The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-03 00:00:00

thb' . II 67i THIS DAY'S NEWS LAW' INTELLIGENCE.-- (THIS DAY.) --cs-- - COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) IN RE W. E. TIME. This Was an adjourned last examination. The bank rupt Was described of Mark-lane, wine and spirit mer chant. The balance-sheet prepared by Mr. Butler corn ileneed January, 1854, and ended June, 1855, and ! uo wed-Creditors unsecured, 2,6571. Os. 4d. ; creditors :folding security, 7221. 9s. ; liabilities (including claims Great Cambrian Mine 1,1411. 14s. 7d., Cardigan and Carmarthen Railway 1,5001., and Trigonebris Mine 8701.), 3 , 4 611. Os. 7d. ; profits, 1,8271. 18s. 7d. Credits-by 33 . 3 h at Bank of England, 11. lls. 10d. ; by debts, good 601 4 doubtful 3821. lls. 11d., bad 431. 18s. 10d. ; pro ?ertYl 4501. 16s. 2d. ; disputed debts, 2311. ls. ; property 2n hands of creditors, 3891. 17s. 6d. ; excepted articles, 201 .; trade expenses, 5751. 19s. 3d. ; losses, 1,9431. 2s . ; law costs, 3161. 17s. ; domestic expenses, 9601.55. 7 1 . ; liabiliti es , 3,5611. Os. 7d. ; deficiency, Jan., 1854, 41' 2 s. ; difference in books, 141. 10s. Mr. Chidley, for the assignees, said the bankrupt's mounts were satisfactory, and there was no objectio n "" his passing. The bankrupt passed. SURREY SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.) the September sessions for the county of Surrey com tallneed this m orn i n g at the Sessions House, Newing ton'entiseway, before Thomas Puckle, Esq., chairman, John son , E sq ., d e puty•chairman, and a full bench ° „ i nagistrates. The calendar contained the names of " prisoners for trial, the majority of whom, as usual, c an neither read or write. There are, however, many lei ° ll B charges among them—two for housebreaking, %yew for daring street robberies and robberies by ser !4l46. Owi ng t o the recent act of Parliament, which ; tl Powered magistrates to summarily convict persons 110 admitted their guilt, the labour of the sessions is 444 1 contracted, and no doubt it will eventually lead to 4 °ea t saving to the several counties in the kingdom. T he grand jury, having been charged by the chair man, retired to their room. The remainder of the day, was occupied by hearing eyeral petty larceny eases. POLIC E INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. l'o nexar.—Robert Russell, a young man of respectable 211earance, was charged before Alderman Salomon with forgery and uttering a check for 3/. Wontner appeared for the prisoner. 84 cco t tt, on e o f th e d e t ec ti ve o ffi ce r s , deposed that on ur claY afternoon about three o'clock he went to the 7 11d ec Joint Stock Bank Moorgate, and saw Mr. —.eivett the secretary, who handed to him a check put , to be drawn by Mr. Dudfield on that bank, 17Yable to C. Russell. The check being crossed to 6118 r 8 - Glynn and Co., witness went there ; and from , uation he received be apprehended the prisoner at ill f ather's resi d ence , Th e c h ec k wa s dated 7th July. told th e pr i soner h e appre h en d e d hi m f or f o r g i ng andu ttering a check for 31., with intent to defraud his h at er Mr. D u dfi e ld : prisoner hesitated for a few mi- NI and then said, "Oh, dear me, it has been on my ever since." !I* Remy Dudfield' deposed he was a custom-house 1 ,2 1 8 4 7' carrying on business at 66, Lower Thames-street, h .P r isoner, who left him on the 13th July, had been at . 18 employ nearly 12 months. He believed the body th a check t o b e i n th e p r i soner ' s h an dwriting. The O cat ure was a b a d i m it a ti on of his writing. He first 6 7 4 d of th e c h ec k on S atur d ay. k mak r * t. Legg, cashier at the London Joint-Stock thof Paid the c h ec k p r oduced on the 20th July, th roug h it t o ; t a r = i bg-house, to Messrs. Glynn and Co, and debited el utes ' I)l ldfield's account. The signature looks as if el utes a careless manner, but coining through the ti r j n g - house h e did no t l o ok particularly at i t at the 6 ° f Payment. kr t o • v , IT ontn er said the prisoner had unfortunately th ial , lfl itted the act in an unguarded moment, through !irifluence of bad oompaiiions, and hoped the alder would take a lenient view of the case. Nrf k l% Alderman Salomon said he had but one duty to o rm. The case was exceedingly clear, and he must t6 p rk l uit him. 4 ` 4 , c prisoner, who admitted he wrote the check, and 1 `; h e Was sorry for what he had done, was accord. %`, committed. GUILDHALL. te s s,,„ — ..O.IIOUSE INFORMATIONS.—John Win. Cooper 011-InatOOred before Mr. Alderman Finnis, charged, ler th e recent act of Parliament for the suppress i on 4 b etting -h ouses, f or t h at h e, occu pyi ng a cer tain t:s 1111° ' N .O . 112, Fleet-street, did knowingly, unlawfully, s : ci wil flly permit a certain room in that house to be by other persons for the purpose of betting on tl e ° f r e 3e , racing, contrary to the above act, whereby the tesP an t had incurred a penalty of any bum not ex- Z in g 1 001, fir 'te,, Pearson, the city solicitor, appeared in support A4:e i nforrnatior, and Mr. Parry for the defendant. s s -41- • Pearson ' said this information had been laid j'inst the defendant in consequenoe of the numerous ih ci t t :l al aints that had been made to the police of the ex til,-14ea of these betting-houses. This was just one of 84 ° eases contemplated by the . act of Parliament, ts;„lt had been stated that this act, if construed as : k l 'ed his Worship to do would be found to affect the ,11;'tated establishment of Tattersall's and all games of s ki t 'ne that took place between persons in private parties ti l , t u nnses. However that might be the act was not on Of tt , C OULIt not to be put in force for the suppression nuisance now complained of. It was a question krat importance to this city that houses for betting s s , 'lea of this description should not exist, affording th ` 4e Y did facilities for lads, clerks, and others resorting tf th ' engaging in games of chance much to the injury e nsselves an d th e i r em ployers. He should not rest :L" l 'e on that but on certain facts that would be de tanti)l+7 evidence. The l e arned gentleman then referred %C a acts r e lyi ng on th e 3d section as the one appli ° to this case. The fact of the defendant a licenced victualler did not affect the 1, ' 4 ° l l at issue. Whatever might be the result of the 6 r ®'!9, the l ega l c ity au th or iti es h a d d one th e i r d u ty i n - ging the case before the magistrates. Se a ti ,, tb enY Nelson Monger, police-constable 564, de o,: be had rea s on to b e li e v e th e d e f en d an t was the 1 1 ;Ilier o f t h e house, 112, Fleet-street. He had seen 11 1 i 1 ,,, th ere frequently acting as the m a st er . He saw s t ; tbsre on the 12th J u l y. H e went to a room on t h e 11, t floor, where there were about 20 other persons. th had before them lists of horses, with prices against tb ' The lists were lying on the table before where e eeper was sitting. d oe r ' Parry o bj ec t e d t o thi s ev id ence . Th e or i g i na l likt4tneflt should be produced to proie it was a betting k li efere the contents were stated. 1 % Pearson—You have had notice to produce them. lia r. Parry —W e have not got them. If not produced *" a right to give secondary evidence of them. Alderman Finnis decided on hearing secondary a rcs of the contents of the oocuments. tek, t . rn ination continued—There was a person sitting ,088 alt . Cooper with a book in his band. Mr. Cooper st r ,: n nnfortably smo ki ng hi s p ipe . Th e b oo k s an d thq r a Were kinds of tissue paper with the names of ilos," r 'el with the odds on them. He saw several per the,, tak e up the lists and lo o k a t th em . Aft e r that ttl eii * eist to the book-ke e p er , p o i n t e d t o some thi ng on hsti be and gave him money, or laid it on the table, Ae~" entered so m ethi ng i n th e b oo k. C onversa tions t - s g ° ing on about horse-racing. the Alderman Finnis—No vouchers were given for *s s l4l l: n eY received, he asked the man if a certain horse 4, ;tun for the Liverpool Cup—a person offered to tza to. 1 on the hor se . ‘ 4 l th iti 'ned by Mr. P a r r y—There were no refreshments Clo ob e ta ble on this d a y, n or any other person than Mr. N B? "tieking in the room ; persons came there ex ter,„ for Letting. He had never seen persons t a k e 4 or -411til ente in this roo m . He had a mot al objection to t ire P t e s , a , c ing- He had seen the same people five or six v ists m T er e betting. His was a beer-shop, not a licensed it w ee ' er a house. He did not like horse-racing, because t7l dead robbery altogether (laughter). l efe 't s ti " ,Baker, 635, went with the last witness to the 4 teis'P l 'e house on the 12th July, but was not ex -11:--ikif3r Mr. Pearson. t 'el c' r t Parry —He had never been at the house at 1 h our s - ,L, 3l 'ben an ordinary was held there, but at the tt ti w4en