The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-27 00:00:00

---- '0 ►ere very adily, oa ,rade wf&S is rates• firmer for cy. The of wheat ;eived 1 1 P i gn were , _,13 polo 01 r market was ba t as year's , the PI" no mes a : chases 0., ve, at an f from 21 ensivelf, increased he rates this do irgoes, st )er clus r. to ss dear fides 1o• g ilite 0 0 eery ; at fr° ° arer• 705 t° ll° I 301 25 5 is • 98 5 3 20 . 0 , ~265 go 21$ 419 -41 3. 4 30 sgs of " 39 5 4 5 43 5 4 ,2 65$ -- 41 50 , of 483 r. ably g" the ° °t : 3, 0 03 , 28 ' i(), reg. rig!: 1 •.• .- .. ... ~ • ••• 4 L... 4,0 ; - ~ i 10) [der 3. 11; ; 55 ". 3 46 rios ••• ;ti 0f,00%, diSt C h i : On' he (111 (4° ;or Si btj ‘ isule g o i par' a scati o heir `if, adfi'Av- tho. f°r 6st If" ora 2 4 i° ( 1 ' d. . 5 f 0 JO 4 4 4 0 3lO 6 4 6 0 0 0 3° 0 0 g 5 L I. 1, 9 1 ..• • 4 6 , ...• 10 •" . f r i4 ice , 0 00 argot k et ' Ot II 139 f 0,8 5 °' a , 4. 'i 5 4 4 4 1 0 4 1. 0 6 1 0 8 4 6 4 6 0 ' rf i°"10. oft jlei O le e ° I) al !P s • 1 131 • iiitei la t o o ve , il 0 fri 10 ac r - Ae d o. 3° ' flee c° ' 1 1 , ° 1 ' la ; ° 3d; N ee l° - do 440 os 00 9 0 ' 0 5 4 10 1 45 72 5 6 55 TO 70. c, 1 0 'o f 1. 60 On 12 6 9, , 1 , 0 !, 401 0 0 Ino A ,. Z 5. ------1 1 1 / . 34 'ltc s ) 6s ; , fi 2 1 23. `f 104 13 ,961 1 °I 34 ifea redll i" e too , Nog b ig left gor e pa 1 ' / pa tio old . e d leo' 'IIIONEY 71. A [MET AND °OZATER OL4 L INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoCK. e i 4: 110 Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday 14, 4 ste adily, and with a g ood demand. The ve - wer e estimat e d a t 6 , 000 b a l es (500 o f w hi c h 11 a .._, t e taken f or expnrt), comprising 230 Pernam 441.Maranhain at 61d. to 6id., 100 Egyptian at ‘alici`' t° 1,000 Su ra t a t 4d t o 40., and 50 Sea i i at 11d, t o i s. 2d. per lb . I n t h e R a il way t i o a .. re Market there was little change, the market ng dull. th eat iA 2s. t o 3s. dearer in Mark-lane to-day h nn Monday la s t. toms aeco nnts from H am b urg it i s s t a t e d that th e tha r used at th e b om b ar d men t o f S wea b org , bot i long sent out from England, had not stood ible an y instances, becoming quite unservice kaills't splittin g a f ter some h ours ' fi r i ng . Th e 1 4 1 1 1 " t een were occasionally so enraged as to t ettl ce throw the mortars overboard. The Allied to% W ere still ac ti ng r i gorous ly i n th e G u lf o f Theret)4 are advices from Sydney by the Ocean R eea t ate te a-% late a date as June 3, not to June 23, ktnim as the Times, of which the merchants tpc ai n too frequently misleading its readers ° Iltl i : 11 „ 4 _, dates, the error, however, being always Fide that makes that journal appear to pas -100 -4101 later intelligence than it really has. The kiro t i t markets were s till i mprov i ng , a lth oug h th e t 4 h, ase a were mo d era t e . Th e a d v i ce' s o f M arc h t kt:Ongland, intimating that the shipments left V Si de were much more limited, had a good b ut it i s on l y a cessat i on o f h eavy s hi pmen t s Qat atI Y Months, according to a local price current, i ktl Can bring about a satisfactory state of affairs, V b el'ent the accumulation of ruinous ware -11:4 and other c ha r ges. The banks having 44,, f8 Zd their rate of exchange to 4 premium, dis kiti e n had occurred among the mercantile 11 , 114 3', as they h - td generally made up their Nb i :t sales at the previous rate of 3 per cert. The S 4 : 4l4l stit of a m i n t, it wa s hoped, would in ''b4 ,he 1 facilities of r e mittance, and diminish the !kel t t 7 the shipment of bullion merely to get tl lO l 4l . With respect to the expected increase ';ki th ' r iff, an ad valorem duty was recommended quarters. The amount of gold brought !ot*i t t the last escor t t o S y d ne y was 4,203 ounces . N4v,_4tallding recent arrivals of immigrants, n lalt '°orers and shepherds found ready employ ,aud were wan t e d u p th e country. Th e `. oB en brings 90,0001. in gold. rt h po nne lligence received to-day from New York Itock co ntinued buoyancy and activity in the 411arket, owing to the abundance and cheap . - : 1 "e3 7 . The arrivals of specie from Cali v tli nv er e large and the shipments were likely to 4 18 rei g in n i eh e e21 ? Owing to the decline in the rates t l / 4 4 4 4t ' oft ange. During th the week ending the value of imports exceeded !t t o 4nt .lB exports by 2,056,483 e dollars. No li t , movement had occurred in bread lthk4lof c : r ewere . a few shipments in small quan rieab Liverpool and the British North th e "lonies, but it would he some be 11.the f.,leil)o!tation became active.. _ rit ob i Zlng railway hills received Royalth d e suh lt: 4 4 t rti • eday, Aug. 14 :—London ll an i t West asgow, Dumbarton, and e ß e . R. and . -P.? and Brentford ; Stokes ay tlZ e ,esteral:h. r ; Derbyshire, Staffordshire, T ana Pikl 3 nara to No (so. 2) ; Westminster Termini ;V° railvva:rw, °). calls" due in September are as 111 Co mpany. .0 Rotterda Date due. Call. Amount, I h ttt .......... ra bonds 1 5 . .....X10 0 0... £20,000 1 0 0... 6,500 g ,) ' '' 't t ?ta n i d :l 4 / 1 1 • Paid 25...' 2 0 0... 200.000 114-""., 21. paid 25... 2 0 0... 200,000 lh~iTtern Red., 5 per 10... ref. 101. 10... 2 0 0... 265,000 1/4.k,kr°l,& Redcar, new 4 0t; 4 'n at 4 preen ; 1... Meuse 101. Pref , t, t at 1 die 15... 2 0 o...unknown barling., N ew 2s/ 1 0 0... 16,000 3 0 0.. 54,000 £761.500 Total calied in 15 X 11,163,965 t kilw ay meetings announced are the follow- ) 4N'A i b t, r aPan Y' Date. Place. 11,,izr and . Aug 29, London Tavern. ktiNl C arnarvo ...... Aug . . 31, Chester. 4111: 11' ........ n . Aug. 9, London Tavern. kit Au:: 27, Blackburn. V I " 1 t,foi..; Aug. 31, London Tavern. - E NE % ", and Mid. Jun. Aug. 28, London. qhtli;:lhl ve nd Dumbarton. Aug. 29, Glasgow. ) il l k u i c ' i lighall sit li t . -uro g b a Aug. 30, Dublin. kb and En ' e kt, vi tt _ niskillen • ,441t i,: t 111 114 ,7••• .......... . slit ''aad ikiki,Qo,l4l•••i.. Il tte 'rth, 1" hod,, ', a nd Dundee Aug. 31, Edinburgh. ~;rediton ! l i i i k &, ~ rte Ed. 1 soA ri _ on, sze Aug. 27, Preston. t i l tz be %,", and Monkland Aug. 29, Glasgow. t i -`414/,,(4 S outh -Western Sept. 5, Glasgow. , iNkr u l t f t ... n d 'Yorkshire l i 'd, .Z 4 ll t ,urcl, and Halifax Aug. 31, Bradford. 1 4 N •W e V I , k titet •;‘ t • of Ireland Sept. 7, Dublin kiS;l k her .Xtert m on tit' Eon and Rereford Aug. 30, London Tavern. 1 011k.likillen I` ) tt, be . ;;;., .......... . OiVi:',,k`lt.a. gt opti %t l fr o :n ........... If t g)l 44 , liV or lahire Sept. 11, London Tavern. k,44 4 6 3' , 'el *, and Wol Aug. 28, London Tavern. N I ,. Ittkin. tN.4441, Quebec, Class A Aug. 30 Parliament-street. Yli rt ° 41 ., 6 th oev o ditto N 11 . k t it ,Nter ( i !th ai, ti t t Cit iet ro t i r 4;: r,,ttit.,'V r ,k,. l e - ... .. V' t3 01 14 It tk i e zhin & Wokg Aug. 28. London Tavern. i ktl , Te i , t , Essendine Vet r ,lti art u ri ... .............. Aug. 29, Neat h. %tfp'sw illl Limerick q ; , Orb. .................. Ang.-.29. Penzance. Veto *lt ............... ... Aug. 29, York. Vit t '? c) t. % __ . .................. Oct. 30, York. 'ttlo‘l, ll 7ltserland Aug. 25, Moves. ll N' , c ri qt ZcluiFurness Jun. Aug. 30, 3. Gu . ildhall-buildge tt i lt ti :t , lll l.ith Croydon ... Aug. 31. Parliament-street. 