The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

~- M Zi•; d COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AN:) Y, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed with more tone and confidence, and prices of every sort of cotton unchanged from Friday's quotations. The sales were 8,000 bales (500 for export and 1,000 on speculation), including 130 Pernam and Maranham, 6d. to 61d. ; 120 Bahia, sid. to 6d. ; 400 Egyptian, 54d. to Bd., and 1,000 Surat, 3id. to Cid. per lb. 10,000 bales have been imported since Thursday. In the Railway Share Market the demand for sharesis exceedingly quiet, and prices were a shade lower than Friday. Rumours were afloat on the Paris Bourse on Saturday that the Bank of France were going to sell their Rentes, the truth of which was not enter tained, although some speculators had circulated that the sale had already commenced. The 3 per Cent. Ren tea fell to 64fr., ,and remained so at the close of the day. Though there has been no agita tion in the market, the public funds have gradually declined towards the close of the week. The intelligence from Melbourne by the Balla rat, which brings 120 oz. of gold, mentions that there was a good demand for that article, at 31. 16s. 6d. per oz. Sbe brings dates nearly . ' a month later Clan previous advices. Commercial affairs generally were still suffering from the recent crisis, and business continued extremely dull. Other causes likewise tended to maintain this depression .amongst the Melbourne merchants. The winter months are al ways inactive, the bad state of the roads preventing theconveyan ce of supplies to the interior, and on the gold fields the traders had over-pecu lated ; they bad large stocks on hand, and hence few orders arrived in town. Also the fact of the banks purchasing gold themselves on the gold fields, i instead of throu g h th e b ro k ers , h a d ren dered t unnecessary for the diggers to come to town, where they invari a bl y gave au i mpetus to tra d e b y their lavish expenditure. It was calculated that 3 or 4 months must elapse before any decided improve ment could be expected. However, as the spring advances!' they look forward to better prospects, for then the settlers will be requiring their annual supplies for their stations. Provisions were rather dull, but flour was in demand at 441. per ton. In general merchandise the market was glutted with boots and shoes. Hardware, however, for building purposes was in demand, spirits were not much in request, brandies had fallen slightly, and compara tively little rum was consumed, sugars were steady at good quotations, wine had improved, and to bacco was dull. The Sydney accounts state that breadstuffs con tinued to arrive freely, and the Mercedes had arrived from. San Francisco with 8,820 bags of flour, 2,890 bags of wheat, 836 bags of oats, and 3,900 bags of barley. The advices from Van Diemen's Land mention that considerable excitement had been occasioned by the proposed alterations in the tariff, and that, in consequence, large quantities of the articles which would be affected by them were being daily taken out of bond. Wheat, flour, and all kinds of grain bad declined in Hobart Town, owing to the lower range of prices that prevailed in the other o Aonies. The accounts from New York state that the market for public securities were buoyant, and there was no difficulty in obtaining discount accommodation. The last Banks' return showed a large decrease in the loans and discounts again, namely, 453,601 dollars, and there was a slight augmentation in the specie. During the week ending Friday the 12th, there was an excess of imports over exports to the amount of 2 ,839,602 dols. There had been a very large busi ness transacted in breadstuffs, but at the latest date the market had assumed rather a quieter ap pearance. Flour was iu demand for shipment to France, and vessels were wanted for consignment to that country. Large orders were reported to have been given out for both wheat and flour, on account of the French Government. Consider able purchases were made by the Greek houses, and for Germany large quantities bad been taken. It was mentioned that the planters had grown more this year than last, and that cotton, to a smaller extent, had been cultivated. The crop of the latter, it was supposed by some, would reach 3,500,004 bales, but others estimated it at about 8,000,000 bales. There is an appearance of flatness in Eng lish Stocks, occasioned by further rumours re specting the possibility of differences between Eng land and America, and these have tended to coun teract the good effect which would have been pro duced by the arrival of gold from Australia. Con sols opened at 88i to 88g, and are now about 88i to 88i. The Unfunded Debt is rather weak, being at 3s. discount to ls. premium. India Stock is 226. The New 3 per Cents. are 881 to 884, and the Reduced 874 to 871. The Foreign Markin rules quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 791 1, and the New Scrip is 24 discount, being firm. Venezuela Bonds are 26. Sardinian 5 per Cents. 844, and Russian 5 per Cents. 954. Mexican Stock is 19k, being flat. Peruvian Active Bonds have risen to 73. Brazilian Small Bonds are 99 to 994. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 191 to ; Peruvian, 71 to 3 ; ditto Three per Cents., 51 to 3; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to •'5 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 8 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 8 ; Spanish New Deferred, 191 to ; ditto Three per Cents., 37i to 8 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to ; ditto Pas sive, 41 to 5. _ _ _ in Railway Shares there is not much alteration, and the business doing is extremely limited. As the settlement of the account takes place on the 31st instant, preparations are being made iu con nection therewith. Still, however, in some cases, higher prices are obtained than on Saturday. Great Western are active. Foreign lines are dull. The Mining and Banking Shares rule firm. Union of Australia are 1/. higher. Canada Land are without any particular alteration. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLt,t . From the oXcial List. Business don. 3 rer Cent. Reduced Annuities. 3 per Cent. Consuls Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO . . Consols for Account 8.4 i i Erchequor Bills, 2Ad. £l000 £5OO 2 d PRICE 1l OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO4 Ir, Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. . Ditto Small Ditto New, 1843 Hzxican 3 per Cent Peruvian Bonds, 4} per Cent 73 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent, £ St ssi S4rdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... ..... Turkish Bonds, 6 par teat Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 4i per Cent. . . thvicends on the above pa} able In ',ono , n. Ditch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gni! 4 BA LP-PAST T TV U. Consols Ditto for the Nct• omit BBl a LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 29.—Wind this day t.t noon, N.E. ; light airs, and dull hazy weather. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—Den mark, from Shediac for Grimsby, towed in with damage to stem, and loss of rudder, &c.; H.M.Str. Rhadanian thus, Malta; Niagara (s. tpt.), Scutari ; H.M.S. White Sea, and sailed for Plymouth- Memedin, London. for New Zealand. Sailed—Mary Ann, for Calcutta ; Ca tharina Hermann, Havana. RAM , GIiCE, Oct. 27. The Marie Emilie, from Sunder , land for Nantes, is aground in the Sluicoway, fills with the tide, and is . supposed to hav e b ro k en her buck. The J osep hine Ana's, from London, for Brest, has put in leaky, and is discharging. (FEB ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning Arrived.