bets were made. )11 1 , 8 1 ,Wag the complainants case. c am e 4rr Y said this case rested on whether certain facts f lam e within the clause of a certain act of Par' ' Ng was a licensed house, which all the ts p — 'ght enter between certain hours, and could not 1/,,ace-ril)ed ou t by the landlord without a breach of the de fend e entnrsiss d The question was, whether the be - sass e • de e s , it) ,knowingly and wilfully permitted t rue r h '" house. Taking all that had been . stated to Sot' 44 : 1 ne sumitted ides defendant had not violated the if b worship ided to the contrary there was THE 41114, - LONDON, MONDAY EviNING,_SEPTEMBIt 3 1855, not a club on the eve of R. great race but-would be affected by the act of Parliament, not omitting the Gresham where there was always to be found a "eprinkling of alderman." The intention of the Legislature, by the preambie cf the act, was to put down certain bating houses kept for the profit of the occupiers. The act stated, "whereas a kind of gaming," it did not say all because the makers of the account were many of them great gamblers thern,elves, and the subsequent words of the third section stated, "that any person who, being the owner or occupier of any house, office, room, or other place, shall open, keep, or use the same for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, or either of them, and shall knowingly, wilfully, and unlawfully permit the same to be kept open, or used by any person, &c." This he (Mr. Parry) con tended did not apply to the casual using of the room, which would be a straining a penal statute but to a permanent usury, and that it must be shown that the occupier kept the place open for the purpose of betting himself, or " betting with the resorters thereto." Mr. Cooper had never made a bet, or derived any profit from betting, neither had he any lists of horses in his room. He hoped the bench would dismiss the case, as not coming within the act. Mr. Alderman Finnis, having retired to consider his judgment, came into Court, and said he was of opinion the charge came within the act, and he fined the defen dant 51. Mr. Parry gave notice of appeal. There were four other similar cases for hearing. BOW-STREET. LETTER STRALING.—A respectably attired young man, who gave the name of Henry Wilson, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a letter containing money from the General Post-office. From the evidence it appeared that this morning, from information received, the prisoner, who filled the office of sorter in the Inland-office of the General Post-office, was desired to attend at the private room of Mr. Boydon, the inspector of letter-carriers, and was there charged with stealing a letter containing money. The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said he did not know the letter contained money. The prisoner was this morning occupied in sorting letters for the fifth division, and Russell-square was in that division. [The letter stolen bore the following address :—" Mr. C. Snewing, Russell square, London."] He ultimately received the letter from the prisoner, which he now produced, and it was precisely in the same state as when he got it from him. The seal had not been broken. The witness was here directed to open the let ter, and it was found to contain a sovereign wrapped in wool, and placed in a card. The letter ought to have been despatched in the ordinary course of business this morning at half-past eight. _ . Peake deposed be took the prisoner into custody this morning at the General Post-office about eight o'clock, and told him that he was charged with stealing a letter addressed to Mr. Snewing. Upon which he said he knew nothing about it. Upon asking him if he (Peake) was to understand that he did not know the letter was in his pocket, the prisoner answered yes. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. CLERKEN WELL. THE LATE STRANGE APPLICATION BY AN ITALIAN PRIEST AT THE THAMES COURT.—This morning, upon Mr. Tyrwhitt taking his seat, a foreigner, who stated that he had been brought over to this country to act as a priest in the Foreign Legion, applied for his advice and assistance under the following circumstances : He stated that upon his arrival in this country, he took lodgings at an Italian public-house, at the corner of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden. After staying there for a few days he went down to Dover, leaving a box con taining six sovereigns and other property in the care of the landlord. When he arrived at the quarters of the Foreign Legion, he foui,d that his services in the capacity of a prie,t were not required. He then returned to bis former lodgings, when he discovered that his box had been taken out of his room, broken open, and the six sovereigns it contained abstracted from it. He had applied to the landlord, but could obtain no redress. Sergeant Gunn, 8 G, stated that this was not the first application he had made to this court when he had been referred to the police. He (the sergeant) had been to the landlord, who said there was no truth whatever in the applicant's statement ; and in this he concurred, for the landlord was a highly respectable man ; and in proof of this the landlord stated that when he left he went away in debt to the extent of 61. He might mention that the applicant had been to the Thames Police court, and stated that he had been robbed at a Ger man lodging-house under similar circumstances, when the magistrates gave him 21. ; but upon inquiry by the police the facts were precisely the same as related in this. The landlord would attend voluntary to-morrow if his honour wished it. It appeared that the applicant wanted to extort money. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would hear the case when the landlord attended, and the parties then left the court. THE CONDUCT OE THE NEAPOLITAN AUTHORITIES. The Government of the Two Sicilies has to apologise for two deliberate offences towards France and England. On the occasion of the fete Napoleon, a Franck frigate saluted the port of Messina, but the salute was not re turned. Such is a national insult. The captain of the vessel immediately telegraphed the fact to Paris, and I presume a correspondence is now taking place on the subject. The second offence is a deliberate insult offered to a member of her Majesty's Legation at Naples, who has been gratuitously insulted by M. Mazza, the Minister, or rather Director of Police, in the form of abusive language directed towards the gentleman in question. Lord Clarendon I presume is in possession of a despatch on this subject. His lordship will probably remember that the archives of the Foreign-office contain many unredressed offences of the police practised on British subjects, and it is a positive necessity this time that the Neapolitan Government should be made to apologise openly and through the medium of the official journal for a❑ offence directed against a servant of the British Crown, and therefore against the Sove reignty of England. Such a proceeding is necessary for the honour of the country, and the support and weight of her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples. It is not enough that Sir W. Temple should receive a despatch assuring his Excellency "of the friendly feeling entertained by the Government of the Two Sicilies towards that of her Britannic Majesty," &c., &c. The insult was public—the atonement should be the same. The affair is of a nature to justify Lord Clarendon in demanding the dismissal of M. Mazza, which would be doing a good turn to the King himself. M. Walewski is no doubt alive to the necessity of re pairing the insult offered to France. It is urgently ne cessary that our Ambassadors should co-operate and support each other on all questions, however minute, throughout the world. In the present instance, too, no doubt the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris will dis cover, in these insults to the Allies, a meaning beyond the stupid affairs themselves, which, but for the excep tional condition of our foreign relations at the yresent moment, might be treated with contempt. Under exist ing circumstances, however, such acts demand special consideration and prompt redress.—Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post. STRAND THEATRE. If this elegant little theatre be the " least " in point of dimensions among the metropolitan places of dramatic entertainment, it certainly is not the " last " in public estimation, nor the least deserving of success on the grounds f managerial enterprise and skill, Conspi cuous among other features of attraction to entice the playgoer at the present season, is the performance of some of the Spanish Dancers who lately formed a por tion of the renowned Haymarket troupe, of which Perea Nena was'the central star. Tue dancing of Marcos Diaz aad Anna Della Fuente is extremely popular, and they are excellently aided by the clever and accom plished Madile. Julie and a well-drilled corps de ballet ; but we have a daughter of Terpsichore naturalised amongst u', who, on the score of genuine artistic talent, is justly entitled to a higher rank than any of the vaunted Spaniards. Such of our readers as may have been pre sent at the Strand Theatre on last Saturday evening, and beheld Madile. Auriol (Mrs. Flexmore) in La Ron• dija, cannot but agree with us in awarding the palm in her favour for vigour, aplomb, brilliancy, and accuracy of execution. Showy, agile, and sparkling as was the famous Perea, she was not comparable, to speak sin cerely, in sterling merit as a dancer, with Auriol, nor possessed of such legitimate first-rate qualifications. Auriol is a veritable mistress of her art, and her per formances deserve to be attentively studied by those who desire to know what correct and elegant dancing really is. Solid merit is entitled to more encouragement than it is but too frequently apt to receive, and were the public but more disposed to look at home, there would be a less extravagant furore for exotic celebrities, and, as in the ease of the distinguished danseuse whom we have specified, a more marked appreciation of domestic talent. The Duke of Rutland is, we are gratified to learn, in excellent health, and will, during the shooting season, receive a select circle at his shooting box in Derbyshire. The Earl and Countess Granville are expected to re turn from Paris early in the present week. The Earl of Clarendon comes to town to-day, from the Grove, near Watford, Herts. The Count and Countess des Geneys have left the Clarendon Hotel for Thames Park, Oxon. Lord Redesdalo and the Hon. Miss Mitford are stay ing at Bateford Park, Gloucestershire. Lieutenant Walter F. Robinson (says the United Ser vice Gazette) has been appointed Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Sir George R. Sartorius, Commander-in- Ch i e f at Queenstown. Lieutenant Robinson is an old h av ing served nearly 22 years afloat. officer,The S o uthampton magistrates granted, last week, 3,5 I public-house licences, There were 40 applications. MARKET NETVS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale iu most of the country markets held on Saturday were very moderate, and the trade ruled steady, on rather higher terms. All spring corn, inoluding flour, sold to a fair extent, at full quota tions. The latest advices from New York state that flour was steady, at full prices. Nearly the whole of the continental markets have been excited, and the quotations have been on the advance. Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. The imports of foreign were 6,148 qrs. of wheat, 477 barley, 16,935 oats, 932 beans, 107 peas, 200 linseed, 119 sundry seeds, 2,182 sacks and 2,172 brls of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our market to-day was limited, and chiefly composed of the new crop in fine condition. The show of samples being small, and as some fine English wheats were taken for shipment to France, the demand ruled brisk, at an advance in the.quotations paid on this day se'nnight of from is to 2s per quarter, and at which a good clearance was effected. The accounts at hand to-day from the leading grain dis tricts state that the wheat crop is not proving so large as was at one time anticipated. The show of foreign wheat was very moderate, especially of fresh qualities. Notwithstanding that the amount of business doing in most kinds was by no means extensive, importers were very firm, and, in some instances, they succeeded in realising an advance of from is to 2s per quarter. Floating cargoes were in improved request, and rather dearer. The supply of barley was trifling, and the trade was firm, at fully last week's currency. We had a better inquiry for malt, at full quotations. Good sound oats were very scarce, and at 6d. per qr. dearer. The value of low and damp qualities was sup ported. Beans changed hands steadily, at full prices, and the same may be said of peas. The flour trade ruled steady, at fully the late improve. ment in value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL, MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Rent, Red .• • new 664 to 78a Ditto.. •..... old —a —a Ditto, White new 70s 838 Ditto•••• .... old 84$ 85s lorfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 668 768 Ditto new •• •• •• 70s 77s Bye—Old ............ —s, New ............ 42s 44s Barley—Grinding..••• 30s 33a Malting ......... 32; 338 Chevalier.... . . 34s 35s Halt—SuffolkandNor. f01k............ 628 671 dr0wn.••............ 588 60s iringstonandWare 68s 70s Malt--Chevalier POI Yorkshire ..and 703 to 713 Lincolnsh., Peed 259 308 Potato ...... .... 288 318 Youghal aadeork Black. .. .... 248 28s Cork, White . 26s 30s Scotch, Feed..... 27s 30e Keens—Tick ......... 4ls 44e Pige0n5...,...... 43 , 47, Pees—Grey 35s 38s Map1e........... 38s 40e Wbite• •• •• ••• • • • 39$ 458 Boilers ......... 435 465 ','lour—Town-made..• 655 705 Suffolk .......... 545 55s Atocktn & Norfolk 53s 551 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Last week's imports of foreign stock were moderate, the total supply amounting to 8,372 head. In the corre sponding week in 1851 we received 10,051; in 1853, 11,226; in 1852, 11,967;, in 1851, 11,181); and in 1850, 8,178 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WIRE. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs From Beasts. Bremen Hamburgh ll Rotterdam...., 204 1,513 92 ... 213 ... Touning 216 .„ 130 ... 13 ... Tonningen. 226 ... 210 Dordt Nien Diep 94 ... 1,025 1 Harlingen Antwerp — ... 63 Amsterdam l7 ... 866 97 2 Medemblik 4 ... 772 ... 18 ... T0ta1,...1,347 ... 5,544 283 527 671 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1854 2,382 6,' 10 160 EO9 t 93 1853 1,729 7,558 196 882 802 1852 1,493 8,799 713 652 310 1851 1,948 5,643 600 600 641 There was only a moderate supply of foreign stock in to-day's market, and its general quality was inferior. From our own grazing districts, the receipts of beasts put up were but moderate. The few prime breeds in the market were in steady request, at prices fully equal to those of Monday last—the best Scots being worth 5s 4d per 81bs. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at, in some instances, a decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The receipts of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, &c., amounted to 1,600 short-horns; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 40 Scots. We were but moderately supplied with all breeds of sheep for this time of year, On the whole the mutton trade was firm, and last week's currency was well sup- ported. The show of lambs was tolerably good, and the lamb trade was heavy, at barely the late decline in value. Calves were in short supply, and steady request, at full quotations. The best qualities of veal realised 5s 4d per Blbs. The pork trade was firm, at full prises. Per Sibs to siuk the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 10 to 4 0 Second quality.... 4 2 4 6 8. d. , 11 PrimeSmithdown 4 10 5 2 Large ores. calves 4 4 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 4 Large hogs Small porkers 4 0 4 6 Suckliug calves 23 0 30 0 Quarter old pigs 22 0 27 0 4s 6d to 5s 8d FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts— ....... ........ 1,921 Prime large pion 4 8 4 10; Prime Scots, dm. 5 0 5 41 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8' Second quality ...3 10 4 2 Prime erse. - wiled:4 4 4 8 Lamb TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .................. 4,712 cheep ... •• .. • • .. .. •• .... 2,6310 Sheep ......... ... .... 4,750 7aivos Calves ..•• •. ..... • .... 194 Pigs . ................... 507 Fig 5............ " •• A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Sept. 4, 1854, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, Sept. 3, 1855. Per Blbs, to sink the on's. Sept. 4, 1854.150pt.4, 3 - . d. s. dds. d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 oto 3 23 10 to Second quality ditto 3 4 3 84 2 Prime large oxen ... ... 310 4 811 8 Prime Scots, &c ... 410 5 o i s 0 1855 s. d 4 0 4 6 4 10 5 4 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6 3 81 6 3 8 Second quality ditto ... 310 4 03 10 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 2 4 814 4 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto 410 5 0,4 10 5 2 L am b s 4 2 5 6:4 6 5 8 Large coarse calves 3 0 3 84 4 410 Prime small ditto 311 4 4'5 0 5 4 Largo hogs „, 3 0 4 213 6 310 eat small p0rker5.........4 4 4 8 4 0 4 6 Beasts._ „, „, 5,1;64 4,405 sh ee p ,„ 32,160 25,790 Calves... ... 336 287 Pigs ... SUPPLIES ON SALE, Sept. s,lBs3.—Beasts, 5,161 ; sheep and lamb:, 26,100 ; calves, 355; pigs, 260. Sept. 6, 1852.—Beasts, 4,701; sheep and lambs, 29,210 ; calves, 284 ; pigs, 375. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. For the time of year these markets are tolerably well supplied with each kind of meat. Generally speaking. the demand is inactive, yet very little change has take❑ place in the quotations. Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 4 3 8 Do., middling 310 4 0 Do., prime large 4 2 4 4 De , do. small 4 6 4 8 Fork, large 8 4 0 Lamb s. d. s. Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 8 Do., middling 3lO 4 4 Do., prime 4 6 4 8 Veal 3 10 4 VI Pork, small 4 0 4 6 4e 6d to 5s 6d. BOROUGH HOP. New hops may be quoted at from 9/. to 10 1 . 10s. per ewt. ; but the quantity yet received is trifling. Yearlings and old qualities are steady, at full quotations. The duty is still called 290,0001 to 3 0,000/. No foreign hops have come to hand since our last. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of most kinds of potatoes have become less extensive. All descriptions move off steadily, as follows : —York Regents, 60s to 75s ; middlings, 45s to 50s ; shawl, 50s to 60s per cwt. Very favourable accounts have come to hand respecting the general appearance of the crop. WOOL. The imports of wool, last week, were very limited, viz., 102 bales from Mngadore, 10 from Hambro', 60 from Con stantinople. and 100 from Malta. All descriptions of wool are very dull in sale, and the quotations are almost nominal. The following aro the current rates of English wool : South Down flocks, is 04.1 to is lAd ; mixed togs and ewes, Is IA to is 3id ; half-bred hoggets, is *I to is 3d ; do. ewes and wethers, is id to Is 2d ; Swinton fleeces, mixed, is ld to is ltd ; K en t , fi ne, i s ld t o I s 12d ; Lei cester fleeces, is OA to is Id ; flannel wool, is Od to is 3d; blanket wool, 81d to is OA per lb. ;DS• We continue to have a stem at fair quotations. The suppl and the quality of the sample Cakes move off slowly, at lab r urnt p,viraite, per bash. 22s to 25s swede .. • • • • •• • • —8 --s •Haste cd, Brown .• •• 12s 14s ly demand for all new seeds lies as yet are very moderate, ;5 is by no means first-rate. 3 currencies. Carraway (new) •• •• 42s 448 Coriander •• ........ 20 , 24e llempseed, per quarter 488 528 Linseed, Eng.iowing•• 72s '748 Crushing • • •..... 65s 72s Baltic .•• • .. •... 70s 78 Odessa • • • • ...... —8 Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English ...12/ Os 12 lOs Tilitte, new •• •• Sc lOs rares,Wlnter,new...• 11 s 128 •• •• •• •• •• • 98 lOs ;unary, per quarter • • 46a 50s Rye grasi• • • •• .. . •• 24s 30, Clover, Red Eni, (cwt.) ..-? White •• •• •• •• ••, —s Foreign Red.. •• •• —s White •• •• —s Trefoil, new.. •• •• •• •• —8 a Foreign, per ton 11103 121 Oa Rape Cakes, pr ton 6/5• 6110. RaDeseed,New, pr last, 401 421 TALLOW. Our market continues firm, and prices are well sup ported. To -day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 56s 6d per cwt. Town tallow. 55s nett casli. Rough fat, 3s id per Blbs. ISSI. 1862. 1853. 1854 Stock this day »• • •• I Price of T. C ,•• • I 1 Delivery last week •• Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from June 1 .. •• 30,774 30,579 i 17,342 31.903 35,563 383 94 to 393 3d ,518 Od to 669 0.1 to 53s Gd 393 Od te 393 6d: —s Od I —s Od to —3 Od 9,722 1,637 1 1,698 1,476 2,742 19,939 I 16,836 20,943 15,919 26,146 630 , 1,999 2,960 i 497 18 14,149 15,887 14,972 11,822 13,1 , 99 :toQ 61 I 413 04 52. 94 473 0 , 1 I Sgg Od Price of Town ISLINGTON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.—The gentleman who held the office of assistant -secretary and librarian at this institution during the first fifteen years of its establishment, and who contributed by his zeal and activity to some portion of the merit of its success, but who was compelled to leave it by severe pecuniary mbarrassment, has been enabled, by the fllling in of an inheritance, to pay his mortgage debts in full, and eleven shillings and elevenpence in the pound to his 111140 cured creditors, THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood. —A considerable portion of the " leading article" of Maga for September—a re markable paper descriptive of "Life in the Interior of Russia "—we have already transferred to our columns, through the medium of extended extracts which made their appearance in our impressions of Friday and Saturday evening. The writer of the paper in question had previously made himself fa vourably known to the readers of Blackwood, it will be remembered, by means of his narrative re counting in the August number of that chief of the Magazines, " The Internal Sufferings of Russia from thenr"—a chapter of contemporary history which did not fail to arouse very general interest immediately upon its publication. Another chap ter of a similar kind, and one possessing a no less immediate interest than its notable predecessor, here mentioned, nye have just now particularised as the chief political attraction in the present number of Blackwood's Magazine. This we say without any desire to disparage the merits of the closing contribution, the one entitled " Our Beginning of the Last War," a contribution referring, by a very appreciable analogy, to the events which have transpired in our own time sinee the date of the present\Var's Commencement. The superior charm of the article headed " Life in the Interior of Russia" is discoverable, of course, among other sources in its peculiar combination of novelty and aut4nticity. It will be found on examination to be the result of personal observation and individual experience. As such, it describes the landed pro prietors of the Holy Russian Empire —contrasts the condition of its serfs and its nobles—depicts the precise nature of the relations between masters and servants—sketches the salient points in Rus sian travelling—delineates the Siberian convicts, travelling convicts, the merchants, and other notable persons encountered by strangers in the throng of the Muscovite population. " Zaidee" the serial romance now adorning, during the last ten months, the pictured pages of Blackwood—unravels the golden thread of its story, tangled together in a plot of infinite ela boration. The interest of the narrative increases now with every fresh instalment. In such we look for the long-expected revelation—when the Vivians shall at length discover their lost Zaidee, the little brown Zaidee of seven years ago, in the beautiful, accomplished, gentle, Elizabeth Cumberland. The probability of this eclaireissement has become greater and more imminent now that the last few chapters, those we have just perused with eager curiosity in the new number of Ebony for Sep tember, has introduced the heroine of the tale not only to Percy Vivian, the Great Author, but also to his sister Elizabeth, the wife of Captain Bernard Morton, member of Parliament. After this fresh and welcome instalment of " Zaidee " comes a re view of " Maud :by Alfred Tennyson." Suffi cient for us, if we here observe in reference to this review of " Maud" by the critic of Blackwood, that the writer entirely coincides with the opinions expressed by ourselves in The Sun of Monday, the 27th of August, in regard to the extravagant de merits of the new poem as a work altogether un worthy of our Poet Laureate, and (as such) as one calculated to prove wonderfully injurious to his cherished and honoured reputation. An indiffe rent fragment of blank verse by R. H. P., entitled " Wagram : or, Victory in Death," together with two continuations, one (part vi.) of the " Notes on Canada," and the other (part iii.) of " The Impe rial Policy of Russia," complete, with another paper not mentioned, the current number of Blackwood for September. That contribution is itself the commencement of a new serial entitled " Light Literature for the Holidays" —part one having especial reference to " Belt's Life in Lon don." It gives some promise of fun—its writer possessing, evidently enough, a genuine apprecia tion of harum-scarum, helter-skelter, rollicking, roystering amusement. Recognising which, and leaving him fairly mounted on a good sound hobby, and off at a canter, we give him the view hallo ! or, if he likes it better, the review-hallo ! as our farewell greeting. Dublin Unibersity.