'lc Il k , w ark branch of the London and West ',l sn tb ri ` c is to be admitted to the clearing e e v,. e same tht , i t h il i r ut , nie footing as a separate hank. 1 , t iR to Qs are extremely dull, and there is 1 .11 1 11 stimulate speculation. Consols have Ile 4t, both tti l e a _ for money and account. The r ) biZltie t , 7,j, Cents. are 91:1 to 92. the New 92a /.. `t‘ 3% . -a wls bring 13s. to 175., and India ilkrAt ti _ .Prernium. Bank Stock is .nominal. oteiztiTties are 16 15-16. ' 1a 1 1 ‘;tth:e.ettrities are inactive, but Turkish scrip llkli.ll,,, ‘ , l rnproved, being 2i to 21 premium. ay Iris are 931 to /. Spanish Passive Stock ( Ili 'eeii ' and the New Deferred 19. Peruvian o . la c 81i to 82. Russian 5 per Cents. are 4 - N . 4311 nwi t oki .-...q r ng are the nominal prices of foreign tt,,,, t ii, e nada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7i ; ,th, l , Thr ee u i to 22/ ; Peruvian, 81i to 82i ; z i ., p et Per Cents., 581 to 591- ; Portuguese . 31f"eilt, Cents.. 43 to 45 ; Russian Five ,P 1 t i ) st 6„i„,100 to 102 ; ditto Four-and-a- I ttfl r ° lg u "*. 89 to 91 : Spanish New Deferred, h lli,ifi g n _dittn Three per Cents., 37i to 3 8 ; N tk e N i ctek 41 to 4/ ; ditto Passive, 4/ to 4? i . 1 14 4 4, W ay Share Market presents a quiet ap , . atd in o rs T he ost of the quotations are a shade ,'el ' o'reat hoes, chiefly dealt in are Great North- N tl ial l lz restern, and North Western. The Isth. er takings are very quiet, and also the It titi l eett 1 4 Qa. at 4, 4%4 e . n eglected, banks in limited favour, a nd are lower. General Screw are 126_ 'qixt I'INT, t.... -.R THIS DAY AT ON T. o'oT.r , . l "Oe " 4 ( " P t the Oflieial List. 1 t t'ts. o tlt, 'R ea Rwonos. don, t:, , *3 40 4. q n . '"ed Atinnitiss . • 91i 2 kl:let es , Annnities -". 911 .1 lil i l ttu Z i ties, R it z r'lities .... ~. .. . ..... 9n i t h i ; t ll o , 44e Y eartg, E l'. .sth Tan.. 1 . . R An , 4 1-16 iii4l. ter tionfi zpire sth April, 1885 16 15.16 30 tk eh kr / te r t lOnn '• • -* 30 Pl'avr lit Gill September ... E.. 's6 4 " I , 2j' I 241. ........ I t I t . Insii ............... - ....... 11ii , 1i0t........ , ................... I 1 1 , 1, r.... ........ 1 '2% 41858 i - - --- - ' - I - 'ov i ' (11• 1 i . • 1 Per Cent-. 1001 lt b tit t o /1 Eel:kr/11E1'0N FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 4 1:47. 1 kI l ii °1 ' the 8 4 _ 4 _ o l Par Cent - gi ' t k h 11: 31145 , lg '' 22 llnt B'l 2 b. to 1 ,,, i Ms, 3. , 5 Per Cent. £St lOll 1 1.1' t e e l° b e r a Der Cent h.ikt, -Rasei , ,,, 'red, 3 per Cent. - 19 b.tta ;' 11 (14 .............. 4i e , „._ . he , e , s __ cent Lt lis l. "" qt.* z•-,''tertnnt 93 I, 'ee n c ct r . P. 4 per Cent .. 2i tt,•At. iht,v eq. in Londoll. HALP•PAST TWO. 4 14 01 • •• b, ................ ~ ---- ' -04 / 1 21 titw!stettitsoeits 911 t!3 ti ARE MARKETS (THIS DAY.) gAILIV LYS. RAILWAY/. Prices Mat Business done this day. 25 - 27 4 - 42 8 - 8i 13i -- 13 .54 - 16 8 i - 7i 91 - 93 63 63: U 13 8 - 10 ••• "" •• 3 - 2 14 - 15 lli 11i 73 - 75 54 - 56 9 - 91 18 - 20 71 - 73 89 - 9u 69 - 71 .7 9I 105 1 07 56i 56i 55 60 73 - 76 64. 64 70 83 834 74. 71# 99 95 —95 i rd 1 - 85 46 6i 6,3, 5i -1 • •• .. - 74 71 . 71i 41 - 43 15 10 24 50 -- 52 73A . 744 7 - 64 3i 124 - 134 484 494 47 49 Id 61 6i 6 61 d 27 • - 29 67 109 75 77 44 46 , 3 i 14! 62 63 31 32 4 - 3 2d pal 38 - 40 5 - 54 21 23 3 - 21 - 23 5 7 3 2d par - ip Pale. St. 100 iAberdeen........ 1.24 8. Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct O 1.1.1 Belfast, & Ballyntev, !: , q 431 l4irming. Welt Stour Vali cy ') a Rirk Lancsi !Ilieshire Junct , 16 sP 1)o. Cheah. & £5O and £25 d i Do., £20... ..... :5 all 7 tlyth &Tyas origins £25 (issd. at ,Dt• it. 100 Hrjstol and Exeter—. it 100 "aledonian. .0 61s Carmarthen and Ca digan al. , Chester dt Holyhea i 0 all Cork and Bandon. :0 all Cork, Black, & Pas. !O 16 Cornwall 1 lel' Junction. 45 indtßelfastJune all Dundee PerthdrA2r. teen Junction all Do. N 100 tgast AL glian 411 14",a.stern Counties 100 141 astern Union, A Stock 10 Da., R Stote, SA Do., New A 1(X) .-last Lancashire 10C, Edinburgh& Masao' , all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. PTO &Duirlhe 9 L'orth & Clyde Ju . all Furness. all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S West , 100 ;rest Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 'OO Do., B. Stock 1)( (It. Sth. &West.ar ,- iOO treat Western..... be D., Stour Val Rail Gua. Stk.. all hash South-Easter ill Lancaster & Carlis e 4i Do., Thirds.. 7 Do. New Thirds 11,0 Lancash.andVorksh D Wst. Riding Uri. all Liv:Crsby .&Southpt all London & Blackwaii 100 ;,oncl. Bright & 100 Cond. anti N. West , " 1 6 Do. Fifths . 54 Do.lo/.Sh.,M&B C V I )0. Eighths........ 1 .00 !iondon andS. Westi 474 Do., £5O. '8 Do., £4O. all f ,ndndrry& Col erain• all Lndndrry. & Ennlst • 100 Nlanch.Bhe.k Line! all Do. I Shares, No. 1 525. Man. & Lin. Un ..0 Midland 100 .0. Birmng. &Derl ill Midi& G. West. (Ile, all I 10. Half Shares.... ill Newcastle & Carlisl. 23 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf 8 • Awry & Enniskill , all Newry Warrenpoli, ui Rostrevor 1 .0 '-;orfoll:, `Torthn.Countiee 1 1 1. 140 North British ..„ all North Devon. No • all 1 , 0., No. 2 all 0., A Deferre all Do., 11 Guarami, 1' el N. Eastern—Berwi , 20 Do. do. Extension 13 do. G.N. E. Pure' A Do. Le.'ds.. 0(1 1/o. York Nortli London all Do. New £lO 3 Wstrii., Ram . • stead, and City 'orth Staffordshi... a! North Western.,...,. .&I.Westrn.Jun Nuneaton, and Leicester.. f )xforcl, Worcest".r, , i , wolverhampton 8 'ortsmouth i H. Se,..,;:ish Central . Scottish Midland 100 ,-;tlropshire Union a , •:.nutb Devon South Eastern an South Wales . 1 Yrksh. & Riv. Dm. Po i nes , Wok &Wok al Stockton Darli. St6 - :,kten & linrtlep , ► . X Tart Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 1,4) Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Raven Do& and Rnilwas ...... . . ITlverstone & Lanes. ail Vale ), Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenn , Waterford&Limer all West Cornwall 5 West End of Londo, and Crystal Palace. V' • all (West London. 0 all iWimbledn&Croydon 25 i FOREIGN. all Antwert,itti.ott .1.1“ 4 it,ivian Eastn. Jun, 10 I Beziers to Graiss,sap, Bombay ,Baroda,au' Central India.Scri all Demerara 10 I 1 )ntcl. Rll eni sh .. .. all Eastern of FrancA 10 Do. New All East Indian, g. 5p A 10 Do, E7'.ension 41 Do. 43 p. c. lids., pa' '57, convertible... Do. do. do., '59, do 1.7 Gd Tk of Can ari aA i i) Do. St. Lawrence , Atlantic do.. ..... 70 1 , 0. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till 'A all "o Comp. 6p. c., do to Gt. Centralof Fran all Ut Indian Peninsuk guar. 5 per cent. 1 1.0. ' , Jew 5 per cent 2 ;o. Extensions.... all { Do. do 3 Great Luxembour Constituted Slrtre , all Do. Obligations... . slt Ot.Westernofeanaci Shares di Do. Bds., payable'F , with option till '55. al' Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Dc.. do., '73, withoni option all Hamilton tic Toront, all I Do. 6 per cent. 14 I hake Cong.. & Baal v.ll 1 Lucca & Piatoj a 5 p. 4. prof 10 Lyons and Geneva ... I 14 Lyons & Mediterran all Madras 10 Do. New 31 Maria Antonia 311 Do. do. New MI Namur Is Liege ; wit gnterest) all Do. (ex interest)... MI Northern of France. all D 0.20/. Shs.late Char teroi and Erquelinep guar. n p. c. & red at 22V.'ciur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bap (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. all NorwegianTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... ill Paris and Rouen... 