 1001 1 loog 511,1 81 29,1 16/ § 39"4 40 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY l5, 1855. Lr NES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. THE QUARTBRLIES. German, Flemish, and Slavonic) enumerated in his renowed thesis in the University of Paris. P re _ cisely as the same review accepts the assertion of Aulas Gellius about the live-and-twenty languages spoken by that royal myth Mithridates (the pun may beforgiven under the provocation of the circum stance here particularised), what though the said. quarter of a hundred tongues are not a jot more obviously real than those of the " four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie," and capable of singing so very dulcetly when placed before another king than the Ki ng o f P on t us . E very thi ng reported about Scaliger, saad Crichton, and Mithridatcs, the Edinburgh reviewer swallows as, at once, entirely credible ; but, again and again, without any more reason than in the instances above' specified, he writes dubiously and reasons sceptically about the vast and otherwise universally admitted capacities of the late Cardinal Mezzofauti. Nay, what does this very critic himself tell us at one part of his ingenious and elaborate argument ? What but thin— R4u,w,iss. Leasing 0-,inphns losins Prices Saturday. Businese this day. • The Edinbuigh Review. No. CCV. - Conspicuous among the nine articles in the cur rent number of the Edinburgh Review, just pub lished, is the paper relating to the extraordinary and altogether unparalleled genius of the late Car dinal Mezzofanti. The contribution is one evi dently from the hand of an accomplished critic, if it nowhere betrays on the part of the writes any very considerable erudition as a philologist. The subject of disquisition selected by the reviewer is precisely of a character the most eminently well calculated to rouse th e a tt ent i on an d exc it e th e curiosity of every int e lli gen t m i nd i ntereste d i n th e more curious and recondite fields of psychological investigation. It is no th ing l ess, i n fact, th a n th e minute analysis, as far a t l east as such a mattercan well be analysed, of an iutell actual capacity.of such surpassing magnitude, and of a nature so rare, if not altogether unparalleled, as to be no other than an absolute and admitted phenomenon. That phe nomenon, as already inti ma t e d , t h e gen i us an d career of the Cardinal G u i seppe Gaspar d o M ezzo - . fauti—incomparably the most won d er f u l li ngu i s t the world ever beh e ld, w h et h er i n recent t i mes or in the days of antiquity. According to the Edinburgh Review, the only name of which we have any re cord whatsoever, worthy of being brought into comparison with that of Mezzofanti, is the name with which that of the latter has been so frequently associated, the name of the ancient King of Pontus —the many-tongued Mithridates. But whereas Mithridates could . speak no less than "twenty-' two" languages, if we are to believe the assurance of Pliny, and Solinus, and. Valerius Maximus, or as many as " twenty-five," if we arelo give credit to Aulus Gellius, who avers that with a quarter of a hundred tongues the royal linguist was "thoroughly conversant" (percalluit)—Mezzofanti could speak— how many ? Why, astonishing to relate, as many as " fifty-eight," according to M. Manavit, or actually no less than "seventy-eight," according to the Civilta Cattolica. In the accuracy of these statements, however, as to the number of different languages perfectly well know - to—read and spoken by—Cardinal Mezzofanti, the writer in the Edinburgh is not by any means disposed to place implicit credence, without first of all subject ing them, oue by one, in regular succession, to a most careful, searching, and, so to speak, even microscopic examination. Yet after s ifti ng th e various pros mad cons relating to it, ho w astound ing are the scope and amplitude of th e reputat i on appertaining by right (according even to this moet sceptical of critics) to Cardinal Mezzofanti ! How marvellous the lingual capacities of Mezzofanti were we have been told long ago by Lord Byron. How many of us have forgotten the passage in the noble poet's letter to a friend, in which his wonder is so wonder-fully expressed in regard to that mon ster of languages, that walking polygl o t, th at Briareus of parts of speech, .of whom he says lie " ought to have existed at the time of the tower of Babel as universal interpreter !" Any one who has lost an exact remembrance of the witty pane gyric referred to, will find it given complete at page 47 of the present number of the Edinburgh —and in the same article passim a variety of kindred quotations. One •of these, takau from an elaborate sketch of Mezzofanti penned in 1846 by Guido Giirres, the son of the celebrated Catholic publicist and Professor, we must gratify ourselves, and our readers too we believe, by transcribing. It runs as follows : " The authorities already alleged place it beyond all doubt that he spoke almost all the leading languages both of the East and West with all but the freedom, the -precision, and the propriety of an educated native of each of the countries. It is not alone that the general fact is 2a.ttestel by many of these authorities ; each traveller Las borne testimony