—Wonder (s.) and Atalanta (e.), Havre ; (10n. rier (e.) and Transit (a.) , Jersey ; Navarino, Londo n: Ala bama, Alexandria; Mary Ann, Memel ; Thomas and Mar garet, Flora, Brothers, and Prince, Sunderland. Sailed—Wild Dayrell, for Hong Kong ; Alarm, Lime rick Lass, Arbutus, and Clyde, Newport ; Baillie Charles, Greenock; Propontis (s.), London ; Petit Charles, Bor deaux ; City of Limerick (a ), London. LITERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind S.S.W. Arrived.—. North American, from Mobile; 'Weat Point, New York. Off.—Parker, from Demerara. Sailed—C a th er i ne , f or H avre ; P er ignon, Gores ; Com merce, Ja cme l • P Frederick Frang, Maracaibo ; Taunton Packet, R ouen ; Perthshire, Savannah; Uncle Joe, Balti more ; Varna, Constantinople ; Nerio, Fayal. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 27. Wind N. Arrived. Liddeedale, from Callao ; Maria, Rio Grande. FUN'ERAL OF THE LATE SIR W. MOLESWORTH.—The remains of the lamented Sir W. Mo7esworth were on Sa turday morning interred in Kensall Green, in a grave near that of the late Duke of Su4sex. Six mourning coaches followed the hearse, in which were Sir IL Moles. wortb, Mr. P. Molessvorth, Lord Torrington, Mr. C. Villiers, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Delane, Sir E. Elton, Mr. Pauncefote, and other gentlemen. A deputation from Southwark attended to the grave the remains of their late distinguished representative, and the carriages of Lon! Palznerston ' Loid Panuiure, the Duke of Somerset, Lo r d J. Russell,, Sir C. Wood, and other political and private friends of the deceased, closed the mournful procession. ~~ SHARE MARKETS. gals DAY.) RAILWAY% I , ,&FL CAIN. 31!!. Sabartifsy. 23 , 4 31 - 4 404 ...' - 7i 16 - 15 14 - 15 9 - 8 85 -• 87 58} - 59 ilia— 12 6i - 4i - 6 ... -- ... - 6i -- 61 r;7 63 49 - 51 91 9i 16 - 17 71 - 73 6} - 7 82; • f• 3i 67 - 69 19 1 99 101 5O 6L 65 - TO 1 5 • 6 5 6 ri 74. 75 SOO ..". - 6i 94 - 96 91i 92 21 — lidl 82 88 .9i 8i 8 7 21. -• 22 id —433 i 35 37 •N ••• .» •1i 7 it ii - ii 25i ... 26,1 ••• '"' 67i 68i 8# 7ict 4 - 114 - 124 444 454 92 97 - 71 51 - 51 23 - 25 1 00 105 72 74 41 43 1 '2 56l —57 i 30i 314 5 a 2d - par I ••• '''' • • • '.... ••• ''' 13 19 3 - 4 18 • 20 4 - 6 A.subg. No ttng. Roe. %nd btstn. Junct... 80l fast k Ballymena. WoIvor)) h Stour Valley Birk euhd. LancsL & Cheshire Junet t)o. Chesh. Birk., £5O and 225 Cons Do., £20.......... .. tlyth &Tyne origins' £25 (isad. at £4..5t Bristol and Exeter ' aledonian Cann. and Cai digan Chester (31 Holyheact. Cork and Bandon . Cork, Black, &Pas , . Do. A Do. B Chaff J unction.... DuolitirßelfastJune Dun. P. Jne Do. Now ...... Fast ALglian Eastern Counties vast. 'Tnion, & FBI Da., B. Stovt.... Do., New L.... •East Kent t•,nsi. Lancashire .. Edinburgh & Glasgo Edinb. and eebles Edin. Prth di Duna vorth & Clyde Jin Furness. Do. Extension Glasgow & S wost Great N. of Scotlnd. ( treat Northern ... Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre Great Western Do. Stour Val RA! Gna. Stk.. frig) South-Euler Lancaster & Carlin! e IDo., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash.andYorks l Da., Wst. Riding Tin. Liv.Criny.&Soutbpi London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst Lend. and N. Westi• Dv. Pit ths !D0.101.15h.,./if&B 0 ibo. Eighths London and S. West!, Do., £5O Do. £4oLndinlrry& Col erain , Lndndrrr. & Ennisk. Manch.Sher.k Linclr Do. I Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. liJn Metropolitan Midland 1 )0. Rirmng. &Derk Midld . G. West. (Ire , Do. Half Shares . Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillet Newry Warrenpoirrt and Rostrevor. Norfolk Northn.Connties North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred .. Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwicl Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. 'Pura Lends Do. York North London N .&S.Wstrn.,Hami - stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. Junc Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. )z Wore., & Wolv. , oitaslouth o.6ish Central._ Scottish Midland ihropshire Union .., south Devon ;oath Eastern south Wales Yritsli. di Riv. Dm 'ttaines,Wok. &Wo tockten & Darn 4tLAton & Ht.rtlepi ^aft' Vale r)o. Pref., No. 1 {'hames Hay. P.& R Inverstone & Lanes Vale o; Neath %Vatted. & Kilkenny VaterforadtLimer , e} West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A . . Do. B West London..., Wimbledn&Croydol. FOREIGN. kntwerpaltoit dam Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes *-telgian Esstn. June Reziors to OraissPssa, lombay, Baroda,an Cent;;llndia,Scri , Do. Demerara 1 )titch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New ,East Indian, g. 5 /3 e Do. Eytension Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is. Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Doben. con. into Stk. till'6; Do. Comp. 6p. c., do _ _ Gt. Central of Fran,. Gt. Indian Peninsulr guar. 5 per cent... Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions.... Great Luxembourg Constituted Share. Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares ... Do. Wen Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option iiamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Bash, Lime and Turnhout Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Moditerran. Nia.dras Do. New Maria Antonia IDo. do. New Namur & Liege (Ritl, interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. Do .201. She Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B. tit Am e. She. NorwegianTrankPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans...., Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen & Cherbrg. D 0... ;Rome and Frascati,.; I:ouen and Havre Royal Danish R oval Svmlish Do. Obligations Sambre and Henn_ Do. 5i p. cont. Pref. Scind;: D 0... Ilioutheru of Franoo..! Andrew's and s Qneboe West Flandors Do 64 per c. Prof_ Western of France_ Do . • 'Zealand JOINT-S' Anatr:+l ,~Kj y Bank of London ..... • , ri. Col. lik.& 4 1ritish N. Amoricar ( liartd, Bank of Asi, Chrtd. Rck. of India, Australia, & China City.............. ....... Colonial . .............. Conunorcial of Load Eng. Scot. & Ate. Cht. Lend. Chart. Bk. of Australia ............ Ditto Now,,, ........ 1.4. , id0n and County Liad.&E.Bukg. Corp. London Joint Stock. Loud. & WeEtminstez National Pro.of Eng. Do. New. National of Ireland.. New South Wale's.... Oriental Bank of Corporltin. ....... Provincial of Ireland Do. Now ............... Royal Australn.Bky. & +3Oll Co Royal Union of AnatraliN. Do. New Ulll9ll of LonclQu 7A - 7i 2} - 2ld 4 ..- 2 d I - i id 35/ 36} 9A —10 A) 212 22} 9i 8 . 14} —15 i 70 72 88 90 3 3 i 5 51 par - ip ... "'"' •. • P 4 - 4} - 3 221 - 231 16 - lip 99 - 101 112 - 116 113 - 116 103 105 - 23 110 - 115 5 6p 19,E -19 i 7 9 2 - 3 - 4i - 5 34 -34 i 12}i 1 - 44j -44 H i 3 - 45 ..., - pm 20 - 21 2 - 21 - 8 - 8i ... - i -1 p • ... •.. - pm 3i 4 i 30 - 31 19 - 20 BANKS. 85 - 87 51 - 53 . ... i d par ... - ...d • •. ''.... ••• 15 IG~ lid— 19 d 1 d ... ... Par 21) A = i 6 40 - 42 52 - 54 ••• .... ••• ..• 41 . 69 - 7 1 74 8 i 28 .x 30 3r.sinsst doze , this day. all RP 100 Foo all an all all tOf f 1 501 75 1 911 2i 2 14k 4i k 1k 82 64 34 68 4 12 45 i 7i i i 22/ i x d THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29,__1855. LINAS . 1 1.6 ED ),6: 4 LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) MARKET NEWS.--(This Day). likiLwaors, te , 34ii; (..%)Inp,4u, Satnr isy ettMties4 this r ay ---•00-- BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE C. VINES. COIN EXCHANGE. Bed ford and 131 ct ell ley .... Buckgharash. Clyd.esdale Jo. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. pc. E. En. H. Sh. Was. Barr. & Neils. Direct !Do. New Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenvt Do. Preference Lon.,Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bath. and Matlock Middlosbro' & Redcar. Lond,,z%. N. W !It. Lk W. E. Un. E. C...., Most of the coutitrymorkeis hold on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, and the iemand ruled iractive. Inferior qualities were lower to purchase. There was only little doing iu barley, on former terms. Oats, beans, peas, and flour supported previous'rates. Thelatestaccountsfrom Now York state that considerable excitement prevailed iu the trade, owing to the large pur chases for shipment to England and France. The conti nental markets are devoid of animation. 93 - 95 95 --- 100 This was an adjourned certificate meeting. The bank rupt was described as of Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, wholesale ironmonger. E. Nrti; E. Count aldonian. 131 7135 id _.The balance-sheet commenced June, 1854, and ended June, 1855. and sbowed debtor to creditor, 742/. 14s 10d.; liabilities, 1,117/. 10s. 4d. ; capital, 551. le. 6d. ; profits, 9141. 16s. Bd.; creditor by good and - doubtful debts, 972/. 14s. 3d.; property, 2/. 3d.; trade-4apenses, 135/. 17s. 6d. ; losses, 159 i. ss. 3d. ; house and personal ex penses, 3841. The bankrupt obtained a certificate. r Y o s o Gt. Weso Yk. Now. & Berw. .SiNM Do. Do . Haste. Up to our market last week the arrivals of produce were vary limited. From abroad we received 5,744 quarters of wheat, 1,358 oats, 12 beans, 127 tares, 51 linseed, 78 rape. seed, 897 sundry seeds, and 4,997 barrels of flour. Coastwise and by land carriage a moderate supply of English wheat, in fair average condition, was received first up to our market this morning, Although the stands were by no means extensively supplied with samples of either red or white, the demand for all kinds; owing to the limited attendance of large millers, was in a very sluggish state. Selected samples were mostly taken at is per quarter beneath the prices of Monday last ; and the value of low qualities gave way 2s per quarter. The supply of foreign wheat was small, but there was some good American qualities on show. The business doing was wholly in retail, yet we have no change to notice in prices. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) IPeto :t Co. MANSION HOUSE. plorf‘A Do t.& N. NV & }fidhL Stckt on & Darlingt. nd ASSAULTING T!! POLICE.—John Hart, Elizabeth. Hart, and John APCarthey, were Charged with assault ing the police in the execution of their duty. Police constable 612 deposed that on Saturday night al out a quarter to 12 o'clock he was on duty in Petti coat-lane when his attention was directed to Hutchin son-street, where he found a large number of people as sembled round John Hart, who was fighting. On his seeing the policeman he threatened to " knock his b— brains out if he touched him." Some of the prisoner's friends endeavoured to get him away, but he was obstinate, and struck witness, when Police-constable 649 came up, and he was taken into custody. , Midld.Bradfit Newmarket Bury Exten N.& Est.s p. , Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p • Preat. N Vof y Do. titer.. A Roystu.AL Hit. Shef. Roth an.: G0010g.5 p. c. Shrews. &Her S. Staffordsh Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do 'orn rat Cloun. 'B. Count 'Do There was less inquiry for floating cargoes. The quota tions, however, were firmly supported. The few samples of fine barley in the market found buyers at full quotations. Damp and inferior qualities were is per quarter lower than on this day se'nnight. We had a moderate inquiry for malt, at full currencies. Old oats were soarce, and hold at fully late rates ; but new qualities ruled dull, at 6d per quarter less money. There was a fair demand for beans, on former terms. Peas moved off steadily,, at full quotations. The flour trade was far from active, yet last Monday's prices wore well supported. IL.&N.W. at North:. Lancasb & Yorkab. T. &assay M. MClean r . 3tock & Darlingt Police-constable 649 said that when about to take Hart into custody the female prisoner caught him by the hair of his head, and pulled his head back, and he was kicked several times by M'Carthey. Police -constable 672 said he assisted to take Hart into custody. In Houndsditch he became so violent as to require additional ass:stance, and at the station they were obliged to put the handcuffs on him. He threat ened he would do for witness. Ann Barrett, a married woman, stated that she went to the Palace Tavern, Petticoat-lane, on Saturday night, to look for her husband, when John Hart knocked her down and kicked her, and the female prisoner pulled a handful of hair from her head, which she produced in court. Her husband was also much injured by the vio lence of the prisoners, and was unable to attend in con sequence. That was the commencement of the row. She could only account for the two prisoners' conduct towards her and her husband from jealousy on the part of the female prisoner, with whom he formerly kept company. 114tWeetn. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier .... 783 to 79s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsk., Feed 26s 30s Potato. 2Bs 31s Yonghal and Cork Black. .• •• 253 28s Cork, White ... •• 26s 30s Scotch, Feed. •• •• 273 30s Beans—Tlet ......... 41s 45, Pigeons .... 43s 478 Peas—Grey .......... 423 458 Map1e........... 42s 468 White........... 44s 498 Boilers ......... 48s 569 Flonr—Tow.t-made..• 733 75s Suffolk .......... 58s 608 stoektn &Norfolk 57s 608 Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red •• new 618 to 648 Ditto.. •• .... old 715 81a Otto, WIT.° rew 63s 83s Ditt0........ old 79s 8 . 95 Norfolk and Lin- - coln, lied, old 71s 79_ Ditto new .• •• •• 63i 77s •fiye—Old —s —s Sew .. .• .. 48s 5231 Barley—Grinding .• •.. 34s 376 Malting . •• 356 L7B Chevalier.... . . 38s 41s Milt—Suffolk and N0r f01k........ •• 71s 76s Brown ............• •• Os 64i Kingstonand Ware 76s 78s METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were on the decrease, the total supply amounting to 1,901 head. In the corresponding week in ISSI we received 7,182 ; in 1853, 8,577; in 1852, 9,147; in 1851, 8,666; in 1850, 3.972 ; and in 1849, 6,795 head. Joseph Bevis said he was in the above public-house about half-past 11 o'clock, when he saw the last witness and her husband. The prisoners came in afterwards. Ile said Ann Barratt and her husband began the row. Police-constable 612 said that Barratt complained to her previous to the row of being ill-used. Sir Win. Carden asked the officer of this court to examine the hair produced with the hair on the woman's head, which he did, and pronounced it to be more like goat's hair than human hair. Sir Win. Carden said whatever it was the woman's hands bore evidence of usage, and, after censuring their conduct and lecturing them on the evils of drunkenness, sentenced the pri soners to.lo days' imprisonment each with hard labour. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WERK. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 27 ... 51 Sheep. 136 ... ... PREFE Aberdeen .00. No. 2, 7 p. c. , BlythandTynrs 1 Opel o. pref. (issd. t 501 & Ex. 4 p. c. Si. Do. 4 p. c. Shares i;tiedonian £lO 'heater & Holyhea Guar. 5i per cent ►o. do. Pref. No. 2 1)o. do. Pref. No. II Cork dtßandonsp.c nun.Prth . & Aber. S Z. Anglian Cls. .A Sh Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c Ti'astern Counties Ex tension,s P.C. No. Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. Mast Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent . Do. 10/. Debentr.Sl). Do. do. 4 per cent cast Lancash. 6 p. ets F.. &W. York. J. stha Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness &S.W.G.& p.c. Great Northn. b p. no. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom no. p. c Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red. tt 5 p. c. Gt. W. of ScOt. 1 at Pre at. S. ds W. (Ireland Do. 4por c. Pr2f. qt. Westn. (Berke A Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. con. red. 4 p.c. D'). con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4 p.c. Do. Birm. Prof. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. C.P. S. De. do. 5 p. c. d 0... Do. Birm. Grua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. do Um. &York. F. I:2' Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon.&lßrigh. G. 5 p.c. Do. Fref., 5 p. c. St. no. New Guar.6 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent Lon.&N. W. Coy. 6 Nuneat on p. ct Lon. & S. W. 7 per et. Lowly. &Color. Sh. tiondy. & Ennis.. SI . I Wan., She., k in. New. £lO Do. £6 1 Aarypt.Ez Carl. 4 p e 4i per cent (id. Consol.6 p.c.gi Do. Consol. Bristol Rirm. 6 per cent. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. 3. 1)o. Pref. 4 per ce , Do. N. Pref. 4 p. c Ditto L. tr, H. Pref. SI Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Sto Do. 5 p.c. Bat Do. 54 per et.pref. Do. Way. Val. 5 p e North British N. E. Rerw, 4 p.c. P L W o. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c :No,l Do. do. Quarters 4' Do. York H.& C. Mir North Staffordshire. Oxford, Worcester, ‘ olverh. Xl5, 6 p e Do R. Prof. 101. Sh , :ot. Cent. , New Pre South Devon Do. fixed, 4 per cen S. Eastern (Readirii :inn.) of £1 Os. Rd. Do. 4} per cent...... Do. Fixed 4i p c sh. S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. I Do do. 41. p. c.... ' 2 S.Yorksb.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c. , Do. do. do Stock. & Rarti. g. t p. c. till July 1, '5 Tll'aterfcl. Ec Kilk. 6 p ••• ..... . ie 103 IQS = 124 13 ra ' 112:4 --.1172 21 -- 24 Ad 1p 58 130 - 134 8 - 84 a 24 ' 30 - 31 82 - 86 RENCE SHiRES. 110 115 106 110 Cl 93 94 - 96 15 - 16 51 - Si I - r - 6 ! 12 -12 i • •• ••• 57 - 59 . • 114 Ice 108 99 101 par p 9i 10 6 61 92 94 80 85 t 4 F 6 91 10 16 1641 91 -- 10 68 70 174 184 81 91 13 14 11 ld 30 135 ••• a.. ••• • • - - -PI 124 - 13 i - i 1: 4 0 - 132 94 - 96 ; - 1 4 - 97 -99 $9 - 91 3 - 31 .. ~ ~a 100 - 102 131 -14 i id • psi 214 - 221 93 - 95 9/ 9i IC : tic 14 - 2j '2l = ii., MARYLEBONE. CHARGE OF ANNOYING A TRADESMAN.—This day Henrietta Wyld, a young woman of small stature, was charged before Mr. Lang with annoying Mr. Philip Silcock, a tobacconist, carrying on an extensive business in the EdgcwarE-road. Mr. Herring, who was engaged for the complainant, said that his client was compelled to bring the present charge before his Worship in order to prevent the re peated annoyances of the prisoner. For some months past she came to his house, by her conduct and language collected a crowd before his shop, which was a great obstruction to his business. All this arose out of a false charge which had been made against the complainant by the prisoner, who alleged that he was the father of the child to which she gave birth about seven years ago. He, complainant, foolishly allowed her money to keep away, but she would not do so. The complainant deposed to various times as alleged by his solicitor when she came to his house. On the 7th of September last he was compelled to take out a sum mons against the prisoner, since which time she has not been heard of till Saturday, when she came to his house. She then assaulted him, and said that she would think no more of shooting him than she would a dog. Policeman 190, D Division, stated that he was called to take the prisoner into custody. She observed that if a policeman was given twopenny worth of gin and half an ounce of tobacco he would do anything. She was very violent, and resisted him. He was obliged to take her in his arms and carry her. The prisoner was fined 20g., or in default 14 days, for the assau t on the complainant, and 10s., or 7 days, for assaulting the police constable. The prisoner asked what s he was to do with her child, which was starving ? For the last seven years she had been allowed money by the complainant. Mr. Long said that he had nothing to do with that matter. ASSAULTING THE PORTER OF MARYLEBONE WORK HOUSE.--Thomas Riley, a ragged urchin about 17 years •f age, - was charged with the following assault upon Green, porter at the Northumberland gate of the Mary leboue Workhouse. The complainant said that about half-past 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, be was at the door of the work house when he observed the prisoner on the road. He saw complainant, upon which he flung a stone at him, which nearly knocked off his hat. The prisoner seeing that it had not taken effect upon his person, threw an other stone, which came within a short distance of his eye. Mr. Tubbs, overseer of the parish, stated that the pri soner only on Friday last cam e out of prison, where he had been six months, for stealing clothes, the property of the guardians. On that day he applied for relief, which he had, and was again supplied with clot h i n g , with a ti c k e t t o go t o th e stone-yard. He, however, left, and upon getting into the street took off his work. house suit. which he left in the street. H e was taken on the charge of robbing the clothes to the station house, but the inspector refused to take the soharge when he came in the evening. He way fined 405., or, in default, a month's imprison ment. REPRESENTATION OF WELLS.—Mr. Serjeant Kinglake has ! soome a candidate for the seat vacant by the death of Mr. Tudway, and on Saturday issued the following address to the erectors :—"The melancholy death of y( ur late member having caused a vacancy in the repre sentation of your city I venture again to offer myself candidate to supply it. I cannot address you without expressing my deep sympathy in the distress which this sad event must have awakened among you. The prin ciples which would influence and control my conduct as your representative in Parliament are not unknown to you. lam from conviction a supporter of that liberal policy which has of late years been successfully directed to the advantage and general welfare of all classes, and thereby secured that confidence which ought to exist between those in authority and the people at large. I feel that at this important crisis there is one subject on which there ought to be an explicit understanding be tween a candidate and those whose suffrages he &elicits. I allude to the present war. That war is a just and righteous one. It is a mighty straggle between the principle of aggressive despotism and the principle of free, humane, and enlightened civilisation. I trust as it has commenced in justice so it will be carried on with vigour and untiring energy, and that no temporising policy will be allowed to interrupt its progress until a result be obtained which shall insure a durable, satisfac tory, and honourable peace, and justify the vast sacrifices which have been made in this great cause by the Allied nations of Europe." FALLING IN OF A RAILWAY TONNEL.