15 Pari s Caen & Cherbrg a l Rouen and Havre all T.oyal Danish 3 Royal Swedish...... ill Sambre and Meuse all Do. 5:1 p. ce)lt. Pref 2s Seinda all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) r.. 1! West Flanders all Do &A per c. Prof_ 18 Western of France Lr West. of Switzerland all WiJsbadeD Zealand 9 10 2 2 - - ••• - • :481 A& 12 -13 2! 24i 2! - 6 - 5 8 - 19 65 671 954 - 960 5 - 5i - 5i iP IP 3i 3 1 2i 38 23i 2 , t 100 102 115 1 18 115 120 108 1 09 4i 2 4 : 114 - 116 7 - 8 191 - 2O p, 1 2 p 7 9 2 - 3 51 - 5i i6i 121 12! R - 9 481 - 48 - 50 51 - 52 - 27 28 20 - 21 - 11 , 9i - 9i - 11 - 2ip - pm 4 - 44 iii .... 13 pl • •• '''''' ; 1 - 4 -19 t 101NT , 4 ,, N Ka ~stmiktsia.... ~ r itish Colonial Bank and Loan Company sritish N. American Ohartd. Bank of Asia Thrtd. Bra. of India, Australia, & China City .. 3010n , al Commercial of Lond t4lnglish Scottish and Australian Chart tond. Chart. Bk. of Australia Ditto New London and County.. i.ondon Joint Stock.. mid. & WeFtminete•T' 'stational Provincia' of England Do. New National of Ireland Sew South Wales )riental Bank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New tort] &ligroin. 131/ g. At Hold Imp Co. Au,tralia Union of Australia, Do. New GrAiclu of Logdoi 94 95 66 - 68 fd—ip d - 7 - 191 200 - Id 3g 40 ~ -- .• .•• ••• 35 - 36 42 - 43 52 - 53 39i 40 73 74 8 ---- 9 sse St. 20 St. St. IFt to 5 20 18 20 16 90 i 0 5 5 A 4 0 \ 5 i 0 , 20 ;o 110 ',O I all 0 ali 15 ail 15 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27 1855 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasi.a. Compan k0.41n , . Saturday. L 61 ,L; RArLwars. Bedford and Bleizbley Bnckghamsh. Clydesdale Jo. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc. Glas. Barr. St Neils. Direct Do. New...... It. 100 ;t. 100 6 24 mo t.(10'1 It. 100 :5 411 London & N. We't. L. &N. W. Calotion._ E. Un. & E. C Gt. Nrtnn Caldonian4 15 I all 12i dl all ;0 31] LO all 3t. 100 NI all it. 1 1 . 3 t 54 V) di (.t , all ii till Pr all t 2, 41 St 0 10 all ►U fi An It. 100 1 1 sal LOB. tri 6 ill 1 di I ill sO 4.11 1 4 0 till 5 1 3t. al 1.5 All 2 1 - ?.0 411 4A! all 51 I ;.all .4u Glstr.dt Du Fr Trrtlnl. Dk & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preferen e Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per at. Manch. %tn. and Matlock Middles'oro' & Redcar Mifild.Bradti Newmarket Bury Eaten N.& Est.s p.a. Do. 6 per at. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyre Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth an, Goole g. 5 p. e. Shrews. &Her S. Sts.ffordsh Wear Vali eygr 6 per cent Do.. Gt. West! (k. New. Benc., Y M Do. S. Eagto Do [Peto & Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Stckton & T)arlingt. Midland ) Xll .5 A 1 10 t 2,) 1 (.) 7. V.ll 1 .11 t 1 12*. I I .4 SI.. :100 A. 45ha1l it. 100 ?,0 5 it. 100 5 all En. Coun. E. Coma 'Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt North Lancash& Yorker. T. Braney M. MClemi Stockt & Darlingt !Do 'nmrpt It. 100 L. 100 all W.stn. MI NT F,S . t all tO all al 5 all 10 al) -st. all I Gt. Nun etVeinßeg I Great Polgooth I Liberty Linares.. lii? • B. gu. Fria . . knglo Austrin. 0010 knglo Californian . kustralian kustralian Cornier.. Ave Maria. Raden (Gd.Duehy of Ritenarvon Iron an•' Ooal British Iron.. Brazilianlmp. (issne at £5 pm.) Do. Cocaes k Culab Do St. John De? Re_ Clltrson's Creek—. Clarendon eons. Mir. Co. of Jamaica.... Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copper Vine of En Do. Pref. 7i p. ce Copiapo Englisb and Ansth copper Smeltg Fortuna General it. 10 5 all ;t, 100 ?0 all it. L it. 100 it. 100 t. 1041 74 0 I all t. 100 4U 9 41 g It. t. 10( 3 a.l l 0 I all t. 1 t 3 all al -, ki 6 t. t. 10(' it. 10 t. it. 1100 2-1 ,0 „. 1 Lusitanian ....... via.riquita New Granada....., New Linares Kinin, and Smelting Co. Nouveau Ronde... Pontgiband Load MM. & Smolt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney fron Do. New Santiago de Cuba. South Aust:alian. Tin Croft .. United Mexican Waller West Wariposa,. Worthing Mining , • Aust.%lia 'v nha_. Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. lilyth and Tyn. 1 Owl c. pref. (issd. at 50/) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares claledonian £lO H Mester & Holyhoad Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Cork & Bandons zp.c. .6L Aber. J. . Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. e. Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c. eastern Counties Ex cension, 5 p. c. No 1 )o. No. 2 Flo. New 6 p. c. St vast Un., G. 6 p. c. ro. 5/., 10 ner cent .. , o. 161. Dei3entr.Sl‘. Do. do. 4 per cent :?;ast Lancash. 6 p. nt .&W. York. J. sthp Prth.lkartn.4p., Furne.s p c itreat Northn. 5 p. .o. 5 p. e. Redeem , it 10 p. C. pram. , o. 4i p. Do 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. t 5 p. e. 4t. N. of Scot. ist Pr , 6rw. (Ireland , Do. 4per c. Pr..l Westi.. (Berke 'Tants , Ex. 5 p. Do. con. red. 4 p.c Do, con. red. 4 p. c Do. irreri e . p.e. Do. Rime. ,?ref Sh Do. °nester R p. c.P. c ; Do. do. 5 p. c. do 1)o. Birm, Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. 'Do. do. Do. do. do ...... ..•• an. &York. F. .o. 6 p. C. St ek & Brie) . 10. Pref., 5 p. o. New Guar.6 p. e. Do. dn. 5 per At N. W., Coy. e 4 Nuneaton 5 p. at. S. W. :1,1,3 , I.ondv. kJ - I , er. & Ennis. .-tAn., Sher., & Lin., few. £lO ‘O. £f. l•trypt Ca.rl.4 p 0 4 per cont 91. Consol.6 ho. elnusol. Bristol Pi m . 6 per cent It. 1(10 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. S In - lli 10,, Pref. 4} pc c, 5 all Do. 51. Pr f 4p. c.. it. 100 Ditto Leic, ster ano 1 Hitchen Pref. St. Norfolk Deteuture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Sto Do. 5 p.c. Est Do. .5i per ct . pref... Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British N. E. Berw, 4 p.c P I Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c ~ No.l D. do. Quarters 4 Do.Yorkfi S6= Piq- North Staffordshin Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh.£ls, 6p Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. ,New Pr, South Devon Do. lixed,44 per cent S. Eastern (Readi . Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d, Do. 4i per cent S Wales Gua. 4p. c, Do. do. 4i p. c..., S. Vorksh.4p.c.Gual Stock.& Dar., 5 p. c. Do. do. do Stock. & Fianl. g. 1 p.c. till July I,'R , W aterfd. & Kilk. 6 p, LO, all A 'i 00 A 100 it 100 3t. 100 it 00 it tOO 17 5 20 13 124 9 25 10 ',Limo 10 7 all ?,5 all • 0 tI .0,6 all ,t. 1100 !O I all ;0 I All 5115 24. all 97 - 99 100 - 102 11 -- 12 135,-- 1e•? 29 MS - 110 124 -- 13 23 -- 24 e 1 2i 94 - 96 - 59 ~. 