to his perfection in the language of his own country. Baroness Ulmenstein took him for a German. niece Volkonski ' would bo very glad if his son spoke Russian as well ;' Stewart Rose's Smyrniote declared that might pass for a Greek or Turk throughout the dominions of the Grand Seignior.' Baron Von Zach was taken by surprise, and stupefied by his excellent Magyar. Molbech found him speaking Danish with almost ent;re correctness ; and Fieck heard him speak modern Greek to a young man who cam* into the library, Hebrew with a rabbi or scrittore of the Vatican ; Russian with a magnate who passed through, Latin and German with himself, Danish with a young Danish arcbmelogist, English with the English, Italian with many !' We have ourselves repeatedly received explicit and equally precise assurances, not only from French, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Piles, but from orientals of every variety of race and of tongue. We must refer to M. Manavit for a very interesting account of his minute acquaintance with the various provincial dialects of France and Spain, and particularly with the Basque language, which, as we have seen, he proposed to study with Guido Gorres. Of his familiarity with English (although Fleck says 'his English was only middling') the accounts given by the English themselves seem al most more marvellous. He astounded' Byron even to his English. Captain Smyth said 'he spoke it more cor rectly than himself.' Lady Morgan could not detect any trace of accent, although (at that time) he had never left Bologna.' With Dr. Baines he 'spoke it as fluently as we do, and with the same accuracy, not only of grammar, bet of idiom.' And, even as far back as 1817, Stewart Rose attests that, 'during long-repeated conversations in English he never once misapplied the sign of a tense, that fearful stumbling to Scotch and Irish !' We may add, upon our part, the fullest con firmation of these statements ; and perhaps we shall best illustrate them by stating that we have known more than one instance in which Irish visitors meeting him for the first time have taken hint for an English eccle siastic, mistaking the slight foreign peculiarity which he retained, for what is called is Ireland, 'the English accent.' Notwithstanding, indeed, some most uncalled-for evidences of unbelief, here and there, as before vaguely implied, or expressly particularised, the paper to which we have thus directed attention as the most fascinating contribution to the pre sent number of the Edinburgh, constitutes, after all, a very splendid and wonderfully merited eulo giuma upon the almost inconceivable powers of the greatest linguist who ever breathed, the illustrious Guiseppe Gaspardo Mezzofanti. Honour to the manes of one who, through a long, and holy, and venerable life, enjoyed a " gift of tongues" veri tably Apostolical. In additi on t o the philological treatise here mentioned, the Whig Quarterly hag other papers of a merit by no means inc lnsiderable. Those relating to "Parliamentary Opposition," and to " The War in the Crimea," will just now Possess an unlooked-for increase of attraction— read by the light of passing occurrences—at home the change of Government, and abroad the calami ties before Sebastopol. A description given in another contribution referring to the "Siege of Rhodes in 1480" has clearly, in the very title of it, an illustrative reference to the siege now, in. 1855, carried on not far from the no Roads—be tween the heights of Inkerman and the port of Balaklava. A genial notice of Lord Carlisle's " Diary in Greek Waters," and an agreeable but superficial review of " Modern French Literature," make up—with a biographical chapter on the life and death of " Charles the Fifth," a sedate parer on " Private-Bill Legislation," and a readable ar gument suggested by " Marsd.on's History of the Puritans,"—the remaining attractions of our au thoritative blue-and-buff contemporary. " The vastness of the range of languages which he had mastered borders closely on the incredible ; and, what appears hardly less marvellous, this enormous store hail not only not produced any Babel-like confusion in his head, but, on the contrary, is completely at his com mand, so that, without the least effort, and without any observable interval, he passes irons one realm of lan guage to another as lightly as a bird hops from sprig to sprig. Ile is familiar with all the European languages. And by this we understand not merely . the old classical tongues and the first-class modern odes ; that is to say, the Greek and Latin, the Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and English; his knowledge em braces also the languages of the second class, viz., the Dutch, the Danish and Swedish, the whole Selavonio family, the Russian, Polish, Bohemian or Czechish, and Servian, the . Hungarian, and Turkish, and even those of the third and f our th class, the Irish, Welsh, Albanian, Wallachian, Bulgarian, and Illyrian are equally at his command. Oa my happening to mention that I had once dabbled a little in Basque, he at once proposed that we should set about it together. Even the Romani of the Alps and the Lettish are not unfamiliar to him ; nay, he has made himself acquit'nted with Lappish, the language of the wretched nomadic tribes of