—" The Fortunes of Glen core" is continued ; it is a strange story, but be comes more developed in this portion of it. Some new characters appear upon the scene, and the re cluse himself is more intimately met with. He was labouring under some extraordinary calamity which he would not, or could not, make known. Har court, a friend whom he summoned, was not much comfort to him, owing to his abruptness. At the conclusion a pi owise is matte by a mutual acquain tance to visit the retreat at Gleucore. This was Horace Upton, who was a diplomatist abroad, and appeared to be a more congenial nature to the un happy outcast than off-band Harcourt. Willy Traynor is the most interesting character to be found in the narrative, be is described as " poet, physician, and pedlar," and his straightforwardness and sincerity appear to striking advantage be side the cunning diplomacy, the covert sneers, and the sickly sentimentality of the others. " Alberico Porro" is proceeded with, and becomes more exciting, as we are at last introduced to the terrible end of all the midnight meetings and the concealed consultations. Young Porro comes for ward as the acknowledged leader, but the first suc cess is soon counterbalanced, and after all their efforts the Milanese have to surrender. At this critical juncture the unfortunate combatants are left to await the awful end that is prepared for them by covert treachery or open violence. " Brictic of Bristol" is an amusing chronicle in rhyme. It cites the adventures and misfortunes of a hero of long ago, for he lived in the days of William the Con queror. His life of levity and fun was prematurely concluded by being imprisoned perpetually in con sequence of having offended Mathilde the queen. In "Russian Literature" a sketch is given from the writings of Nicholas Gogon, which is a quaint and simple definition of the life of Russian peasants. It is said that Nicholas Gogan perished in a myste rious manner iu the prime of life, but not before lie had established a reputation which it was beyond the reach of tyranny to destroy. The cruel warfare that is waged against genius in Russia is thus com mented on : "There is no country in the world where the action of despotism upon national literature is more remarkable than in Russia. The pursuit of authorship is at all times proverbially a precarious one ; but in that country he path to literary fame leads only too surely to the grave. For the purposes of state policy, the vigorous censorship which exists over all the products of intelli gence is not considered sufficient; no sooner has a writer displayed any boldness or freedom of thought than he is pursued by a destiny which follows him in every phase of his career, and strikes him down generally before he has reached his prime. The history of Russian literature adds a new and an instructive chapter to the calamities of authors, and at this time it aff.rds a subjeet which cannot fail to prove interesiing. When we come to examine it, we can scarcely help feeling surprised that such a thing as literature exists there at all. A brief glance at the list of its v , ctims is almost enough —one of the most remarkable men of his clay, Kollzoff, was con demned at the age of twenty-two to perpetual exile in Siberia ; Belowky, the poet, perished miserably of famine ; Poutchin was killed in a duel ; Venitztinoff died at Teheran by poison. In short no sooner does a man of letters attain any eminence than he is struck down by a fate as mysterious a+ it is inevitable." Some remarks are made on the session, in which the writer finds fault with all that has been done on both sides of the house, but does not suggest what they ought to have accomplished. In the lines entitled "Antique Glimpses" there aro some pleasing verses, but the poetry is not so good as is ordinarily met with in this magazine. Those who wish for studious subjects will meet with them in some carefully-written articles—" Bunsen's Egypt" " Sirlsaac Newton," and "A Glimpse of Old Eng lish Diplomacy." ,4 Italian Literature during the Tercento" is an interesting subject. It is said that to the Triumvirate of the Tercento—Daute, Pe trarch, and Boccaccio—" Italy owes the formation of her language, the glory of her literature, and the celebrity of her name. A curious fact is seen in the different judgments of them, and now, as regards the appreciation of the works of the poets. Dante's fame is founded on the same fabric ; but Petrarch's epie,which then crowned him with glory, is comparatively unregarded : while the odes and sonnets of his lighter hours " still flourish fresh and charming, transi nittuig the name and fame of the poet from age to age.' y.—T . lie first article in this Baltic and Black Sea," minor details of the pro maßgeartzitnieey'iss /I , o i n isc ,, el T /a h ) e i re cording the Bombardment of Sweaborg and the Battle (..f the Tchernaya as the great events of the It is stated that the opinions otthe are decidedly Allies. A review gimuloetuistelol'nfiaitlniidteagrsyiievcgiielrg.clinesaolifYV.ie.nna, where ample in formation of Russian intelligence, origin is compared with French titvoura b l and e t o Englishthe prospects of the memoirs of the late . Lieutenant . Bellot gives an interesting outline of his life and adventures. Mr. Jolly Green's " Account o f the Que en ' s Vi s it to Paris" is not very entertaining. A. criticism on Tennyson's " Mauc l " does not say mu c h f or the critic's judgment, inasmuch ,, as he styl es it a "fi ne r poem than the Princess, and assert s th a t the work will win new admirers by th e energ y w ith which " a new song, se t with melodi ous mean i ng ," is sung to a well-stringed lute. The criticism itself is curious enough, being little more than extracts from the hook itself turned into pros e . A painful and striking story follows it, whi c h i s asser t e d to i be founded on fa ct ; t s entitled " A Draught of Poison," and the tragical event which it narrates is said to have taken place some years ago in a town in the west of England. An elaborate description is given of the " Position of the Russians in the and a list is added of the varions of attack which present themselves for the consi deration of the Allies. A sketch of the " History of the Drama in t he Middle Ages " gives an account of the singular miracle plays of the early ages of the Church. The list of expenses gives some curious items, such as "payd for starche to make the storms in the pagente," and, on another occasion, " Item, payd for settying the world of fyer." We cannot help agreeing, however; with the old Wy cliffite preachers, who contended that the tendency of such performances was to cause irreverence for sacred things, and not to promote religious feeling, as was at first their object. When we see the most sacred names recorded in this old entry as receiv ing a few pence for acting and for the decorations of their clothes we are certainly disposed to ques tion the impressive and solemn character which some have claimed for these old miracle plays. .It must be explained that in those days it was cus tomary to give the names of the characters per formed and not those of the actors. The writer of this article regards these old mysteries, as they 'were called, as the foundation of the English drama. "Even in Shakspere himself we see the influence of the old mediaeval forms, the boldnesS of the personification, the carelessness of the dra matic unities, the reckless anachronisms, and espe- cially the interweaving of the favourite comic scenes with the most serious, and even tragical plots—those characteristics indeed which the foreign critics of Shakspere 'nave so often misun derstood. It may be added that the.old mysteries were still performed to the lower classes, in a de based form, by the mountebanks in booths at fairs, though they had lost all their former importance, the memory of which, however, was still preserved in the use of the term•a play, a farce, &c., and in such phrases as to play, to bring on the stage, and the like, which we still preserve." " The Adven tures of Benjamin Bobbin " are continued for the benefit of the loverS of the ludicrous. The New Monthly.—The writer who has during the last few months been giving an analysis of the military resources of • the different European powers has contributed to this number a paper on " The Fortresses of Germany." The writer consi ders that there exists in the centre of Europe an amount of strength which,_ were it energetically directed, might put an en d to the present war. The internal'defences-of Germany are incomplete, and the result of the view which is taken of them is, that notwithstanding the efforts made to render her frontier. impregnable, some vital points are left undefended. The travels of Dr. Felix Magnard "From Paris to Sebastopol," though published under the auspices of M. Alexander Dumas ' do not offer any striking novelty. A paper on "Life Assurance Offices strongly advises the public not to abandon the old for the new without caution. " Ensign Pepper's Letters from the Crimea'' are continued, and describe .the attack on the Redan among the experiences of that hero. Au article on the "Natural History of Labuan" gives us some interesting ,particulars of that island, which is a fragment of the mountain land of Borneo. Na turalists will be interested in the perusal of the work which Mr. Motley and Mr. Dilwyn have written on this subject, as the island possesses many curious and uncommon species. A paper on "Let ter Carrying in the Olden Time" haS some amus ing notes of the postal system in those days. The practice of sending goods by the postmen or car riers was at one time very common. Some of these must have been rather formidable