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By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. Edward Moxon. An indifferent poem by an exquisite poet is necessarily a source to his admirers of very grievous disappointment. That disappointment we have ourselves but just experienced. We have risen from the perusal of " Maud, and other Poems," by Alfred Tennyson, with a somewhat poignant re gret that one so rarely gifted as the Poet Laureate should have rushed into print with a volume alto gcther so unworthy of his reputation. That repu tation has happily long since become firmly estab lished—otherwise the apparition of a ghost of a poem like " Maud," must perforce have seriously jeopardised its consolidation. While, however, we are compelled to take exception thus earnestly to the issue of a work by Mr. Tennyson, so unsatis factory as an emanation of his peculiar genius, it must be confessed that we do so principally out of the very fullness of our admiration of powers we conceive to have been, herein, most inadequately represented. Grateful in the recollection of those treasures of poetry which his hand has poured forth sounstintingly into the lap ofhis own privileged gene ration, we are inflamed by mingled feelings of regret and amazement, when we find the merest pebble diop ped from the same honoured palm, the palm which has so often endowed us, as with benefaction after benefaction, with those— " Jewels five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever," — gems of verse, " pearls of great price," floating to us from the golden waters of the Pactolus of Poet land, each, so to speak, " one entire and perfect chrysolite." By the memory of " Locksley Hall" alone we might claim the privilege of protesting against " Maud," as altogether unworthy of Alfred Tennyson. Assuredly, then, we may be permitted so to repudiate this poem as an illegitimate off spring of the intellect of our laureate, when asso ciated with the memory of " Locksley Hall," we cherish in tender recollection " and the " Lotus Eaters," and the " MilleTs Daughter," and " Mariairia," and Lilian," and " Eleanor," and "Margaret," and with those, too, " The Sleeping Beauty," and the " Lady of Burleigh," and " Godiva," and " CEnone," and " Dora," and the , fragment of " Arthur," and all those delicious effu sions of a rare poetic genius—a genius which may be said to have appr , ached its meridian upon the appearance of " The Princess," and to have in a manner culminated on the advent of " In Memo riam." Nevertheless, while protesting against the mere supposition, for one instant, that the thin little volume of 154 pages, entitled " Maud, and other Poems," is to be accepted by us as a not un worthy sequel to productions such as those we have just honeyed the ink in our pen by enumerat ing, it must be added entirely as a matter of course and as it were by a wholly unavoidable necessity, that the " plot" of this same " Maud" is sown thickly, here and there, with sweetest thoughts and daintiest expressions the frondage and efflorescence of a luxuriant and cultivated imagi nation. It has been seriously suggested by a contemporary critic, that the poem, as such, is intended to be regarded as nothing else ' than an allegory of the war, and through that as a satire on the present generation. According to which fantastic hypothesis Maud herself is to be considered as an incarnation of the age, her com panions in the story being symbolical, more er less directly, of the good or evil influences and results of our existing state of civilisation. For ourselves we cannot but laugh to scorn any such preposte rous absurdities in the way of elucidation—believ ing them in our conscience to be entirely alien from the more simple, and earnest, and natural aim of the Poet Laureate ! That aim we conceive to have been throughout the natural, and earnest, and simple narrative of a love story, replete with pas sionate meaning and emotional significance—a love story telling us how Maud was won and lost, and how the hero of the piece, the nameless lover of Maud, a philanthropic misanthrope at first, be comes at last, through varying stages of love and madness, what might be best described, perhaps, by a reversed antithesis of phrase, as a misanthropic philanthropist. The poem is portioned out in six and twenty divisions—written in all imaginable varieties of metre, of tone, of stanza—now pathetic, now sprightly, now graceful, now lugubrious—here sportive quatrains, here sorrowful couplets, there wandering off into all kinds of rhythmi gal conceits, rhyming vagaries,and melodiousfluctuationsof style, of measure, of thought, and even, be it said, of phra seology. For, at intervals the poem is rendered as remarkable by its colloquial homeliness as at other times by its refined elevation of language— language then occasionally as lovely by reason of the exquisite delicacy of its rhetorical artifice as it unquestionably is through the adroitly-introduced, though seeming spontaneous, influence of its dulcet and musical intonation. aud, be it said at once, is th offspring of an arrant old hunx, who before the story begins, appears to have acquired con siderable wealth by the ruin of the father of the youthful misanthrope, once the child-playmate and eventually the lover and beloved of that priceless pearl and paragon of the grim curmudgeon—" a grey old wolf and a lean "—Maud, seen in the daylight with her " cold and clear-cut face " Maud, thought of by night " luminous, gem-like, ghost-like, death-like,"—Maud, the " milk-white fawn "—" fed on the roses and lain in the lilies of life "—Maud, with it her sunny hair And smile as sunny as cold" — Maud, cries her lover " My Delight,"— " Maud, my bliss, Maud, made my Maud by that long lover's kiss"— Maud, "Queen lily and rose in one." Maud, clad— " I n gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Shirung out with a head sunning over with curls, Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls." Maud, in short, the exquisite, the incomparable, the divine, and wondrously beautiful goddess of the young dreamer's distraught ima g ination. Dis traught his imagination is, before Maud comes hack to the hall in the flower of her perfected maiden hood, distraught by the remembrance of— " The shrill-edged shriek of a mother dividing the shud dering night." When the father is brought home dead—either by suicide or murder—from— . . . . The dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above all dabbled with blood-red heath, The red•ribbed ledges dripping with silent horror of blood, And Echo there, whatever is asked her, answering Death !' " Thither the old man, bankrupt iu fortune and hap piness, had wandered out in the autumnal evening— " . . . Where the wind like a broken worldling wailed, And the flying gold of the ruined woodlands drove through the air." Thence his mangled remains are brought home wards to be buried—there, hard by the desolated hearth, where the son is one day, long after, startled from his sorrowful musings, by intelligence that the adjacent hall " the dark old place," to be " by the touch of a millionnaire," is being madeb ready for Maud and the Sultan (later on, so called) her brother. Maud, remembered only as she was a little after infancy— " Maud, with her venturous climbing sand troubles, and childish escapes, Maud the delight of the village, the ringing joy of the ball, Maud, with her sweet purse-mouth when my father dan gled the grapes, appears now to the gaze of her sometime playmate as she is, in all the lovelines s of "sweet seventeen"— " Perfectly beautiful . . • • Faultily faultless, icily regular,,plendidly Dead perfection . • • • • So that he almost longs for a 'flow somewhere— g, For a chance of travel, a paleness, an hour's defect of the rose, Or an underlip, you may call it a little to o ripe, too full, Or the least little acquiline curve in a sensitive nose." After this fashion he speaks of Maud, and a little later we find him thus carping and cavilling over the Sultan, her Brother.