—Nearly the whole of the traffic on the mails line of the Great Northern Railway between Peterborough and Grantham was suspended from Thursday evening to last (Sunday) night in consequence of the falling in of a considerable portion of Stoke tunnel a few miles south of Grantham. It appears that one of the plate -layers, whose duty it is to pass through the tunnel every night and morning in order to examine its condition, observed on Thursday night that some bricks and earth had fallen in. Notice of the oceurrence was promptly sent by telegraph to the officials at Peterborough, but, although the message was received there at six o'clock, the mixed express, which leaves London at 5 p.m., was allowed to proceed on the main line from Peterborough towards the north. When, however, it arrived at Stoke tunnel it was found that other portions hal fallen in, so that the train could net be permitted to pass through, and it had therefore to return to Peterborough, to be forwarded thence by the Loop or Lincolnshire branch of the Great Northern lino, which falls into the main line at Retford. A staff of workmen were sent into the tunnel as soon as possible, and, as only the down line was blocked, the goods' traffic both ways was carried through the tunnel during the night on the up-line of rails, the trains moving at a slow rate through the defect ive p art s of the bore. During Friday, Saturday, and yesterday all the traffic between Grantham and Peterborough was carried round by the detour of the "Loop," which is about 200 m il es longer than the main route, and of course all the trains were proportionately delayed, the fast expresses being retarded about half an hour. The traffic between Peterborough and the damaged tunnel has been carried on by a special service. The Great Northern Com pany are fortunate in having the Lincolnshire branch to fall back upon in emergencies like the present, as but for that extra line their goods traffic, at least, must have been conveyed by another company in this in s'ance. The line has been blocked once before by a landslip, which occurred at the cutting near Stoke tunnel, and once by a heavy snowdrift in the same place. 9 2 1 1 10 - St. St. iii 10 St. 20 MINES. 1 all Ana Fria ............. 1 all Anglo Austrin. Golc 10s. all Anglo Californian ... 20 6 tustralian 1 all Australian Cordillera - 1 all Ave Maria. " 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of 50 all glsenarvon Iron and Coal . 20 14 British Iron 4l 54 35 26 3razilianlmp.(issue, at i!5 pm.) - 21 24 30 all Do. Cocaes k Cuiab 2i - 3i 20 15 Do. St. John Dellte 27 —29 1 Clarendon Cone. Min Co. of Jamaica id AP 40 all Cobre Copp er 65 61 5 1 Colonial Gold St. all Copper Min. of Enr ...id x a 25 all Do. Prof. 74 p. can , ...xd y d ... le Copiapo 2 1 Vortuna par —lp 20 all general l3 —l5 1 all It.NuggetVeinßeg 1 41 all great. Poluonth .... 2 24 all t Wheal Ver United 1 di s p ar 1 all Liberty A A 3 all Linares. 7 74 5 11 Lusitanian 4 1 1 1 all ‘fariquita 1 - 1 all N'ew Granada ..... 1 I all Nouveau Monde 20 all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 16 5 1 Port Philip — 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 30 127 iantiago de Cuba 3 4 1 all ;oath Australian — 1 all Du. 1 4 Do. 10 per cent „, —. 10 Lin Croft ...... - 34 281 all United Mexican . 4 - 41 51 1 all •Valler 1 all West Mariposa....,. 1 12s. Worthing Mining o' Australia 1 all Yuba . MISI.IELLA.N MOUS. 25 174, Australian A gricsdt 26 27 It' 11 tus'lraln. Royal Mai - lu 81 Berlin Water Workt 71 81 xd xel 50 40 grit. American Lan l 0;) 32 Canada llO 145 135 8 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. ct Jan. a.na July le64 - 107 1081 8 5 all Crystal Palace t 2 21 2 5 5 Do. Preference.• 4 all Crystal Pal. of Franc 1 1 Ruston Iron Ore.._ ..• 20 11 Eastern Steam — 5 all En. & Aus Cop Sui Co 1 14 25 24 Electric Telegraph... 17 18 all Electric Teleg. of Tr. 5 all Gen. Iron Se Collier 15 14 Ceti. Steals Navigat. 18 all General Screw Steen 144 10 Irish Beetroot Sug 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Mediteran. Eiec. Tel g 10 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 51 64 s. I all Nat. Pat. Steam rue' 10 5 Netherlands Land.... 11 11 10 all Cc. Do. 5 1 Do. 8p s P iss at 1 d His— par 2 1 N. S. W. Coal is Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. „. 160 80 New B. &N. S. Land 1 all N. B. Australasian._ 20 15 Nrth. of EuropeStaaL. — 1 all Oriental Gas 1 2s. Do. " New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. k Mina 24 5C al. Peninsular& Orienta 51) 10 Do. New . 2 all Portland Iron C 0..... 1 1t 1 100 60 Royal Mail Steam •• • •• -••• xd 1 .11 Sco . .. Austral. Invest li 11 1 A Ditto New I t 5 all 'oni - 11 Austral:Laud '4 - 35 al: Subata Tel. Scrip alt Regiatered I , 20 5 Crust 6s 10C 284 ran Diollloll% Led 112 13 x 1161 171 par ad Do.. AC. PX° From Beasts. Harlingen ...... 17 ... Amsterdam Tonning ' 203 ... 1,(9L - 375 ... - ... 1 ... - Total ... 220 ... 1,6 5 ... 28 ... 51 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs . 1854 2,433 ... . 4 ,353 205 194 1853 2,013 5,814 .253 259 1852 1,361 .;. 6,719 319 179 1851 1,411 ... 7,039 402 ... 297 1850 1,367 5,419 295 885 1849 1,149 2,615 ... 107 The receipts of stock for onr ma►kot, last week, direct from Ireland, w3re 82 beasts. Fresh up to-day, via Liver pool, we received 310 beasts and 800 sheep in fall average contlition. Owing to the late gal/4 the sh9w of foreign stock thin morning was compaTatively small, and in miserable condi tion. The losses at sea last week were over 200 beasts and 600 sheep, most of which were thrown overboard on Thursday morning. From our own districts the arrivals of beasts were very moderate, and we observed no improvement in their con &lion. The beef trade was somewhat firmer than on Mon day last, and the primest beef realised 2d per 81bs. more money, the top figure being 5s per Sibs. The receipts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire were 1,900 short horns, and from other parts of England 400 of various breeds. - The show of sheep was very moderate, and very deficient in quality. From their great scarcity the primest Dawns and half•breds were rather dearer than on this day so'nnight, with a good demand. The general top figure was ss, but, in some instances, 5s 2d per Sibs was realised. Inferior sheep moved off slowly, at last week's currency. We were rather scantily supplied with calves, and the veal trade ruled steady at last Monday's quotations, or 2d per Sibs. above Friday's prices. The top quotation was ss - per Sibs. Pigs were in moderate supply and ready request, at fully lat.) rates. Per gibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 l''rinae Sonthdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 1 Large crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Priuo large oxen 4 2 4 . 6(Prime small do 4 6 5 0 Primo Scots, 4xc. 4 8 5 O i Large hogs Euferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 1 Sms.11 porkers Second quality ...3 8 4 2 Suckling calves-23 0 30 0 Prime ors°. -wiled. 4 4 4 8 , 4u.srter old pigs. 23 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. I 1011EIGN SITPPLY. ' Sheep 3,*,5 fleastS . 8ea5t5.................. . 1,654 Calves •• •• • • • 127 Calves.••• •• ...... •• •• •• •• 146 Pigs.... .... ........ 60 A -- 11 - ee - GT. • • • • .. . • .. 22,651 F.gs .. • . .... •• .. .... .• • • 420 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold. in Sinithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Oct. 30, 1854, and in - the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, Oct. 29, 1855. Per Bibs, to sink the offals. Oct. 30, 1854.10et.29,1855. s. d. s. d.~e, d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 43 4to 3 6 'Second quality ditto ... ... 3 6 3 10,3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen. „, ,„ „, „, 4 0 4 8I 2 4 6 Prime Scots, dte ,„ ,„ „ „, 410 5 0 . j 4 8 5 u Coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 63 4 3 6 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 8 3 10; 8 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 0 4 4,4 4 4 S Prime Southdown ditto .. 4 6 4 IQ4 10 5 0 Lambs 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 3 4 4 0 3 8 4 4 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 B'4 6 5 Large liogs 3 2 4 413 10 4 Neat mall porkers 4 6 5 0 4 6 5 0 Beasts.., 4,801 Sheep 27,080 22,5)0 Calves... 109 127 Pigs 490 420 SUPPLIES ON S kLII, Oc.. 31, 1853.—Beasts, 5,387; sheet , 25,710; calves, 326; pigs, 290. November 1, 1852.