Lapland, although he told me he did not know whether it should be called. Lappish or Lapbandisb. Passing along to Asia, it is true that he does not claim acquain tance with ail the dialects of this vast region with its desolate steppes, and its fallen, degenerate, and fast decreasing population • but nevertheless, even here, there is hardly one of( the 'more prominent la nguage: , especially those which fall within the circle of Ruropenzi Intercourse, that has escaped his grasp. Thus he is mas ter of all the languages that are classed under the Tudo- German family : the Sanscrit and Persian, the Koor dish, the Armenian, the Georgian,—he is familiar with all the members of the Semetie family, the Hebrew, A rabic, Syria; Samaritan, Chaldee, the Sabaic and even tie Chinese, which he not only reads, but speaks. As rely,:erds Africa, and its Hamitic races, the re cent revival of intercourse with . that country, and especially with Egypt and Abyssinia, have facilitated the extension of his acquaintance with its languages andHe knows the C l op c t a ie n , no E t Abyssini an , A m h ar i c , iron, niy 0 wn knowledge say whether he has acquired any of the native laneuages of America, except the Californian ; but I have 'been told that even while he was in Bologna, lie leernecl some of these from an ex-Jesuit who had sojourned as a mission ary on that continent."—(flistorislt Politische Blattce. 1342.) ij a a t t e e s r th on e ' variousthe the. Edinburgh enume racin cording to his impression, conflicting statemerits of diffe rent travellers and p hil o logists, as to thediversity of languages actually r r atd e w , k n own to Mezzofanti. Taus—. " Stewart Roso says that Mezzofanti read twenty and conversed in eighteen languages Baron Von Bach ex tends t n o u d Ln eg bh r er o: emoakt consid ers h no t- objecti on to i t i n po i nt o f n Molbech says, the numb er extends to more thirty-two, ' 13 a r living's account an d dead exag geratedu Even of his languages.' Fleck m a k es it ` some thirty.' l own account of hims e lf we hare different vatein i s beet tl thoughil ; a s iY th reports : thus Lady Morgan says, that Mezzofanti him self, when she spoke of his forty languages, smiled at the exaggeration, though he had gone over the outline of forty languages.' Mrs. Paget, on the contrary, says that, with affected humility, he tokl her ' he spoke only forty or fifty and the Russian traveller states that, in answer to a question addressed by him to Mezzofanti as to the number of languages in which he could express himself, Mezzofanti sent him the name of God written with his own hand in forty-six languages! To com plete the embarrassment, M. Manavit gives a detailed li s t o f forty-eight languages spo k en by the Cardinal ; while another writer, the author o f a sketch wh i c h ap peared in the Civilta Cattolica, ( w h om M . M anav it quoteß, and who states as his authority a conversation w ith Mezzofanti in 1846), makes the number no less than seventy-eight! The Edinburgh critic, we repeat, regards the fore goingtii in . 1c i n6 .o a w p i T h g o r u e srs no e o n . tions asto the growth , a nd cultivation, conflicting There is to statementsou t. Not so do we i e n nr t e h e e iv n aes u g m . ben stated quite compati and iithrid a perpetual tes development of the ling u a l P o wers of our modern. Mithridates, and of our more than l Mezzofanti. Does the reviewer so entirely forget that Stewart Rose wrote in 1819 , When the wonder hßaodnielapsede.Upwards of during of Bologna was little more t han thirty-five, and that thirty years and mor e ha d elapsed before the statement oftho ~ afterwardscivi it a GgyaivtetenliewaaBput forth in the pages 1" Guiseppe Mez zofauti, recollect, was bor n on the lith of Septem ber, in 1774, at Bologna , and died a s recently as on March, seventy-five altogether in the interval—years dedicated by the great lin gu i s t to the perpetual increase and extens ion of his ex traordinary stores of philologi c a l knowledge. Why. 1849 at we learn from the Edinburgh reviewer himself that it was (p. 63) only towards the close . of his pro tracted life that Mezzefanti mastered the Chinese language, " probably," says the critic, " the most signal triumph of his career "—and mastered it, moreover, so completely as to be able to d e li ver in that tongue a series of discourses, moral and con troversial, to the Chinese students collected to gether, at the time, under the roof of the Propa ganda. Moreover, ix a previous page (p. 61) the reviewer has also recorded on the high authority of the Roman Catholic Bishop Baines, a prelate him self I, of extended learning, and of very varied ac complishments, that it was not until late in Mezzo fanti's career that, for a freak, ono might almost call it, in six weeks (without any knowledge of it I beforehand) his extraordinary intellect grasped and mastered the Welsh language ! Howbeit, with all his admitted admiration for the really unexampled powers of the groat Cardinal, the Edi u b m ., 7l , re viewer seems at times to have resolved perversely to discredit the vastness of those powers, merely fur the sake of appearing loss of an enthusiast and of a hero-worshipper. Incredulous upon many p uints in regard to Mcz.:efinti, the critic is never theless all-believing