charges to judge from the following items in the postmas ter's letter-book. Imprimus—" Fifteen couple of houndes. Item—Two servant maids, going as laundresses to my Lord Ambassador Methuen. Item—Doctor Crichton, carying with him a cow and other necessaries. Item—Three suits of cloathes, for some nobleman's lady at the Court of Portugal." The "Haste ! post haste !" which is written on the back of many private letters at the close of the fifteenth century, would now provoke a smile. The history of " Stoke Dotterell" is con- tinned, and relates the novel adventure of a heroine being rescued from a falling house. Another pa per on the customs of the olden time is on the robberies of the eighteenth century, when the highwaymen and assassins had attained a degree of boldness and ferocity we now regard as almost incredible. The narratives quoted here from the news of the day are written without ally exaggera tion, and evidently treat as commonplace occur rences what would now be regarded as extraordi nary and appalling crimes. A new story is com menced by the author of "The Unholy Wish," under the title of " The Lunatic Asylum." It is written with his usual skill in exciting the reader's interest, though that interest promises to be a painful one, " The Dance Round the Plagtie- Pit" is a poem descriptive of the fate of some wretches who, at the time of the plague, spent a night in dancing round the fearful grave prepared for the victims of the plague. In the morning they were found dead. One of the most attractive subjects is "Literature in France," by Sir Na thaniel. It is not, however, equal to the paper in the last number. The " Diary of a Winter in Rome" is continued with interest. Colboine's United Service.—The war in the East and the bombardment of Sweaborg are, as a matter of course, the principal subject of comment. With respect to the siege of Sebastopol, the policy of the Allies taking the field, fighting a pitched battle, and sweeping the Crimea clear of the Russians, is again urged, the writer, however, admitting that, under the circumstances, the impending assault should first take place. The despatch of Omer Pacha to the Asiatic field of operations is forcibly condemned, and it is asserted that the relief of Kars might be more advantageously effected by an expedition from India directed against Tiflis. The prospect of raising the required Itaiian legion, and of its proving both physically and politically serviceable, is described as good. A triumphant flourish respecting the bombardment of Sweaborg, hardly warranted by the result, heralds a brief historical and descriptive account of Trebizond and Erzeroum. Subsequently the editor intimate 4 that t"e season will admit of more being done in the Baltic, which we believe ; but he actually praises Sir Charles Wood in connection with the late bombardment. Under the head of " Military Operations in Turkey," we have some common sense reflections on the real magnitude of the war, and the haphazard way in which it has been di rected, followed by a judicious attempt to throw light on Eastern affairs and people. Besides the above there are other papers more or less profes sional, and a cordial and worthily-earned tribute to the memory of that noble Frenchman Lieu te aant Bellot. LITEIATURE. The Old Court Suburb ; or, Memorials of Kensing ton, lioyal, Critical, and Anecdotal. By Leigh Hunt. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. It has grieved us profoundly to observe our author lamenting at page 257 of the second volume of these pleasant memorials of Kensington, that " con stant illness" has prevented him from availing him self of a gracious permission to see the interior of the homely old palace which was the birth-place of the reigning Sovereign. We cannot willingly think of Leigh Hunt otherwise than as of some happy votary of Hygeia, who in a lucky hour of his youth, " when George the Third was King," contrived to quaff,, on the sly, a draught of the veritable e,ixir vitae from the chalice of the sylvan goddess. We are fain to regard him as one exempt from the common ills of mortality. His genius has ever breathed about it so much freshness, hilarity, vivacity, and perennial juvenescence that we are not prepared to regard it as gifted with less vita lity than that which imparted a bloom at seventy to the charming cheek of Diana of Poictiers. He is still young—this blithe, frank, buoyant, cheerful Leigh Hunt of the old days—he is still young, at least to ourselves. We cannot think of him as he is represented to be in the frontispiece to the third volume of his Autobiography. We remember him not as one with grey locks rolling down to his shoulders—theseer ofgood-humour, thesage of mer riment. We recall his ideal visage to mind, as he must have looked dozens of long years ago, say in those blooming gardens of Italy where he was called to, in the fresh morning air by the voice of Byron, as—Leontius t He is still to our thinking in his early manhood, still the teller of the thrice told tale of the lovers of Rimini, still the all but in spired celebrant - of the weird" magician of the bow," Paganini, still what be was at the outset of his career, the ohief of that once despised, because, long mistaken, school of poetry of which John Keats became at once_ the glory and the vindica tion, and with this too the uncompromising, ener getic, enthusiastic editor of the liberal Examiner, Leigh Hunt is still to us all this, and much more— we think of him doubtless nowadays through the delightful memory of some sixty or eighty goodly volumes, directly or indirectly of his own compo sition—but we think of him at tha same time, too, as he was in the earlier days of his first publication. Wherefore, let us repeat it, it has grieved us sin cerely to find him now complaining of " c onstant illness," to find him giving any indication, in deed, of fatigue under the pressure of those years which , have failed to deprive his intellectual bearing of o that suppleness and elasticity which ar e c ommonly t the prerogatives of physical adolescence . I hope, therefore, that Leigh Hunt al ready g re pented him of his unwonted we e a s the v'igour dis away, as befits one who possess knes:e. played in these his latest volumes, the unaccus tomed crutch of the valetudinarian. Altogether these same volumes relating to " The Old Court Suburb" are as agreeable, in their way, :s any we have for a long while enjoyed the privi lege of having submitted to our examination. -As our author himself somewhat humorously con fesses it might be objected by a critical or hyper critical observer of the locality herein celebrated, that it—Kensington —"has a Palace which is no palace, Gardens which are no gardens, and a River ailed the Serp ent i ne; w hi ch is neither serpeutine nor a river." A n d yet out of this same region of misnomers and incongruities what a world of de lightful gossip has not Leigh Hunt called forth by the mere force of varied and facile observation. After a little etymological chit-chatabout the origin of the..name of this same "Old Court Suburb" Kensington, weare introduced during the course of a charming stroll about its precincts to the chief among its many diversified celebrities. Passing along the ancient and then - the modern Gore, we are told a numberofstrange anecdotes about the Duchess of Kingston and the Marquis of Wellosley, about Mrs. Inchbald and Count d'Orsay, about Wilkes and Wilberforce. When we get into the New Town, we pause before Kensington House, and while our author takes us confidentially by the button-hole, hear from his lips all kinds of good things that no body else would dream of telling at all, or if they attempted to do so, could not, by possibility, tell in any manner half" , =o pleasantly, in reference at one moment to the Duchess of Portsmouth, and at another to Dr. Johnson or his eccentric friend. Dominie Elphinstone. By the time we have saun tered into the High-street, we find ourselves jostled by the' motliest throng well imaginable, including in it old epic-acuanha Blackmore, Bishop Hough and Archbishop Herring, the Duchess of Mazariu and M. de Perigord Talleyrand. Yet the church and churchyard introduce us to still stranger company, and more curiously contrasted —to the Colmans and the Calcotts, to the Biancbis and the Charnleys, to Jortin and Spofforbh, to the lovely revival of the old, old custom of grow ing flowers on graves, and to a declaration which we exult over as coming from the mouth of Leigh Hunt, and as chiming in so accordantly with a long-cherished belief of our own, that sooner or later, " to the practice of urn-burial the nations must surely return !" Hard by the churchyard the Old Charity School reminds us of Sir John Vanburgh, dramatist and architect ; while, over against the New Vestry Hall, a dwelling now, aptly enough, the premises of an ironmonger, as it had formerly been tenanted by a glorious