--Beasts, 4,812; sheep, 25,050; calves, 185 ; pigs, 255. NEWGATB A.ND LEADENHALL. Since Monday last the supplies of each kind of meat on sale here have been seamnably extensive, but chiefly in poor condition. To-day the pi iniest meat, from its scarcity, sold steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. s. d. s. d Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 6 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 Per Blbs by the carcase. e. cl. e. d. Beef, interior 3 2 3 C Do., middling 3 8 310 Do., prime large 4 0 4 2 Dc„, do. small 4 4 4 ti Pork, large 3 10 4 4 BOROUGH HOP. The supplies of new hops are very large, and, as the brewers are well in stock, the demand for a'i kinds is heavy, on lower terms. Some parties call the duty 350,000/. Sussex rockets, 3/. 15s to 4/. 14s ; Weald of Keats, 3/. 10s. to 4e. 15s ; Mid and East Keats, 4/. to 51. 12s ; Farnhams, 11. 4s to 5/. 12s. per cwt. Last week's imposts of foreign hops was 31 bales from Rotterdam. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. inco this day se'nnight, the arrivals of potatoes have been moderate, and in excellent condition. For most kinds we have a steady trade, as follows :—York Regents, 853 to 100 s; Middlings, 60s to 701; Blues, 703 to 85s; Lincolns, 75s to 85s; Shaws, 65s to 803; Bedford Regents, 93a to 05s ; Irish, 75s to 85s per;ton. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool are progressing slowly, snd prices show a decline of from ld to 2,1 per lb. The following rates have been paid since our last :—Port Philip—Clean sheep's, is 6d to 2s; scoured, is qd to 2s ; lamb's, is Gd to 23 l d ; locks. lid to is 4d ; grease, 10d to is. Van Dioman's Land—Clean sheep's, Is Gd to is 80 ; lamb's, is 6d to is 9,1; skin, is 3d to is 41; broken and gre:.so, 8d t U 13 4,1. Cape—Clean sheep's, lid to is 5d ; scot: ::.d, le ld to is 6,d ; handwashed, is 1.1 to l e 4tl ; grea , e, 6d to 114. Adelaide—Clean sheep's, is 20 to is ; lamb's, is 31 is 8c1; skins, lld to is 44 ; grease, 8,1 to is per lb. In the private market we have uo business to repo: and English qualities aro offer ing at a decline of ? i d per lb. Last week's imports were I,EOO bales from Sydney. The following are the current rates of English wool : South Down flocks, is 00 to is i d ; mixed teg - i and ewes, Is ltd to is 3.. d ; half-bred hoggets, is 20 to is 3(1 ; do. ewes and weilers, is ld to is 2d; Swinton fleeces, mixed, is ld to is 1!d ; Kent, fine, le ld to is 124 ; Lei cester fleeces, le 00 to is 14; flannel wool, is Od to is 3d; blanket wool, 81d to is 00 per lb. SEEDS. There is rather more doing in clover seed, but prices are somewhat uncertain. Linseed is quite as dear as last week, and the value of cakes has an upward tendency. Turnip, White, per bash. 225 to 255 Carraway (new) • •... 425 44s Swede ........ •• —s Coriander.• • • .... •• 2:‘a dastard, 8r0wn...... —s —s fiempseed, per quarter 48s 52s new.• .... lOs 15 , Linseed, Eng.Sowiug.. - B rares,winter, new.... 85 CLI 10 Crushing •• ••.. 735 795 —s Baltic •••• .. •• —a — s Canary, per quarter .. 59s 63, Odessa •• •• —5 Rye grass.. •• 24s 30s [Aimed Cake, pr. ton— Clover,itedEng . (cwt.) —s —a English .. Os 14 , O. White ...• •• —3 —s Foreign,per ton 1210 s 131 133 Foreign Red...... —s —A Rape Cakes, pr ton 61 55 6 ' 105 White.... —s —s Rapeseed, New, pr qr., 933 945 Trefoil, new.......... 40i 46s TALLOW. We eontinue to have a stoady Y.Y.emand for tallow, both on the spot and for arrival, Prices are firm, and C. 01l tho spot is selling to-day at 63s 6d, and for the spring (345 6d per cwt. Rough fat, 3s 6.1 per 811 ye. • • 1852. • 65,409 00,771 21,612 30,`•72 23,092 376 G 4 tc. 43s Od 97s 0,2 w 66 . s 0,1 to. 63s 6d -- 4 43s 6d 57s Ci 66i Gd 9,1 2,939 2,124 3,025 2,393 3,177 3 ,. 499 30,137 45,870 30,316 51,958 26,165 5,473 2,064 2,386 1,404 67,375 26,280 44,167 24,388 27,335 39j 61 253 01 61$ Gd 68a d 65s 6d 1453. 1854. 1855. t 1451. Stock this day Price of Y. C •• •• Delivery last week • Ditto from June I. .Irrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel rrico of Town , ...• LITERATURE. The Isles of .L , ch, Awe, and other Poems of my Youth. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Lon don : Painter. 1853. A graceful little volume of from 300 to 400 page of verse, embellished with some sixteen charming woodcut illustrations—poetry and pictures from the same youthful hand, that of one Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Thank Heaven, Mr. Hamerton is, at any rate, not ono of your incomprehensibles. He writes melodiously, and, what is not a jot less de lightful, his writings are within the grasp of an or dinarily intelligent understanding. He, at least, is not another of your dreaming mystics in the ars poetica, another of your mooning metaphysici ans in pindarics-run-mad, another of those bewildering rhapsodists dear to the heart of Mr. George Gil fillan, disciples hailed with such ecstatic peeaus of rapture by the organs of your Baillieists of the pur sang your true, genuine, blue-blooded Brown ingites. Mr. Hamerton, if he speaks to us from a lesser elevation than a pythonic tripod, neither foams at the mouth nor roars forth the ranting sublimities of metrical nonsense and rhyming rho domontade. He thinks, and feels, and, besides this, has somehow or other the nack of telling us with a certain terse lucidity of language what it is ho thinks and feels, what are the precise shape and colour of his fancies, what the tendency and source of his sensibilities. In other words—he is sane—a declaration that cannot very confidently be pronounced upon every young poetic adventurer nowadays, one at any rate we should not dare to articulate indiscrimi nately as applied to the author of every maiden effort of versification in these later times, without having first of all instituted a very searching criti cal commission de lunatico inquirendo. Judging from his predecessors in the path to Parnassus, it would really,seem that Pegasus, honest steed, has recently got a spice of the devil in his nature, hav ing a trick of serving almost every experimentalist who ventures to bestride that Destrier of the Demi gods of Son;, somewhat after the same fashion as the flying horse in the " Arabian Nights' Enter tainments." Insomuch that there aro now stray ing about the fields of contemporary literature at this notable juncture, more, we fear a great many more, than merely iree one-eyed Calendars—the victims of their temerity in aspiring to soar to the Clouds from their palace of Brass ! Mr. Hamerton, happily for himself and for us his readers, has fared better in his literary adventures, being at this pre sent, if we may judge of him so far from his book, uomore afflicted with the prevailing one-eye'd-ness, than with the horrid obliquity of judgment and taste consequent upon a sort of moral strabismus. His literary principles are intimated clearly enough through the four eminently suggestive and signifi cant mottoes emblazoned on the fair escutcheon of the fly-leaf almost immediately following the title page. Emerson leads :the way with his reverent and notable dictum—" Tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can." Goethe follows with his kindred thought—" Let no one say that reality lacks poetical interest." Freud comes next with his epigrammatic and oracular utterance— " Men make Ideals—God makes Facts." Finally, there is the anonymous pronuuciarnento, which we may presume to be Mr. Hamerton's own, to wit, that "Lasting poetry is always co herent, and easily understood." The converse of which might not, of course, be quite so confidently predicated. Fur example, although the little book before us is for the most part, . happily for us its readers, sufficiently coherent and readily enough understood, we should scarcely venture to encourage its writer in the belief of its being in any obvious way calculated to prove a permanent addition to our popular poetic litera ture. It is observable of this same volume as characteristic of its author both as to his sanguine temperament and