in regard to any other linguist whomsoever. Ex, gr., lie quite - bows do wn his judgment to the assertion o f Du Btrtas, to wit.; that Soaliger spoke thirteen languages, as thus celebrated in ridiculous dogrel : " Scaligor, merve ine do notre ag e , Soleil dig savants, qui pane elogauruent llebau, Grecois, Remain, Espsznol, Allemand, Fiancoii, Italieu, Nubien; Ar abi ql e, • Syrkquo, Persian, Anglois, Chaldaique," Again, the Edinburgh reviewer has an implicit credence in the capacity of the Admirable Crichton --r-that paragon of fabulous f, c ii o 1 a r 8 h i p —to dispute in any of the twelve languages (Hebrew, Syriac, Ara bic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, English, (from a sudden seizure, while going her rounds in the fashionable assemblies in May-fair) of Louisa Joanna Gaunt, Countess Dowager of Kew. Upon this unlooked-for occurrence much of the remain ing plot of " The Newcomes " may probably be dependent. Who can possibly av©r that it may not deprive of a blooming young bride, the high and eighty Priuo e ki n , Fergus Angus Malcolm Roy Earl of R ossmont , and Marquis of Farintosh. Mammon, ; or, the hardships of an Heiress. By Mrs. Gore. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. " Glories, like glow-worms, far away shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light," is the motfn prefixed io this work, and it exactly typifies its general purpose and intention. The object of the authoress is evidently to demonstrate and exemplify how many and bitter are the troubles which attend on enormous wealth. Janetta Wool ston was indeed a " nameless martyr ;" no pity or sympathy was given to her sufferings. She was considered by every one as free from care or an noyance, and as likely to be happy and prosperous as any of the most favoured amongmortals. The secret truth and hidden reality which lurked amid all this overpowering grandeur and intruded into her palace home was widely different. From • her earliest childhood the youn g heiress was forced to give up e v er y pl easure and sacrifice every tie of kindred and friends at the shrine of her worldly father's idol, Mammon. In his exclusive homage to that golden image, John Woolston Wraysbury gradually shut out all better thoughts and feelings from his mind. He became so wrapt up in the idea of his daughter being the richest heiress in the kingdom' that he neglected every other considerati on that should have influenced his con duct towards her. Jarietta herself was a gentle, unassuming girl, more fitted by nature and disposi tion for a simple and humble walk of life than to be the " cynosure of neighbouring eyes," and the observeci of all observers. A great deal of skill is displayed in the representation of Gerald Moly neux, or " Old Molyneux," as he was generally called. Although he was eventually earl, his old habits and manners remained the same, and not all the caution and wisdom of his sagacious referee, "Reuben Howard," could effectually metamorphose him and convert the reckless man of fashion into a staid and respectable member of the House of Peers, a worthy representative of his respected father and honoured brother, who had commanded the reverence and homage of all classes, and who had departed the self same year, the one in the ful ness of time, and the ether in the prime of life. The portion of the story which relates to Lord Dinton and Bessy Pennington is touching and full of feeling. It forms an agreeable contrast to the spirit which pervades the Aronicles of worldly ambition, and animates the records of fashionable manoeuvres. "Constancy's the gift•of heaven" was preyed in thelives of those pure-minded and highly-prineipled beings, who were at last put asunder by a sudden and awful death. It was a sad day for all con nected with the family, from the highest to the lowest, when the promised husband of Bessy Pennington was carried to the grave. The selfish and overbearing Gerald and Emma Molyneux could ill replace their gracious and gentle predecessors. One point in the story is very successfully described, the constant dread evinced by the crafty Sir John and his equally cunning sister Emma, of coming into contact with each other un d er un pl easant circumstances. Thus, when in his days of adver sity at the " weedy villa" at Hendon, the future millionnaire was never visited by his sister, who was then flourishing in aristocratic circles with small means, but fashionable exterior. The scene changed ; Emma and her husband were obliged to retire a little froth their extravagant circle, while the neglected brother was master of fabulous wealth. To forgive and forget was not one of the virtues of the baronet, and he repaid scorn for scorn, and thought himself the gainer in the con flict, when the sudden and premature death of his brother raised the exiled Molyneux to the rank of the Earl of Dinton, and enriched him with thou sands. Then the subtle relations were puzzled how to act, but the preference was on the side of the Dintons. 