-- " • • . . That dandy despot, he, That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull Smelling of mask and of insolence." Adding a little further on in the narrative— " His form I grant in spite of spite, Has a broad blown comeliness red and white, And six feet two as I think he stands. But his essences turn the live air sick, And barbarous opulence jewel thick Suns itself on his breast and hands." Returning to the hall from abroad, Maud and her brother arrive about the dawn of the fair spring season, when in the little grove— " I million emeralds break from. the ruby-budded 19ne." Frozen back at first int o himself by gent of what he imagines to be Maud a frigidity of loveli ness, the young dreamer reverts for relief to his previous solitude and meditation. Li st ' niluj now to the tide in its broadflung, shipwrecking roar, Now to the scream of a maddened beach dragged down by the wave :" But waking up at last to the recognition of "Mad, in 6,11 her glory," when he beholds again her " exquisite face," and hears her voice in the meadow, and sees— " . . the treasured splendour her hand, Come sliding out of her sacred glove, And the sunlight break from her lips," As he recalls to remembrance — "Whom but Maud should I meet Last night, when the sunset burned On the blossomed gable-ends At the head of the village street, Whom but Maud should I meet ?' And she touched my hand with a smile so sweet, She made me divine amends For a courtesy not returned." He is conquered—her slave—her worshipper " Her lion rolled in a silken net"— " Lord of the pulse that is lord of her breast, Ind dreams of her beauty with tender dread, From the delicate Arab arch of her feet o the grace that bright and light as the crest Of a peacock, sits on her shining head, And she knows it not : 0, if she knew it, To know her beauty might half undo it." It is the most siveet and exquisite picture in the volume—suggestive of limnings tinted with the de licate water dyes of Edward Corbould, in illustra tion. The dreaming lover, although despised by the relatives of Maud, is accepted by Maud her self. He saunters with her under the shadow of twilight through her " high Hall-garden," as though he trod the golden gravel and perfumed lawns of Paradise. He sits over against her in the village church—more her votary almost than God's. He has a chance meeting with her a mile from the shore on horseback, where the waving of her hand as nhe flits by him is as a star-spark in the darkness. When he first wins her word of betrothal he never tires of repeating to himself as it were in an under tone of rapture— " There is none like her, none." Sighing to her with an almost childish iteration of tender epithets after their trysting pledge of mu tual fondness— " My bride to be, my evermore delight, My own heart's heart, and ownest own farewell." His passion breaks forth in musical numbers, num bers " most musical, most melancholy," snatches of erotic verse beginning, one of them— " A voice by the cedar tree, &c." Another— Another— " Go not, happy day," &c. " Come into the garden, Maud, &c." And perhaps the most impassioned— " I have led her home, my love, my only friend." Tenderest of all, however, to our thinking, section xii. :- " Birds in the high Hall•garden When Twilight was falling, Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud, They were crying and calling. I kissed her slender hand, She took the kiss sedately ; Maud is not seventeen, But she is tall and stately. Birds in the high Hall-garden Were crying and calling to her, Where is Maud, Maud, Maud, One is come to woo her ? Look, a horse is at the door, And little King Charles is gnarling, Go hack, my lord, across the moor, You are not her darling." This refers, of course, to the partially favoured suitor, the suitor favoured by the Sultan, Maud's brother : - "a lord, a captain, a padded shape, A bought commission, a waxen face, A rabbit mouth that is ever a•gape." It is in this twelfth sectien of the poem from which we have extracted these exultant ejaculations that the poet sings with an unconscious remem brance of rare old Ben Jonson, who had carolled thus exquisitely three centuries back (we have to thank our weekly illustrated contemporary for the reminiscence) : " Here she was wont to go ! and here ! s.nd here Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow ; The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk. But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sown them with her odorous foot." It is, we say, with a possibly unconscious recollec tion of these delicious verses of Ben Jonson, and perhaps also with a no less unthinking remembrance of that almost equally delicious fancy of Walter Scott— " E'en the slight harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread :" that Alfred Tennyson sings thus at page 42, of his peerless Maud— "l know the way she went Home with her maiden posy, For her fret have touched the meadows, And left the daisies rosy :" as in a kindred strain he afterwards sings at page 69 " From the meadow your walks have left so sweet, That wherever a March-wind sighs He sets the jewel print of your ; feet Lb violets blue as your eyes." All this rapturous love is blurred and dashed to the dust, however, by a sudden blow struck at the betrothed of Maud by the hand of her brother, fol lowed by a duel in " the red-ribbed hollow behind the wood," when the Sultan is killed—an event driv ing Maud into an early grave, her betrothed to a hurried self-exile in Brittany, subsequently into a mad-house on his return homewards, and ulti— mately, on his return to reason, into a morbid kind of vague cosmopolitan philanthropy. Behold, in these few incidents, the gist of the plot of Maud— a love story in verse, told through the errant man nerisms, and varying measures, and alternating moods, the peculiarities of which the reader of our remarks may now very readily conjecture through the medium of the foregoing illustrative fragments introduced hero by way of explanatory quotation. lln conception, as in execution, tl - 2 oem is altogether too incoherent to I, r ranked otherwise than very low indeed among ti e laureate's now rather numerous metrical performances. We cannot but regret when we hear av, so strangely melodious by nature jarring into ouch dissonant colloquialisms as those which grate Ton our senses when we listen to a rhyming babble about " perky larches and pines," or about peaks of the wood "caught and cuff'd by the ' or heark ening to affected diminutives " the least little touch of spleen," diminutives kindred in character to that senseless superlative at which we have already directed a passing glance of (it may be cap tious) observation. The philosophic purpose of the poem, for such a purpose, notwithstanding its ge neral incoherence, it appears to us to evidence throughout, may be recognised, we cannot but conjecture, clearly enough, through the thought thus curiously expressed— " As nine months go to shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man : ' followed some time afterwards by that forceful ejaculation, the reason of which, particularly at this all-important juncture in our national desti nies, but few amongst us can fail to consider— " Ah God, for a man with heart,lhead, band, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat—one Who can rule and dare not lie." A chief-of-men for the men of England, such as our ImperiaY ally, the Third Napoleon, is at this mo ment for more than thirty-five millions of French men. Passing on, however, at last from the con sideration of " Maud" exclusively, we may com mend (in spite of occasional freaks of fancy, such as that ludicrously quaint conceit about grass hoppers, in which they are spoken of as— " High-elbow'd grigs that leap in summer grass):" we may commend