The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLowi The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed very firmly, and prices of all descriptions were quite as dear. The sales were estimated at 8 ,000 bales, comprising 5,000 American, 500 for export and 500 on speculation ; 250 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to Gad. ; 1,000 Bahia (all on Rpeculatiou), at Gad. ; 300 Egyptian, at 61. to Bd. ; 1,000 Surat, at 4id. to 421. ; and 50 Sea Islands, at is. to is. 4d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, at steady rates. The advices from New York state that owing to the favourable character of the last City Banks' Return the market for Public Securiti(s had im proved. The stock of specie had increased 1,445,407 dols., but the loans and discounts were augmented 1,057,238 dJls. Accounts from Chili mention that a new treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation has been formed between that country and the United States. Commercial advices from Havre state that trade is remarkably brisk at that port. The demand for cotton continues good, and the market is regularly suppli e d ; prices are consequently without much variation, but firm. The lowest qualities of New Orleans are given at 82f. to 87f. per 50 kilos., and very ordinary sorts realise 92f. The sales of all kinds during the past week amounted to 13,152 bales ; the arrivals, 7,758 bales ; and the stock on hand up to Feb. 29 was 70,011 bales. The quan tity arrived from the United States during the two months of the present year was 53,302 bales, against 40,000 lastlyear. Wool was in demand ; 3.40 bales Buenos Ayres sold at If. 25c. to 2f. 15c. per kilo., and 26 Australian at 4f. 75e. to Of. 25.0. per kilo. _ _ By telegraph from Batavia, by way of Trieste, later advices have come to hand. The demand for coffee in that market is greater than has been for some time, and prices are rising. At the public Sales 30,000 piculs were disposed of at an average of 301 florins (Dutch) per picul. The markets in Sugar were better supplied, and prices firm. At Louravaya 10,000 piculs of No. 16 realised 150., 1 1,000 piculs at 151f1., and 36,000 piculs 131 to 14i1. At Samarang 4,703 piculs averaged 151{1., and 10,000 at 15f1. Rice was falling in price, in ecnisequence of the supply exceeding the demand, and Indigo was in request at 3651 per box. The corn trade is heavy, and wheat is 4s. to Se. per quarter lower. The shipping list compiled by Mr. Miller, of the Jerusalem Coffee-house, gives the following parti culars of the number and tonnage of vessels now 01 1 the berth for Australia, Now Zealand, Van Diernen's Land, &c. Vessels. Tons. Australia, Melbourne, and Geelong '22 ... 21,24 New South Wales l5 ... 11,265 Adelaide . 8 4,565 Swan River 1 ... 406 Van Diemen's Land New Zealand 4 ... 2,226 There is more firmness in the market for English securities, in consequence of the intelligence that th e preliminaries of a peace have been signed at. Paris, while the expectation that the Emperor's Speech will be favourable impart; confidence. Consols opened at 911 h / for money, and have since been 91 4. Theaccount prices from 91 1 have risen to 91/. The Scrip is 11 prem. Exchequer Bills are 2s. discount to par, and the Scrip is 1k prem. The New Three per Cents. are 92 to 93i, and the teduced 9l Z. to 92. Foreign Stocks are quiet, but firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 95a z for money, and 951 to 96. Span;.sh Deferred are 23l /, Russian 5 per Cents. ar e mil, Sardinian 891 to 90, Danish 3 per Cents. 8 31, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. 1021. French 3 per Cents are 73 50, with the exchange at 25 60. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bond 9, 61 74; Mexican, 20: / ; Peruvian, 78 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 58 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 8 per Cents., 42:2 3i ; ditto Deferred, 231; 4 ; ditto Certificates, V I 5 ; Ditto Passive, 61 Y. Au improvement has taken place in the Railway Share Market. Caledonian have risen ss. to 10s., Groat Western 18s., Lancashire and Yorkshire sg. to 10s., Midland ss. to 10s., and Norfolk 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been dull. Mining and Miscellaneous shares are quiet. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY .A.T CLOCK. (From* the Ofiinial .<u• +,-- 'done. 8 por Cent. Redrtced A,nnuitiag , IPer Cent Consols Annxitieh 9IA i L . 4 ,3, 3 per Cent. Annuitiee ... 921 3i Annuities 744 L'ong A n expire sth Tan. 1860 .. 