his graceful accomplishments that his verses have found in himself their own genial illustrator. Sixteen embellishments attest the deftness of the writer's pencil, while as many as eighty separate poems indicate the glibness of his pen and the fluency of his ideas, if they do not in any remarkable manner demonstrate the depth of his sensibilities or the amplitude of his imagination. " I hope," says Mr. Hamerton, p, xiv., " I hope to illustrate this work thoroughly with etchings of a larger size than the present form of the volume would admit. It contains at least a hundred avail able subjects ; but to do any justice to them will be a work of time, and require long preparatory study. If I carry out the plan, the etchings will be issued separately from the verse and in parts." Obviously from all which Mr. Hamerton is im pressed with a high notion of the intrinsic value of his " Poems." Otherwise he would never dream of " long preparatory study" with a view to their ultimate embellishment upon a scale commensurate with his own elevated estimate of their importance. We would earnestly recommend him, on mature reflection, to abandon any such day-dreams, fur the cherishing of some other purpose better calculated to evidence his capacity both as an artist and as a versifier. We say this in no disparagement what ever of the engravings distributed through this his maiden performance—sketches for the most part as graceful in their way as the poems they are designed to illustrate are coherent and comprehensible. We only question whether a project such as the one hero foreshadowed—of larger etchings to be issued from the press in a serial form, the result of "long prepa ratory study," and extending possibly to the number of a "hundred"—might not after all be somewhat disproportioned to the value of the original letter press. Several of the pieces introduced in that division of the book which might be classed under the head of the miscellaneous, are rather, it seems to us, unluckily suggestive of certain famous frag ments of verse not very easily forgotten—hinting at ever " odious" comparisons—as with the lines on "My Old Dog's Grave," reminding one of the exavelled paths of Newstead ; or the " Lancashire Bell-ringers," calling back to memory the weird " tinkle, tinkle, tinkle" of the " Bells" of Poe ; or the " Helmeted Skull" reminiscent of the " Ske leton in Armour" of Professor Longfellow. Not so that glimpse of a " London Studio" which Clive Newcoma might have recognised as better than the old crib at Gandish's—or that celebration of "My Own Violin," which might have harmonised with the love of his old familiar by the father of Viola, that wonderful " wizard of the bow" in " Zanoni." It is in this little tribute to his violin that our writer happily speaks of the powdered resin on its breast as the "fallen rain of melody." Commending Mr. Hamerton's laudable love for simplicity, we nevertheless cannot but regret some times its rather distressful degeneracy into twaddle, as when, in the opening of " Skating before the 'Wind," ho writes— " 'Look down—the ice streams under us ; This is a frightful speed 1' My friend looked down, but not for long, And said, ' It is, indeed.' " Twaddle, we repeat—nothing better. Such, however, by no means, are ingenious verses, like those epigrammatically addressed "TO A SARCASTIC NEARTY. "Your breast is heaped like mountain snows ; Your cheek is like a blushing rose ; Your eyes are black as ripened sloes-- Like diamonds do they glitter. I do not flatter like a fool : The diamond is a cutting tool ; The rose is thorny ; snow is cool; And sloes are very bitter." A conceit in the vein almost we had said of Herrick, or of Suckling. Better than all the rest of the volume together, are some two or three of the "Poems' on War." Not that we would class among the number, either in subject or in merit, the stanzas to the fair lady, who, with all her graceful womanly excellence, seems very mawkishly apostrophised here, as "Holy Florence Nightingale 1" The war - poems we especially allude to, as deserving to our mind of peculiar praise, and no small.share pf admiration, are those relating to " Marshal St. Arnaud" and " G?ne,. ra, l Scarlett." Nobly is it sung of the ht?r,ow Arnaud, as he appeared (dying) upon his 'twar horse at the battle of the Alma : "And Death himself respected him, Though he would have him soon ; And on his right hand and his left There stood a brave dragoon, And held the Marshal on his horse, To hear the merry tune — The merry music of the .9"!", 3 ! The shouting on the hetglg, The dull metallic clash of h s t eel, When band to hand t ey fight, And the last volleys that pursue The vanquished in their flight, He died a noble death—he proved What be bad suffered long ; He died a n obler death than those Who go to battle strong, And fall without pang, and have Bright epitaphs in song. And where the living in the camp, The dead upon th e fi eld, Slept soundly—in the Marshal's tent His last despatch he sealed, Telling his army's fortitude_ His own he kept concealed. Brave Marshal ! to the shores of France A mournful vessel bears The soldier taking rest at last, And free from all his cares— And freshly green is the laurel wreath The dead man calmly wears." Scarcely less beautiful is the tribute to Brigadier Scarlett, in honour of the glorious Heavy C avalr y charge at B a l a kl ava , saving the one flaw about the Russians : " They turn, well thrashed," 4-sc. Here is one very admirable stanza : "They say it is a fiendish joy, Not human feelings Oat they feel, Who ride 'like devils dressed in red,' With heads of grass and stings of steel. 1 know not what you felt yourself, &Leath that plume of flowing white, I only know that you displayed The courage of an English knight." With words like these yet lingering in our me mory we-close this little volume—poetical and, pictorial—from the hand of Philip Gilbert Hamer ton ; prepardd to meet him rather as a friend than as a stranger, whenever he may adventure once again upon the flowery paths of the fairy land of literature. Les Huguenots et la Ligue au Diocese de Boulogne. Esquisse Historique. Par F. Lefebvre. Bou logne-sur-Mer, 1855. Very recently an entirely new vein of historical research has been opened—one that gives promise to the world of the recovery of no small amount of the hitherto buffed treasures of literature. Allu sion is made, of course, to the concentration upon any one given locality of the heretofore scattered lights at once of written and of traditionary intelligence. An enterprise of this particular kind has always appeared to us to bear that peculiar relation to a place which, in regard to an individual man, is assumed by a biography. In lieu of the hero and his career, we have, however, here presented to us the scene and its associations. And the narra tive thus submitted to examination comes to us in consequence invested with all those manifold and alluring charms, which may have been previously regarded as constituting the distinguishing fascina tion and especial prerogative of the records of the biographer. That such, howbeit, need in no way be regarded as the exclusive possession of the me morialist of suffering or struggling humanity may be appreciated readily enough upon one moment's reflection, bearing in mind, as every meditative observer cannot fail to do, how accurately it may be said of certain lo ca liti es that they aro invested no less remarkably than certain personages with the wondrous and bewitching glamour of very me morable vicissitudes. In this lies the secret attraction of Victor Hugo's noble ars,hceologi cal romance of " Notre Dame de Paris as also might be declared in a lesser degree of Har rison Ainsworth's melo-dramatic chronicle of " The Tower of London." Here, too, is discoverable