for an exceeding grace, and sometimes for a bewitching tenderness that Idyl of " The Brook," the refrain of which is merely the repetition of one familiar, years ago, to the lovers of the lyrics of Tennyson— " But not by thee, by steps shall be For ever and for ever." The jewel, the flower, the glory of the little book, howbeit, to our mind is discoverable in the six stanzas comprised between pp. 115 and 118, en titled, simply enough, " The Letters." It is the only portion of the work, we conceive, in any way worthy of the Poet Laureate. And it is such, briefly, as a snatch of song, throbbing with pas sion, full of grace and tenderness and melody. Not thus is it with the five remaining pieces, to us mere scraps of indifferently meritorious versifica tion. A hunchback bedizened with jewels—pearl, and topaz, and amethyst, and beryl, and onyx, and malachite, adorning his "little dorsal irregularity " —might be regarded, indeed, as the not wholly inapt symbol or incarnation of a book as distorted in structure, as stunted in dimensions, as it has been laboriously overladen, here and there, with the rarest and loveliest, but, at the same time, the most bizarre and incongruous of decorations. Joredun : A Tale of the Twelve Hundred ar...; Ten. By W. S. 3 vols. Sampson, Low, and Son. - Another of the Curiosities of Literature ! And, as such, assuredly entitled to at least some passing consideration. Imagine a fiction in throe volumes assuming to itself the glory of having emanated from the hand of Sir Walter Scott, coming from the press at any time, are any shape, under any 70} 2 70 56i i 8.31 3 94i 5 41 51 48i i 107 i 5i I s 1 23f 4 3i FED Pm auspices, no matter how suspicious, and then fancy the possibility of our passing it by with a momentary sneer of incredulity, or a scarcely perceptible shrug of indifference. The notion would be preposter ous. It would be more than preposterous—it would be ungrateful. Besides, let it be confessed at once that our curiosity in regard to anything which might affect to have proceeded from the pen of the author of " Waverley " is altogether too lively in its character to be appeased willingly by a mere glance of unbelieving superciliousness. More particularly when the work in question as sumes to itself the grandiose dignity of a veritable historical romance, a romance of the middle ages, of the alluring days of chivalry, of the times heroically illustrated by the feats of the crusaders and immortalised by the songs of the treuveres. Moredun actually comes before us with this aspect of twofold attractiveness. It " undertakes" to be a posthumous tale of the Great Unknown ! It— " Assumes the God, Affects to nod —" and not only affects, unfortunately, but absolutely does nod (like Homer of old) sometimes--talking throughout in the grand tone, and with the sesqui pedalia verba, sprinkled here and there with in genious Scoticisms, flavoured with colloquial plea santry. Added to all which the story, such as it is, proves on perusal to be verily, and, indeed, a historical romance, a narrative of the thirteen& century, affectedly intimated so to be, by that second, or explanatory, title, which teP.s us that " Moredun" is " A Tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten"—the definite article here italicised being there somewhat indefinitely introduced. A his torical romance—fancy this, ye lovers of the " Talisman" and " Woodstock," of " Ivanhoe" and "Quentin Durward"—an historical romance by W (alter) S (cott), introducing us to John Lack land of England, and William the Lion of Scot land ! The hero, himself—Moredun—being no less gloriously born than a son of Richard Coeur de Lion, not as the bastard offspring of the lion-hearted, like Shakspere's Falcon bridge, but as the fruit of an earlier marriage than that afterwards contracted with Berengeria. It must be admitted by the least credulous reader of " Moredun"—so at any rate it appears to us— that its editor, M. E. De Saint Maurice Cabany, has introduced it to the world with a profound belief ix his own mind that it is, in very truth, an emanation of the genius of Sir alter Scott. Every syllable of the " Introduction," dated Paris, 15th April, 1855, goes to attest the sincerity of this con viction. As the proprietor of " Moredun," M. Ca bany has, of course, an interest in so believing— but as the editor of it, he affords ample testimony that something more worthy of note than mere idle conjectures have conducted him to a conclusion so very remarkable. His account of the manner in which the MS. came originally into his posses sion is sufficiently extraordinary. But, however extraordinary in its details, it possesses in its en tirety a certain coherent consistency. In examin ing into the nature of his statement, it must be remembered that M. De Saint Maurice Cabany is no mere obscure literary adventurer, but a man of considerable acquirements, and of long-esta blihed reputation. This he has demonstrated, during some years past, in his charac ter as "Directeur General de la Societe des Archivistes de.France," as well as in his re sponsible position as " Directeur Redactour r chef du Necrologe, Universel du XIX. Siecle," " Boulevard Beaumarchais, No. 91." Besides which, as M. Cabany tells us in his " Introduc tion" (p. lxi.), his profession is essentially that of a biographer, a circumstance which he declares has rendered habitual and easy to him " the collecting and sifting of evidence—the translation and exa mination of manuscripts." Wherefore, he really seems to have been in a measure qualified, al .though a Frenchman, to enter into the literary controversy upon which a curious combination of circumstances have in the instance before us led him rather daringly to adventure. As to the story he tells us—positively—on his faith and honour as a gentleman, about the rich, elderly, eccentric German merchant, who aLout thirty years ago, having retired from business and taken up his abode in Paris, conceived a strange longing to possess an original work by Sir Walter Scott—well, the thing is, of course, just possible. It is just possible that such a man had such a longing. It is just possible —observe ! just possible that Scott, hearing of this strange monomania of a strange biblio-maniac, should for purposes of his own comply with the en treaties conveyed to him by his bizarre admirer. But, no ! M. Cabany does not appear to us to im ply for one instant that Sir Walter believed in the story about the German merchant. According to the statement of the matter as put forth by the French editor of " Moredun" in his Introduction —it is intimated to us that Sir Walter Scott re garded that story about the German wholly as an ingenious device of his friend, 'William Spencer, then rather down in the world, and residing in Paris at the very time when Scott visited the French capital in his ridiculously hurried search after stray anecdotes and frivolous memorabilia wherewith to enhance the value of his voluminous biography of Napoleon, then on the eve of publica tion. William Spencer, we all know, was an int;- mate friend of Walter Scott's. He was at the pe riod specified in exceedingly embarrassed circum stances. Scutt was g, even anxious, we may believe, to befriend him—and at the same time was eagerly looking out for some means of extricating himself from the tremendous pecu niary liabilities incurred by hire in consequence of the bankruptcy of the Edinburgh