'They had the highest standing in society, and were the most accustomed to its usages. Sir John Wraysbury made the mistake of thinking that money was the substitute instead of the auxiliary of everything else in public and private life. The consequence was that he was looked upon with contempt by society, and regarded with distrust by his domestic circle. The know ledge that he was master of great wealth at pre sent, and the trustee of enormous riches for the future, was not enough to induce the world to tolerate overbearing conduct and unrefined man ners. While in his private intercourse he made enemies of friends and strangers of relations, by cold selfishness and cruel neglect, ho offers a strik ing example to all who devote themselves to the pursuit and increase of worldly gain, unmind ful of the more excellent and enduring pos sessions that wealth neither gives nor takes away —the ties of kindred, the bonds of friend ship, the respect of their fellow-men, and, above all, the satisfaction of an approving con science. The votary of Mammon forfeited all claims to these treasures, and felt his life a fitilure,, and his existence a burden. With all the skill, for which she is celebrated, the authoress shows forth such a life in its meanness, its harshness, and its short-sightedness. The hardships of an heiress, who possessed such a miardian, may be imagined. Besides the ehequered career of Sir J ohn, who migrated through every stage of life, as a poor man, anal. a millionnaire, there are various claims on the notice of the reader. Fashionable life is de scribed, not in its usual stereotyped monotony, but new and striking characters emerge from its chronicles. Reuben Howard is a life-like portrait, and though no exact prototype may exist, he is no fancied or imaginary sketch. Emma Molyneux is another clever delineation, and Roger Farmer likewise attracts attention. More powerful than amusing, and mo re d escr iptive of people than illustrative of events, this work is'one that will not be passed over as ordinary or common-place, but must belong to the superior and lasting. Tile Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer. J. Nichol, Edinburgh. This is another of Mr. Nichol's handsome series of the British Poets, which will, when completed, form a valuable lib:ary edition. Six volumes are issued during the year to subscribers at the low price of one guinea, and the catalogue is to include all the British poets, with the exception, of course, of those whose works are exclusively copyright. Milton, Thomson, Young, and Cowper are already published. Dryden is immediately to follow. The present volume contains the works of three poets— James Beattie, the author of the " Minstrel " and many other well-known pieces, Robert Blair, and William Falconer. A curious coincidence exists between. the two last, the reputation of both de pending on a single poem—few having heard of any thing of Falconer's but his " Shipwreck," and Blair, we believe, having scarcely written anything but " The Grave." We must not omit to mention that Mr. Gilfillan contributes lives of the poets and critical dissertations, the explanatory notes being wisely restricted to mere pieces of information in the margin. The paper and type are both excel lent—the latter is indeed unusually distinct—and, though the size is somewhat cumbersome for ordi nary perusal, as a library edition it is without doubt the handsomest that has appeared for some time. A Ramble through Normandy. By G. M. Mus grave, M.A. Bogue. This is an unpretending volume, which does not narrate any lengthened travels, or describe un known countries. Tho author has found enough to interest himself and his readers in a sketching ex cursion through two or three of the nu merous de partments of France. The writer s t arted on his expedition at the time when the French camp WAS established at Boulogne, which, of cour se , h e visited. With th is except ion the book has no re lation to the stirring t o p ics whi ch at present en gross so much attention. The writ er t a k es much i n t ere st in architectural and antiquari an t op i cs, and. gives much information respecting the life of Willi a m the Conqueror, of whom, n a t ura ll y, manytraces are still extant in Normandy. Tke illustra tions are numerous, and give th e rea d er a goo d idea of some of the figures represented. The varieties of the famous Normandy caps are amusing, but, sad to relate, these wonderful head-dresses are falling into disuse. The neglect of them which now prevails is chiefly attributable to the intro duction of cheap conveyances, so that the lower classes no longer journey about on foot, or on a horse, as before, and their great height, sometimes two feet, forbids their entry into an ordinary vehicle. On high days and holidays, therefore, when it is absolutely indivonsable to appsar in full costume, the dames of Normandy often wear a small cap for travelling, carrying the inconvenient appendage in the lap.. The author is very favour ably disposed towards the French, a sentiment which, at the present time of cordial amity, will meet with general recognition. lie affirms his journey to have been solely in search of archmo logy and the picturesque. He is himself quite satisfied with what he found, and it is-to be hoped his example will convince his more adventurous readers, that, should they feel disposed to travel , they may find much to interest and amuse them i n " A Ramble through Normandy." The English Cyclopcedia. Bradbury and Evans. This valuable work has now reached the twenty secolid part, continuing the publication of geo graphy and natural history, which two sections will Bedford and Bletchl ey , Bucicgl)anash. Mydesdale Jc Col.StourVy. Sad. and Hal. E. Li.lcolngr 6 per cent. IGlfts. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Gistr.& Dn. FS firth - A. Dk. Railway Elan & Selby Do, A Sharov. Do. Shares. Lon . & Creenv f)o. Pre ferenet Loa., Til., & Lowestoft gr. 1 4 per cent. Do. (i per C. Extu and Matlock 111,1:16,1)ro' Ite,dcar. ITidl,l.llradfd Northern an , ' ' Easternsp.c Do. 6 per et.' Do. Fixeds p ?rest. & Wyr' Do. Simms. apystu.32. Md. Roth.nne , Gooleg. 5 p.c. ;.Staffordsli. •ArearValleygi . i 6 per cent Do Wiltskgonirst I London & I N. West. L. &N. W. Oaledon... E. Un. S' 'Gt.Nrthn. Caldonian. Gt. Wes Irk. Now. & her w. Y. &NM Do Eastor , D. ...... Veto St Co Norfolk... & W & Midlfl itektou & Darling t. EL Count ao N.W. &Lugal- GtNorthr UtneashSt Yorksh. A. 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No. XVII. By W. M. Thaokoray ' . Extraordinary progress has been made by our novelist in the devetopment of the plot of his pre sent narrative, within the compass of the three ' notable chapters hero published. Our dear old Colonel Thomas Nowcome discovers the villainy, or rather the little priggish, petty, mean rascality of Sir Barnes—giving the latter, thereupon, " a bit of his mind," in the presence of his clerk, Mr. Bolthy, and. of Uncle Hobson, within the sanctuary of the unsuspecting back parlour of the great city banking-house. The whole scene is delightfully real in every particular, from the Colonel's " Ah !" of satisfaction, directly Sir Barnes makes his ap pearance, up to the climax of the gallant old trump's outburst ,of indignation. Trump we call him on the authority of his beloved son Clive, as uttered by that brave but gentle artist (painter and glazier, as he is called by Crackenthorpe of Ours), in the most exquisite little incident re counted this month by Mr. Thackeray. The fond and manly fraternisation. of father and sou, in Clive's atelier, in the presence of Arthur Pendennis and George Warrington—when the Colonel lays his hand on young Clive's shoulder, and stroking the youth's yellow moustache, asks if Barites really sent no answer to the challenge : Clive having but that moment sketched an illustration to those charming and tender lines of Sir Walter-- "He turned hi■ charger as he spake, Beside the river shore ; He gave his bridle rein a shake, With adieu for evermore, My dear ! ' Adieu for evermore !" George and Pendennis trolling cut as the colonel enters— " Adieu for evermore, My dear ! Adieu for evermore !" It is scarcely possible for any one really "up" in the story, and alive to the sweet and natural pathos of Mr. Thackeray, to read without a moistening of the eyes the result of the colonel's query as he rests his hand upon his son's shoulder, and smilingly strokes Clive 's yellow moustache :—"Clive broke out into a laugh that was almost a sob. He took both his father's hands. 'My dear, dear old father,' says , he, what a—what an—old--trump are ! No wonder Arthur Pendennis adds, when recounting the eircumstance—" My eyes were so dim I could hardly see the two men as they embraced." For they both stand, serene, but sad at heart, under the shadow of a great home calamity—lane affaire de ectur—Ethel being the be trothed of Princekin, otherwise of the Most Hon. Fergus Angus Malcolm Mango Rey, twenty-fifth Earl of Glenlivat and Rossmont, and third Mar quis of Farrintosh, is tho peerage of Scotland. Hobson Newcome thinks it jolly to be uncle to a marquis. Young Mr. Samuel, his son, is, if pos sible, yet more vulgarly elated at the prospect of so lofty a connexion—young Mr. Sam, of whom Laura Pendennis could not help saying to her hus band, that she thought the said Sam "an odious little creature." And, by the way, how wonder fully our friend Pen wins upon our affections, now that his conceit and coxcembry are sweetened into marital wisdom under the womanly influence of the gentle Laura. Never was such an im provement in novel hero from the time when young Martin Chuzzlewit returned unselfish from the' wilds of the backwood Paradise. If we can speak thus, however, of the wifely influence of Mrs. Arthur Pendennis, what can we say of the Lady Clara, wife of Sir Barnes Newcome ? What—but that we dread in her re gard a catastrophe in relation to her old " Jack Belsize, now Lord Highgate. Perhaps the next number will show whether or not our anxie ties in this particular are promatnie. Th e re are sundry matters in the instalment now before us yet demanding reference in wo rds of no stinted commendation. Instance —the entomological sketch of the character of Sir Barnes Newcom..! (who goes about his life's business "as a bug crawl;, and stings, and stinks,") dashed oil with the case and vigour of a master-band, in that finest speech that has yet fallen from the lips of the usually too taci turn -(Gorge Warrington. Ins lance, like wise, the confab on horseback, in the park, between our dear old Colonel and General Sir George Tufto (surely another. name, if we mistake not, for General Sir Thomas de Boots), where the padded warrior says to Colonel Newcome that he re torted upon the unexpected poltroonery of Sir Barnes, by exclaiming "Dash me, sir, if you don't want me, why