the source of the interest felt by intelligent readers in the recently published description of " Corfe Castle," as also yet more recently in Leigh Hunt's garrulous gossip about the "Old Court Suburb" of Kensington. M. Lefebvre ventures upon loftier regions, however, in his half-topographical, half historical treatis e i n re f erence t o le League and the Huguenots--though the ground penetrated by his antiquarian mattock is, so to speak, of the same geological formation as that already particularised. Our author writes, nevertheless, of the time selected by him for investigation neither as a poet nor as a romancer, rather be it said as a historian and a hagiographer. His " Sketch" he himself has for mally designated historical upon its very title-page —while its religious character is sufficiently well indicated by the nature of the theme itself, that of the struggle long ago in the dim past between the League and the Huguenots, those episodes of the struggle at least which are known to have trans pired within the limits of the Diocese of Boulogne. Although the researches made by the learned writer during the progress of his very curious investigations upon the subject of the Diocese of Boulogne (in as far, at least, as the records of that Diocese are illustrated by the me mory of the great contest between the League and the Huguenots) have manifestly been both very extensive and very voluminous, he has nevertheless contrived to compress his historical sketch of the contending religionists within the compass of ten chapters, chapters supported on either hand by a " Preface" and an " Appendix," in more than ono respect eminently characteristic. That famous aphorism of Bossuet, which declared that whenever the authority of religion was set aside everything resolved itself into revolt and ideas of sedition, may be taken as the motto of M. Lefebvre, and as such may be considered clearly enough expressive of the bias of his convictions and the general ten dency of his arguments. It shoald not be over looked, however, that the author prepares his reader for an examination of this same argument by the explicit avowal that he has entered upon the epoch of which his narration treats without preju dice or predilection—with the solo intention, in deed, of conducting his inquiries with the strictest regard to their impartiality. The preliminary outline given by him iu the preamble to his initial chapter may bo accepted as a not ungraceful ex ample of this prevailing and scrupulous impartiality, the outline that is of the memorable movementwhich dated back to somewhere about the year 1517, to that notable pontificate of Leo X., during which a moral earthquake may be said to have moved to its very centre the whole body of Christendom. Upwards of three centuries may be described, there• fore, as comprised within the limits of these ten terse, and lucid, anti eminently comprehensive chapters in relation to the Diocese of Boulogne and to the contest between the League and Huguenots. The principal epochs of the narrative may be dis tinguished with sufficient distinctness through suc cessive events of no less marked importance than the earlier extensions of Calvinism, and the origi nal establishment of the Boulogne Bishoprick, and the first organisation of the renowned League and that ultimate revocation of the edict of Nantes, by which the struggle, here portrayed, may be de scribed as having been signally terminated. From the date, however, of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the narrative of M. Lefebvre is brought down in an ancient record of personages and inci dents associated in some sort with the Diocese of Boulo g ne to the September of 1854, when the illegal hawking of unauthorised polemics in the camps at Honvault and Ambleteuse may be de scribed as having been brought by the Imperial mandate of Napoleon 111. within the grasp of possible repression. Altogether, the little work under notice evinces much laudable erudition and acceptable scholarship on the part of its learned author, together with what is worthier than erudi tion and nobler than scholarship, a sedate and even severe allegiance to truth, and a deep religious earnestness. A MODEL COMMANDER. The chief and second cabin passengers of the ship Hope, from London, it would appear from the Melbourne Argus of July 16, presented compli mentary addresses, accompanied by a valuable col lection of books, to the commander, Capt. David Dewar, on their safe arrival at Melbourne. That from the former runs as follows : " Dear Sir,—We cannot bid you farewell without ex pressing how deeply we feel indebted to you, not only l for having, u n d er Di vine P rov id ence , b r ought us safely here through many and g reat perils, but for the g e kindness and attention we have each individually y re ceived from you. We can never think of °nr- to voyage in you, the Hope without a feeling of much gratitude and earnest wishes for the health, happiness, and welfare of yourself and Mrs. Dewar. the accompanying ye " We beg your acceptance of lames, hoping they may help to and s erve a as a slight remera m u se you during some of your future wauderings! ,_l9 brance of—Your sincere frien ds , me . nd cabin passengers ox. The address of the s r a ec t o itude and respect : presses even strongenrey, b e i ng the second cabin pas " We, the undersig _rope, out of London, for Port sengers of the ship 11 the honour to present you with the follow ing Philip, have passed unanimously at a meeting of resolution, held on board, Saturday, the said p a ssengers , on 30th June, doing, would wish 1855 ; and, in sa od faith of to assure you of the perfect andsincerity of our g o the sentiments therein expressed, and most earnest wishes that yourself and a miable lady may enjoy every happiness that this world affords, and that you may long remain in the ser vice that now owns you as one of its most able officers. "RESOLUTION. "Resolved,—That this meeting, consisting of the whole of the eacoud cabin passeig'ers aboard the ship Hope, do tender their most heartfelt thanks to the com mander of the vessel, Captain David Dewar, for the great kindness and consideration which they have experienced from him during the entire voyage ; and, in congratu- lating him on the speedy termination of the run, beg to express their admiration of his professional ability, the reputatio n for which has so long distinguished him. — We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, &c." An event of this sort it is always pleasing . to . _ record, but the above presentation is especially worthy of notice, Captain Dewar having 0 11 1 13 ,1 11 _ , previous year, while in command of the sa a a?, _D B ir es received, under similar circumstances 6 daahrrlad. equally complimentary, accompaniedftrire, from the some gold cup, of Melbourne man? a testified to gratified passengers, who especiallytiih 0 they had re numberless acts of kindness ;ell if commanders ceived at his hands. It were sell for though of this stamp were more former times to their the brutality displayed ship ca ptains cannot be prac tised now a days with passengers by some . th i m punity, there are many degrees between migh t what pass for adischarge of like of duty and conduct Capt. Dewa r ' s , A little considerationon the part of a comma nder extra d.ff renb may make all the i e ce etween a pleasant and disagreeablepassage, and when it is remembered a under what depressing circumstances a voyage to Australia is often taken, and how long it lasts, the obligation of the passengers to a kind-hearted as well as a skilful commander, and the value of their acknowledgments of it may be conceived honour• able to both parties, the above testimonials &Iv especially so to Capt. 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