publishers, who were not only his publishers, but actu ally his partners, and for the liquidation of the debts of whose house the great novelist was then writing for the bare life, writing himself aetu ally, as it proved, alas ! soon afterwards, into a state of mental imbecility, and through that into his grave. Sir Walter then, we are tel I, while winning by his pen of magic thousands upon thou sands of pounds sterling wherewith to rid him elf of the incubus of debt weighing him down to the very dust' felt within him the old familiar passion of the story-teller, who yearns to escape from mere hack-work to the wonted ground upon which he had in secresy built up his w aidrous reputation. M. Cabany suggests to us that he seized the appli cation made to him by his unfortunate friend, Wil liam Spencer, as the anxiously-looked-for oppor tunity. That Scott gave Spencer the MS. of tlis historical romance of "Moredun" to be —eight out either under the mask of their come,— initials (W. S.), or under the still more inscrutable dis guise of the strictly anonymous. Instead of which we are informed, the reality of the story about the wealthy old German merchant, supposed by Scott, hints the editor of "Moredun," to be purely hy pothetical or supposititious, led to the precious holo g raph being treasured up in an old desk for thirty years, instead of being given to the world forthwith, as a new venture by Scott, for the ac quisition of an entirely fresh reputation. 'Well, all this, we repeat, though to the very last degree improbable, is, at any rate at the same time, as we have before observed, just barely possible ! We all of us remember, for example, how, in our own time, the Great Genius of Fiction, who is the Sir Walter Scott, and in many respects even a great deal more than the Sir Walter Scott of our gene ration, we mean, of course, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton, has more than once made for himself in secresy at first, now in one direction, and now in another, a perfectly fresh and distinct series of additional reputations. It was not as the brilliant author of " Pelham," for example, but as a new writer that he ga se to the world his charming tale of " Godolphin." And to do no more than glance at the covert issue of " The Can tons," and "My Novel," through Blacktvood's Magazine, do we not all of us remember how his sparkling poem, half love story, half satire, " The New Timon," and how after " The New Timou," his magnificent epic, in twelve books, " King Arthur," the day-dream of Dryden and of Milton, which it was left for Bulwer to realise, appeared originally, in the very strictest sense of the word, anonymously. Insomuch so that when the reviewers, and foremost amongst them (at least be it said in point of time) ourselves, declared that Bulwer, and no other than Bulwer, could be the writer either of " The New Timon" or of " King Arthur," the publisher of those works, with a daring we have never been able to reconcile with our notions of absolute moral rec: titude,distinctly announced that he was authorised to contradict that assertion as to their authossibolnP; What we know Sir Bulwer Lytton to hav m e ed l ate more than once, in our ra u P nder the generation, Sir Walter Scott is ° h w er u e as attempting to do in his time —namely, for himself a mask of a new secresy, to fabricateta_ bstract, that fresh reputation. Considered in the imresented j u g, quite con purpose, we say, is, strictly sups the project was ceivable. M. Cabany tellst and breathing according to his ac tGheernistaantemmeenr-t baulked by the simple mer chant was no myth, count of the transactitniut3,to° eccentricity. If we are t pi h nt e g m ade by the editor of " Moredun," William Spencer m i sun derstood Walter Scott, and v i ce Moredun" " ver sa—insomuch so that only now, instead of thirty years ago, sakes its first appear ance the production of W . S. It is as altogether a mistake, by the way, to suppose, as some appear to have done, through an inadvertent inattention to dates, that M. Cabany delayed the issue of ig Moredun " from the press until the death of Scott's son-in-law, the lat e l amented Mr. Lockhart. That, in justice to M. Cabany, ought not to be over looked. It is a circumstance placed entirely beyond the reach of contradiction by the fact mentioned at the tenth page of the " Introduction," to the effect that on the 25th of Noyember 4354 1 446 0011 $ ' notice of the discovery appeared in The Sun news paper in London, and singularly enough (adds M. Cabany) the same day Mr. Lockhart died sud denly at Abbotsford, in Scotland." In this manner we find ourselves unexpectedly called into court as a witness in the case, capable of proving, b . y the e v id ence derivable from a fil e o f our Journal, that at least so far one argument of a suspicious character among those brought for ward against the p ro p r i e tor and editor of " More dun, is altogether and most positively inadmissible. As we have already remarked, M. Cabany himself appears to us to be firmly i m pressed with a belief is the authenticity of the work in question as a verit able production of Sir Walter Scott. The author. ship, of course, remains to this moment entirely a. matter of opinion. It is the opi n i on o f M. Cabany that " Moredun "is a work of Scott's. It is ours —most decidedly—that it is not. We believe it to be, in our conscience we believe it to be, another ingenious contrefacon—nothing mere than a con trefacon. But not, as the majority o f our con temporaries appear to haveinsisted, we cannot but think somewhat unfairly, a forgery to th e l as t de gree contemptible and ridiculous. On the contrary, it appears to us, here and there, to be so ingenious of its kind as to be entitled in some measure to a sort of spurious admiration. " Vortigem " was, if you please, contemptible enough, but ‘‘ More. dun " is at least so far as any such imitation cam be, in one sense of the word, respectable. Could we by possibility suppose it for one instant to be a veritable offspring of the great Scotch novelist's imagination, we must perforce regard it as one of singularly inferior pretensions. If " Moredun " can be said to r e sem bl e i n an y r espect a his torical-romance by Sir Walter Scott, it can only be after the somew h a t i n d e fi n it e manner in which a rough drawing in distemper, touched here and there with indian-ink, can be sup posed to bear any likeness whatever to some gorgeously-coloured .masterpiece from the hand of a Rubens or a T intoretto. Nevertheless, we are well acquainted, through the examples pre sented to view by every literatur e th a t th e l o fti es t genius is occasionally liable to periods of hallucina tion. Have we forgotten that Sir Walter himself wrote "St. Ronan's Well ?" Do we not remember that Lord Byron penned " The Deformed Trans formed 1" Cannot we call to mind how Bulwer once upon a time presented to the world " The Siamese Twins," and Dickens " Bleak House,"and Thackeray book after book like " Rebecca and Rowena," and the abominable " Kickleburys $" Wherefore, the insignificance of the work under notice as compared with the succession of inimit able masterpieces making up the aggregate of the Waverley Novels, could not reasonably be regarded as affording us, of itself, conclusive testimony of the spuriousness of " Moredun." That testimony we conceive to be so manifold as to require in no way to be here deliberately