old de mocratic Gridiron, calls to our recollection no other than th e said Gridiron, William Cobbett, po litician and agriculturist. Afterwards we get into Holland House and its circumjacent grounds, and after penetrating Holland House, we find ourselves inducted into the Palace and the Gardens, which although, as previously observed, neither palace nor gardens, strictly speaking, constitute, as such, the chief boast and attraction of the Old Court Suburb of Kensington. It would have been impossible for Leigh Hunt to discourse for any length of time upon a theme so provocative of pleasantry as Kensington and its associations, without his givin g the rein, while so doing, to what might be best termed in Shandeyian phrase olegy his innate hobbihorsical jocoseness. We should have regretted it, had it been possible ; but, as we have said, it was fortunately otherwise. And so we find him at the very commencement of his labour of love talking of those high houses at Prince's Gate, long known among the wags of the neighbourhood as the Rock of Gibraltar (because, forsooth, they were never likely to be taken)--we find Leigh Hunt, we say, observing in regard to those same high ; narrow dwellings, that " they re semble a set of tall thi n gent l e men, squeezing together to look at somethin g over the way !" Again, we have him immediately afterwards re marking, in reference to the gradual disappearance of the once famous nursery gardens of Messrs. London and Wise, that "it is only now giving up its last green ghost before the rise of new build ings." With what a gusto, a little later on, h e quotes from the lip s o f M r . Wilberforce, quoting in his turn from his favourite poet—" Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"—as he glances over the green sward and under the broad branches in the still ample garden at the back of Gore House. We have occasionally, as usual, to forgive our author a casual freak of lan guage, as in the instance where he talks about "aristocratical enchantingness ;" forgiving him all the more cordially for the piquancy of manner by which those interjectional freaks of diction are accompanied. It is strange, too, that a writer should err in any such particular, who himself observes so sagaciously and admiringly of Cobbett, that " nothing could surpass the pure, vigorous, idiomatical style of his general writing, or the graphical descriptions he could give both of men and things, whether in artificial life or in matters connected with his agricultural ex perience." No less wisely, no less truly, when he comes to speak of the late Lord Holland, and in speaking of him reverts, as by a natural associa tion, to the infamous treatment of the Emperor Napoleon the Great, at St. Helena, does Leigh Hunt remark that "harsh men certainly had the keeping of the hero ;" adding—" But his keepers were not only harsh ; they were mean and shabby ; refused him a title in his adversity, which they were prepared to acknowledge had he consented to their terms—[Leigh Hunt might have added, " which they had already acknowledged, when he consented, a year before, to, their terms," viz. : prior to his withdrawal to the capital of Elba]— when they doubted the issue of the contest ; and they suffered him to be worried by a set of men in capable of understanding him, except as jailors. It was the revenge of long-defeated dullness upon fallen genius, and is a blot in the history of Eng land's greatness." Ah, well if that damning blot cannot be so easily removed—at any rate the hero himself has long since been fittingly avenged. Was it not on the last anniversary of the day of Waterloo, on the 18th of June, 1855, that, by a strange coincidence, Garter King at Arms was en gaged in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, in fixing over his Imperial Majesty's stall the insignia of the Emperor Napoleon 111., as Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter ? Speaking, as we are at this moment, of the Conqueror of Europe, as the object of the magnanimous sympathies of the late Lord Holland, we must, en passant, express our unfeigned amazement at the surprise intimated by our author—once editor of the ultra-liberal Exami ner—as to "How he (Lord Holland) reconciled his liberal principles in general with that un bounded admiration for Bonaparte which has lately transpired in his posthumous ' Recollections of Foreign Courts,' it is difficult to say." Difficult to say, forsooth ! this blending of liberal principles with unbounded admiration for Bonaparte ! Why it was explicable in the instance of a true liberal like Lord Holland upon precisely the same prin ciples as those which explain to the student of his tory a similar blending of enlightened policy and unbounded admiration in Charles Fox, and in William Hazlitt, in every unprejudiced man of liberality on this side of the Channel during those days of the first Napoleon, and in France in the hearts in like manner of such lovers of freedom as Carnot and Benjamin Constant. Has Leigh Hunt no knowledge, or has he lost all reme m b rance of that memorable incident which occurred in 1815 in Paris, when the republican Carnot burst into tears at the necessity which compelled the Emperor to write his second and final abdication ? Is he in no way familiar, this uncomprehending ex-editor of the Examiner, is Leigh Hunt in no way familiar with that dictum pronounced upon Napoleon Bonaparte during his lifetime, not by a Tory or a French sycophant, but by a great Liberal English statesman like Charles James Fox—" I believe him to be one of the best, as I am certain he is the greatest of men." Yet with these memorable in dications of unbounded " admiration for Bona parte" by illustrious champions of "liberal prin ciples," both amongst ourselves and upon the con tinent, Leigh Hunt is filled with incredulous or rather bewildered amazement at the evidence of similar principles and of a kindred admiration in the late Lord Holland's recently published remini scences. The truth is, our author indicates the fact more than once in the course of his present volume,s;he himself, with all his liberalityand large heartedness on other subjects, is as bigoted as any . old-world Tory amongst us in his fierce andheiuni.: placable anti-Bonapartism. But for this we s s e never find him outraging our common E by a tirade against the reigning Napoleon for his h e inous ingratitude to the late Count the score D'Orsa I and Coun tessn of Blessington. Ingratitude lip oir, as Prince that Louis Napoleon did notl fi pll-T President, out of the nation incurred by the ads of France, debts to the amount of 107, ou• said Count and. Countess fo gambling, and all other kindsr -we oellery, millinery, of frivolous extrava gances. And upon what plea, or by what clai m, forsooth ? Why, actu all y because when the Prince England the Count and Countess in an y another lion, tothoen was a refugee admittedor icensington ! two of the soirees likem en in Gore Hou_se_by more indignation, one accomplished Mrs g . l Leo Hunter, of Listening at first to our author's m ight reasonably suppose that if the Prince were not actually the father of the Count and Countess he must at least at some time or other in his chequered career have been saved by their interposition from some appalling calamity. Yet when the matter comes to be candidly exa mined, it turns out th a t these claims upon Louis Napoleon's gratitude are somewhat analogous to those which caused Mr. K . - • euwigs to exclaim, on j hearing of the marriage of his uncle Lillyvick with Miss Pettowker, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, bitterly, regretfully, reproachfully, " The bread ani butters he has had in my house, the hoysiters he has ate !" The simple fact of the matter, as between the late lamented Count d'Orsay and the reigning Emperor of the French, is that the latter proved himself as generous in regard to his old friend as his warmest admirers might have predi cated, nominating him the Chief of the Institution of the Beaux Arts, a post for the due filling of which that gifted gentleman was eminently well qualified. It seems to have been convenient, how ever, for our author to depreciate the value or im portance of this same appointment, and to charge with ingratitude and heartlessness one of the most magnanimous and friendship-cherishing princes in Christendom. So hardened for the nonce is the otherwise kindly heart of Leigh Hunt by the petrifying influence of his implacable anti-Bonapartism ! Turning from this to a more genial subject, however, it is amusing to find the answer unexpectedly given by our author to the question with which simple-minded, arith metic-loving Jedediah Buxton is made to bewilder himself in one of the quaint es t papers in Charles Knight's delightful volumes, 'yclep'd " Once upon a Time"—namely, as to who was Hickes, after whom was called Hickes's Hall, m en ti one d upon the