the Sash do you send for me, dash me ?" adding, " A. 22 is your man, Sir Barnes Newcome." Instance finally; the tragic event re corded at the close of the present number, in the announcement of the sudden death of the witch like sister of the late Marquis of Steyne (renowned in the annals of " Vanity Fair ") ; in other words, the decease one night, ni her velvets and ermine, 50 25 121 12 20 be comploted in the course of the proNer v ,- . _ The third volume will be ready in Marcl'ot fourth will shortly follow, thus completing Wa s the four divisions of the work. The remaining portions, sciences and arts, and biography and history, will then be issued in the same manner, thus forming a work of reference including all the great branches of general knowledge. MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES. The National Miscellany opens with a paper on the North-Eastern provinces of Turkey.. Certainly is no other benefits result from the much-talked-of Eastern question, it ought to have very much in creased our geographical knowledge. An essay on mottoes and devices is one of the most attrattiv• in the number. The articles in this magazine are usually of a superior class ; and this month there are several on subjects of interest.—Sharpc's - Lon don Magy;:ine is of a more entertaining and lighter character. Its contents generally consist of tales and sketches. The chief among these are " The Cogi tations of Mrs. Clarinda Singlehart" and " Harry Coverdale's Courtship", by our old friend, Frank Smedley, which is also appearing in shilling monthly parts. llogg's Instructor has several interesting topics. A paper on the "Cephalopods ; or, Cattle Fish Tribe," gives m uc h new and curious i nforma ti on respecting them. " Si ster Anne, " is a pleas i ng domestic story, by the author of " Ethel." New ton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences is now reduced to a shilling, but the contents are in no way inferior. The usual description of recent patents is given with illustrative diagrams, to gether with the scientific reports and adjudications of the month. The Patriotic Fund Journal is a magazine whose proceeds are to be devoted, as the name implies, to the Patriotic Fund. The contents are chiefly connected with the war, giving brief memoirs of the most illustrious generals, &c., and describing the events of the battles and the siege. Some of the verses on this subject are of a superior kind. The Family Friend is an excellent little serial, the best of the kind. Bente Thoughts, and Our Friend, which is now called The Englishman's Magazine, are of a more ambitious description. The Statist, and _Evangelical Christendom, are serials devoted to a particular class of readers. The Statist is the most generally i n t eres ti ng ; some o f th e s t a ti s ti c s' given being c ur i ous an d use f u l . Th e Youth's Ma gazine and Pe nn y P ost, are c h eap and s i mp l e mis cellanies for juvenile readers. Le Follet has, as usual, the pre-eminence over all our English books of fashion from the Parisian taste and elegance with which it is conducted. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY). COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.—Before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.) COOKE AND ANOTHER V. WILDER. This was an action for libel in which the plaintiffs, who are printers at Maidstone, sought to recover da mages to the amount of 5001. for an alleged _libel by the dbfendant, who is deputy clerk of the peace for th• county of Kent. The plaintiffs it appeared had been employed by the county to print the register of voters as their prede., censor in business, Mr. Hall, had done. Mr. Hall had been in the habit of charging 140/. for the work, and the plaintiff continued to do it at the same price. Finding, however, that in consequence of a rise in price in mate. rials, &c., it did not pay then at that rate they applied to the defendant for an increase, stating at the same time that they had written on the subject to three Lon• don printing firms, and that the lowest estimate for the work was from Messrs. Shaw, who said they could not do it under 235/. The defendant subsequently wrote to Messrs. Shaw, and eventually agreed with the to do the work on much lower terms, and in his report to the Finance Committee, with reference to the transaction, he alleged that the plaintiff had "attempted to extort . money from the county by his representation." Thil report was read before the magistrates at the ensuing sessions, and formed the ground of the present action. Sergeant Byles, with Mr. Phinn, were for the plain. tiffs, and Sir F. Thesiger and a junior couniel, for the defendants. Sir F. Thesiger submitted to the Court that the pre. sentation of the report in question was a priyileged• transaction, that it wa the duty of the defendant in hie official capacity to state his reasons to the Finance- Committee for taking the printing out of the hands of the plaintiffs, and that in reading the report at the Sus• sious he was only obeying the command of the mien.' trate. Lord Campbell concurred in this, excepting so far as regarded the words quotod above, whielt he said he must put_ to the jury. The cane was proceeding► when our reporter left. kiliTirSittPLltt d 's ) 1 4.014 -Ws - Nt,r 4 f 0... ;: 0i , ~,:1 >1145 . q o pfr. )6':--r , 4 ,4,74 1 ,, - 4>, - LLOiIYS SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Fob. s. —Wind and weather this day at noon, S. W. Light airs and dull hazy weather. There was . some little rain yesterday, and it is thawing fast. CRAV ES usn, FA. 5. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Balsar.. from Bremen. Sailed—Europa (s.s.), for Sydney, N,S.l7tr,,i Alexander Wise, for Kurrachee ; Sir James 'toss, for Valparaiso. The Maria Grey, which sailed hence. on the 21 lust., for Calcutta, put back yesterday, having been ea shore on the Margate Sands. RAINISGATIL, Feb. 4.—A quantity of wreck, apparently from an old colonial built ship, of about 400 tons, has coins on shore, supposed from the William Carson, lost on the Kentish Knock. _ . MARGATE, Feb. 4.—Part of the starboard side of it ship, fir built, with painted ports, was found yesterday off Om North Foreland. DEAL, Feb. 4.—H. M. S. Lizard sailed yesterday fot the river, with the remainder of tho cargo of the Fanny (schocne ), wrecked on-the Goodwin Sands. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. s.—Arrived—Madrid (e.), from Gibraltar, &c. PLYMOUTH, Fob. 3.—Wind, S.— Arrived—Bacchante (s.s.), from the West Coast of Allies; on freight 3,000 UZ9 : of gold. RYE, Fob. 3. Wind, S.E.—Arrived—Concordia, from Liverpool to Dordt, towed in disabled ; the running gear had frozen, and tho sails were cut away to prevent the mast going over the side. ST;RCROSS, Feb. 4.—The ship Laurel, on shore near Sidmouth, has broken up ; cargo lost, part of materials saved.. Y.o.mouili, Feb. s.—The brig Eden, of Sunderland, went on shore last night at Gorlesten ; crew saved. The William and Mary, of Whitby, has come on shore; crow saved by the life-boat. lanwicH, Feb. 4.—The Ocean Queen, from Marseilles to Lyun, brought up in this harbour during the gale of 30th Jan., was run into by H.M.S. Horatio on the Ist inst., and was strained. JERSEY, Feb. 1. Wind E.—Sailed—St. Brelade, for Pernambuco. CLYDE, Feb. 3.—Sailed—City of Benares, for Caleutts ; William Gibson, for Bombay. Arrived—Wild Horse, from Windsor, U.S. BOULOGNE, Jan: 31.—The Caradoc, of Bangor, Wales. from Limerick to London, which was on shore at Portal. near here, has been got off. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.50 11.1 H; Wind, S.W. ; tide, low water; fine. No arrivals. DEAL, Monday, 9.27 cm. Wind, W.S.W. ; light and hazy. No arrivals. • ANXSTIIESIA BY COLD IN SURGICAL OPERATIONS. The follow To ing TH a vx e D ar n ed oit in o S p at T u H r E da L y Ail 's C L E a T n . cct ; Sir,—The experience of the last few weeks has proved to my complete conviction that local anaesthesia can be obtained by the benumbing influence of ice, with• out resorting to the administration of chloroform, which by its subtle power renders infrangible the system generally, and occasionally produces those fatal effeals to which almost every surgeon can bear testimony, I have tried the ice in several cues, in both hospital and private practice, and in almost every instance the success was evident, the patient when blindfolded being ignorant of the use of the knife. It affords MO great pleasure to confirm the evidence of Dr. Arnott upon this interesting subject, and to draw the serious attention of surgeons, both at home and abroad, to this agent, whereby patients can be freed from the lain which attends many every-day operations we are called upon to treat with the knife, and reserve chloroform few those very severe cases where either the duration of dm operation or the depth of structure requires the employe ment of that potent agency.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, TIIO3IAS WAKLET, F.R.C.S. Arlington-street, Feb., 1855. Two THOUSAND POLICE OFFICERS FOR THE CRIMEA. 7 -In consequence of a communication from her Ma jesty's Secretary of State to Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of the 111etropolitan Police, that gentleman has called upon the su perintendents in tke force to report to him and recommend any inspectors, sergeants, and private constab les who ma y feel it. drivers, and corporals. coned to volunteer and form a transport corps in the Crimea. The body' is to consist of a quartermaster, be 2,000. ThE're are to be 1,400 driv,ig, at a pay each of 3s. per day, and 2s. 641.. each for the lower &ass, clothing and rations to be given Tug sergeants i s ) g o a l ; of Bu P t : e l tae i r :v t l c i it i n s t q ' o in addition. The efli,!er is to receive 1001. for an outfit, hut the candidate must be in every respect effi cient, capable of holding lier M a j es ty' s co mmission, raid qualified to associat e w i t h the ofcers in the British army. T The sum of 2 s. per day is to be added for field allowance beyo n d per day. the regular pay. The principal officer is to be allo we d a horse of his own select i on , a t cos t p r i ori to the gove rnment. His s t an di n salary is to be Be. 'Gel, Pensions are also to 'be allowed to the MOM whe may be engaged in the event of their receiving wounds whilst on duty iu the East. It is proposed to raise 800 second-class drivers, who are to be officered by. about 100 men of the different grades of non-commies sioned officers. 0 1 LI 16 5 31i all all 20 50 20 25 86 5} 211 i 7m.