particularised. It • abounds in every page of the production, and of such pages there are not less than 755 altogether. Mystically enough the motto chosen for his narra tive by W. S. has been selected by him from " Lea Plaideurs," running to this effect somewhat in coherently, "Je finis ! Ah ! Avant la naissance du monde ! . . . Passons au deluge !" Quaintly chosen, too, is the sentence from Bayes prefixed to the second volume—" If I am to write familiar things as sonnets to Armida, and the like, I make use of stewed prunes only ; but when I have a grand design in hand, I even take physic and let blood." Wherefore we aro left to presume, of course, that W. S., before sitting down to the com position of this wonderful historico-romantic galli maufry of " Moredun," consented to be phleboto mised to an extent gratifying to the hea rt of a Sangrado. Quoting Cumberland on the t itle-pa ge of volume three, our novelist is heard expla ini ng; apologetically, " Well, Mr. Belcour, it is a rough, sample you have had of my countrymen's spirit ; but I trust you will not think the worse of them for it." A rough sample, beginning with the sudden breaking up of the frost at Scone, and ending with the melodramatic spec tacle presented to view in the moot-hall in the an cient city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Sometimes the incidents recounted aro those of contrabandist adventure—sometimes of knightly tournay—some times of necromantic mysteriousness : occasionally of storm and conflagration —once of shipwreck— and repeatedly of bloodshed, now by open contest, and now again by dastardly assassination. Both the English King John, and the Northern monarch, William the Lion of Scotland, appear upon the• scene rather frequently. Moredun, the son of the. CruFading Richard, is, of course, the hero of the romance—the heroine being the fair Lady of Scone, the Lady Isabella of Huntingdon. Besides the two sovereigns already mentioned, another crowned potentate brinp the attraction of his strange history to the plot in the person of a supposed Smuggler Captain, known throughout only by the name of Maelstrom, but who proves in the closing scene o: the story to be noless august a personage than Isaac, King of Cyprus. Wonderfully conspicuous, however, among the grander forms depicted, are those three Caledonian youths, as like as peas, esquires in po sition though knight-errants in conduct, Malcolm Beg, Tam Macduff, and Adam Peebles. These three callants are to the story of " Moredun " all-essen tial and übiquitous, everywhere and everything. We follow their footsteps, wondering and curious as to what may happen now in the cavernous ruins a Marsden Rucks, now in the garrets of the an- cient hostelry of the Crown and Anchor, now in the green depths of the sylvan Sherwood, and so on, through adventure after adventure. It is the one merit of the tale that it abounds in stirring in cidents, in hair-breadth 'scapes, in breathless catas trophes, in situations of a kind as unexpected as they are extraordinary. But from first to last the whole fiction is a clever make-believe—a specious affectation in style and manner such as can deceive few besides the gifted critic, who has for once al lowed himself to become the dupe of somei nvis ible and ingenious literary ventriloquist. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 27. —Wind this day At noon, dull, cloudy weather. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPR.J SOLITFIAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived.—Richard and Francis, from Rotterd= ; Era, Swansea ; George, Plymouth ; Argyll (s.), Carenivn ; Al liance (s.), Havre ; George, Cherbourg ; Anne and Wil liam John, Newport; Hermion, Sunderland; Bessie. Lyrae ; Sylph (a ), London. Sailed—Enigheden and Neptunus, for Norway ; Holga, Shields; Atalanta (s.), Havre; Sylph (s.), London; Breeze, Swansea. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind, S.S t W. Arrived—Lady Franklin, from St. Stephen's ; Kutch; Richibucto ; Ro',ett and Sarah, Alexandria; Lima, Se ville ; James Annaud, Requijads ; Benedictue, Nadokou.. Off—Peruvian, Rebecca, and Ocean Breeze. Sailed—Labuan, for Singapore; Volga, Pays'. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 24 and 25. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Corinthia, front Callao ; Annie Hall, .Ardroe• san ; Glencapale, Salonica ; Emma, Cadiz ; Cape Brace * Rio de la Bache. Sailed—lncomparable, for Lisbon. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.18 a.m. Wind, S.V. ; tide, one hours' flood ; fine. Arrived, Aug. 26—Albert Edward, from Bremen; Susan, St. Vincent; Geznsters, Danzig; Caroline, quer" soy; Idas, St. Lucia; York Town, New York; Fortitude, Liberia Arrived, Aug. 27—India, from Alexandria. Sailel—Chamois, for Ceylon. DEAL, Mooday, 0.5 5 2.111' Wind S.S.W., moderato. Leone ; Acatns, London , for Plymouth ; Anchored—British Empire. from London, for Sierra for Glasgow; Trois Seenrs, London, for Marseilles ; Ems peror, London, for Sydney. Reyna, London. on a visit to Robert Lord and Lady Monteag 'Peel, third son of the late Sir Robert Captain William com poll in e eea d air. t eL o ha ret r u i r e n k. to his native, O'Brien Esq , at his villa, Leander, in the Black Sea, has arrived in from, Peel, late in the commad of the D . iam . .on London f the September. d that on Notice has beeissue b Friday next, the Met inst., the British Museum would The M e closed for the aa. nual autumnal vacation . Museum will be re-opened cMoualntta;;:farvoimngilbl ebeena.ith• , team . s hip Atlantic, Capt. Briggs, Tut; AMERICAN MAILS.—The •la 't to the public on Monday, the 10th of sailed from the Mer usual mails for the United S tates , for Nw v y at 9 a.m., on Saturda y , ni ed Staten Mail MuRATIST PROCLAMATION IN SICILT Y . re and a full pa,senge , C a lifornia, ork jo wi i t , h 2 t 2 b . is cargo of merchandise on board. pr, , clamation iii Murat Sicily. is, s I , t "Theisadded —A Mnratist said to be extensively circulating In that on e phrase used in it by Prince will not impose hour is come for the people to rise. I myself upon them, but I declare myself ready to answer their call." ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. The continned success of Mazeppa is beyond belief. This magnificent spectacle, the ne plus ultra of the equestrian drama, is drawing crowded houses nightly, while the equestrian displays in the circle, produced by Mr. William Cooke, , are the theme of general admiration. To render the entertainment unusually attractive Mr. Nelsoa Lee's laughable farce of a Raffle for en Elephant has bee: added to the amusement, in which the wonderful per. formance of Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Elephant* will take place. The theatre is crowded nightly. THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—On Friday last the Conatess de Neuilly and the Dnke and Duchess de Nemours and family, left Beaumaris for Claremont. The Dake and Duchess d'Aumale, the Princess Salerne, and suite, left at the same time for Orleans-house, Twickenham. Among the fashionable departures rom Carnarvon during the week we may notice that of the Dowager Countess of Caruarvon. The annual six weeks' vacation at the National Gal lery, Trafalgar-square, and the Vernon Collection of Paintings, Marlborough-house, Pall Mall, is ApPouite la to commence Sept. 13. They will be re-opened to the ' public on the 29th of October, 108} ; ..