milestones in the direction of Barnet and High ate? The standard on Corn hill was puzzling enough, he thought ; as also was St. Giles's Pound, and the like mythical points of metropolitan ad measurement—but Hickes's Hall, " there was the rub !" Who was Hickes? What was his Hall ? Where did it stand ? When did he build it ? And why t Jedediah Buxton might have learnt from Leigh Hunt, had he lived late enough, that Hickes's Hall stood formerly in Clerkenwell, on the site of the present Sessions-houSe ; that its founder was Sir Baptist Hickes, a wealthy sill:•mercer of Chea,pside ; that he was one of the money made baronets of James the First ; and that this same baronet ultimately expanded into a peer, under the name, style, and title of Lord Hickes [think of that, wondering ghost of Jedediah Buxton !] and Visco un t O ampden of Campden, in Gloucestershire. As a charming gossip de omnibus rebus relating to Kensington, commend us, and for our part let us heartily commend others, to these delightful volumes about "The Old Court Suburb." Readarightthey will prove in a manner tantamount to a personal confabulation, tete a tete, with Leigh Hunt among the green hedges and straggling the trim gardens and suburban lanes of beautiful old Kensington. A privileged chat, we take it, worth toiling for to obtain ; yet a luxury of that kind which any one may hero enjoy without the need of stirring from the slippered ease of the elbow chair. The " Old Court Suburb" indeed comes forth, moreover, in a manner the most welcome, because the most happily timed—as it must prove the acceptablest companion imaginable in these seasons of holiday s au n t er i ng by th e seaside or through the inland meadows—the very book to be turned over in a leisure hour anywhere in pleasant scenery : on the pebbled shore, in a window nook of a flowery balcony, or on the fresh grass under 801110 spreading sycamore. Stories from a Screen. - By Dudley Costello. Bradbury and Evans. If we are expected to admire Dudley Costello as one of the most brilliant wits of our generation, upon the strength of these " Stories from a Screen" —as some oue among our contemporaries would appear to have intimated through the publisher's advertisement—then may it also be anticipated that we should award the loftiest position as an English essayist, upon the score of a few quaint pages to the late Laman Blanchard. Neither of those absurd positions are we prepared to enforce. We can no more prevail upon ourselves for one moment to regard Laman Blanchard as one of the most eminent of our essayists, than we can claim for Dudley Costello the meed•of praise due to one of the most sparkling wits among the living crowd of distinguished contributors to light literature. The mere supposition in either case would be altogether preposterous. Fancy, breathing the name of Laman Blanchard as a master-essayist, in the hearing of those familiar with th e f ac il e grace and exhilarat ing vivacity of Steele, with the exquisite refine ment evidenced by the sportive fancy and be witching humour of Addison, with the sen tentious and dignified morality inculcated by the great didactic rhetorician, or with the capricious drolleries and freaks of merriment by which Elia won his way to glory through the periodical outpourings of wit and wisdom, known as the London Magazine ! Fancy this—and then, indeed, you may perchance contrive to imagine the possibility of our estimating Dudley Costello as one elevated so loftily among the group of contempo rary humorists that his name might be classed iu the same category with those of our shrewd Jer rold, our protean - Lytton, our incomparable Dickens, our sometimes genial and always delight ful Thackeray. How utterly frivolous it were to entertain the hope that any such position could ever be seriously aspired to by the writer of the " Stories from a Screen," any rational reader may recognise easily enough by turning over the pages of the volume before us, if ho have the patience, and examining, however cursorily, the twaddle, put forth in it—twaddle, that some appear actually to have mistaken for sentiment, mistaking also its vulgarity for humour, and its folly for anima tion. In testimony of which we need merely direct particular attention to the nonsen sical account of the journey made by Mr. Alfred Washball, and his friend M. Alexis Bon temps, "To Brighton and back for Three and Six pence." Or, soaring a little higher in the social scale, we may illustrate the justice of our remarks by luring the notice of the reader more especially to the record of an episode in the domestic life of a "Queen's Counsel and his Pretty Wife," in the per sons of Mr. Peter Quince and his spouse Emily née Snowdrop—one of the silliest little magazine tales we can at this present writing call to our recollec tion. Yet it is a book that contains " stuff," such as these two vapid articles just now particularised, a book relating such " sooterkins of wit" as might he gathered from " A Love Shift," or " A Paris Wed ling," or " A Portsmouth Picnic," from the " Fate or Jobst of Rudenz," or the " Piscatorial Adventures of Jean Gribon," from the " Corde lier of Sisteron," or the " Haunted House iu York shire." It is a book composed of materials so crude, co empty, so utterly valueless, that we are told by advertised puffs to accept as ebullitions of the fa ncy of oue of the most distinguished writers of our generation. As well mistake the snapping of a lucifer match for the " crack of doom," as Abet to recognise the mere semblance of genius through th:) , witless gabble of th ese " S tor i es of a S creen ." Lively they may be, sometimes, but then only with the liveliness of unconsc i ona bl e garru li ty , th e liveli ness of a prig mentally banished by every rational hearer to the Coventry of the land of Boredom. The Martins of Cro' ifartin. No. X. By Charles Lever. With the departure of the Martins the interest of this promising story deepens. Determined to make the people read a severe lesson for their in gratitude, the bitterly indignant Lady Dorothea has left behind her instructions for the stoppage of all the works, the distraint of the town lands of Carrigalone, Killybegue, and Ryle-a-noe, the cut ting of the demesne, the shooting over the seven mountains, and the fishing on the coast —the with drawal of all support from the schools, the hos pital, and the dispensary, and for the carrying out of other measures of a like vindictive n ature. The discovery of these instructions proves a heavy blow to the energetic and benevolent Mary Martin who, however, speedily rises superior to despon dency, and casts about for m eans to avert or miti gate the impending misery. Scanlan, the attorney, is sent for, and stimulated by the hope of winning Mary's consent to be his wife, whereby he would secure the management of the estates, the wily pettifogger is promptly in attendance and a t once undertakes to r aise 1,00/. on a deed of s e ttl ement available on h er uncle's death, and al so t o d o his best to thwart Lady Dorothea's design s , and how he succeeds with respect to the mone y, what arts re hede si g n h e a d s r o e r c o t u a r k s e e n to, b y arid ewhh high f . u s p r l t r h i e t r t: steps eroi a ne, we must leave the reader to discover, contenting our selves with adding that th e s i scene laid in Paris , where Captain Martin, the spend thrift heir of Cro Min is disco vere d i n com pany ' w ith a Mr. Herma n m rt e r i somewhat elaborately , a Je w gam bl er , who is introduced. To this pair, victimiser and victim, enters Lord Claude Wil loughby,umber *loses. L, word Wharncliffe, we are happy to say, is not so un• well as represented. The noble lord does not, it is true, enjoy the best of health, but he is only labouring under slight indisposition. The Earl of Westmorland, the ambassador at Vi'mna, from the Court of St. James's, visited Burghley House on Saturday last. The noble earl has since left his seat, Apethorpe House, near Wandsford, for a tour of visits in the north of England. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Five Shilling Day—Sept. I.—Ad missions on payment, 353 ; ditto by season tickets 1,674 ; total, 2,027. Corresponding day last year, 1,748, Fort Victoria, at Sconce Point, in the Isle of Wight, which has been erected to guard the entrance of the Solent Sea, is ready now to receive its artillery. On Wednesday last a young man named Charles Tutton, who stands charged with attempting to poison his father with arsenic, absconded from Bath Easton to avoid arrest for that offence. Owing to the unusually large number of ,insane sul diere who have returned from India this year the ac cominodatiuti provided at Fort Pitt Hospital for this class of patients has prov e d i n adequate, and on have been given fur the construction of a seps build ing, within the ramparts, capaVe o f accommodating 20 insane soldiers. 4rdaitro *I ,