31 Ditto :10 Years, expire sth April, 1 885 India Stock 2234 44 C .-o , s inr Account Ditto Scrip Exchequer Scrip ••• ll I' E •-ii,quer Sire s 24d. £lOOO —,, . £5OO ~ ,, nll ,„. Ditto Advertised wDitto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 9 , A Ditto, 1459 98 PRICK OF FOREIGN' FUNDS AT ONP. O'CLo• K. Prazilisn Bonds. 5 per Cent. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 B3l Enssiati Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1322, £St lO l 3 /4 x d strd inian Bon .s, 5 per Cent. B put i sh 11m.ds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Defcied, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ti , -1 ,, ,1i ',ends, 0 per cent 951 Ditto Account •.,7,:t..1. rr. ,r, Ahnvo ~, e lle ir: !,,,,%, 'French Rentes, 4i per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent 73f 50c 25f 40c TWO O'CLOCK.. °Also's, Ditto Account LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(rbis Day.) Diyorr, March 3.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E.; looderate breeze and cloudy. RAMSGATE, March 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—French Ship -of-war Faon, from a cruise. DovEit, March 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Barbadian, from the Manritiu.. PORTSMOUTH, March 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Co linda, from Callao ; Valisneria, from London, for the Cape of Good Hope, with loss of mainyard. LIVERPOOL, March 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—James Baines, from Melbourne, with about 100,000 ounces of gold ; Persia (s.), Ness: York, with 700,000 dollars in specie. BRIDLINGTON, March 2.—The Bective, of Hartlepool, was abandoned on the 20th Feb.,after being in collision with the Leith (a.), of Louden, hich proceeded without serious injury; crow saved. Prxmourli, March 2.—Wind E.—Arrived—John Pur dee, from Newcastle to Constantinople, to stop a leak ; Ernest Blanche, from Santa Martha, for Havre. Sailed — Golden Gate, for New York. FALMOUTH, March 2.—Wind E.—Failed—Great Bri tain, for New Orleans; Wilbelmina, Bombay; Blue Jacket, Madeira. OFF BIDEFORD, March 2.—Thetis, of Exeter, in tow of the bri g Ann, of Plymouth, disrnasted, from contact with the American ship Arctic, from Boston to Cardiff. KINSALE, March I.—Wind E. Arrived—Hope, from lionduras, with loss of main and mizen-topmasts. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.? SOUTHAMPTON', Monday Morning. Arrived—Bessie, from Sunderland ; Pacific, Stockton ; Eden, Alexandria ; La Poule, Cherbourg ; South-Western, (s.), Jersey. Sailed—Limerick Lass, for Newport ; Queen, (I.), Oporto ; Sisters and George Johnson, Sunderland ; Do. voushire, (s.), London ; Goinalza, Australia. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind E.N.B. Arrived—Lancaster and Potomac, from New Orleans Victoria, Mobile ; Standard, Savannah ; Sea Belle, Char. leston. Sailed—Gambia, for Toulon ; William ani Charles, Gib rafter ; Leno, Genoa. DCBLIN, Feb. 1. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Lady Cecilia, froth Alexandria. WATERFORD, Feb. 29. Wind S.W. Arrived—Sylpb, from Magazan. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 1. Wind E. Arrived—Granton and Sand. Roddington from Callao ; Esth er A nn , P er nambuco ; N or th Star, Athens ; Abana, Syra ; Nancy, Mazagan. BY SUBMARINZ AND BRITISH TRLRGRAP*3.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.38 a.m. Wind N.E., fresh, and cloady, past high water. Arrived, 2d—Wave, from Guernsey ; Barbadian, Mau ritius; Alford, Stettin; Anna Dorothea, Memel. 3d — De Jonge Rent* Worcum. Sailed, 3—Wynand, for Ilona Kong. DEAL, Monday, 9.15 a.m. Wind N.E. by N., strong. gpassed —Tar, (schoo ner ), f r om Swansea, for L on d on ; (schooner), Shi e ld s , f or Ri o J a neiro : her M a j es t y ' s guboats Griper and Ilerrin2, from the River, for Ports tin% 5 5 20 10 •__~~. '-r..:.. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) R ►; -~ RAILWAYS, . Ambg, Nottng. ‘n(l &An. Jmut. ;rolyrno , ming. Wolve • Valley rk e '' l .eehire , ▪ elterb. .4 Birk £5O and £25 C ..... &Tynsorigin, .£25 (issd. at £4 tiristel and Exeter dedonian. ..... 'arm. and Ca , dip) 'heater At Holying. 'ork and Bateau fork, Black, &Pas To wail Do. A Do. B frie'f Junction.... Deb.in&BelfastJune , Dun. P. & A 0, , ;. jne, East Av•glian (Eastern Couution East. 'anion. A. SRI Do., B. Stoefr... Do., New A ..... - East Kent ..,apt Lancashire Mint u-gh & Glasgo Erlinb. and Peebles ?din. Prtl. & d.-.• "ortb & Clyde Jen ~ Furness Do. Extension Glangow&S. West Great N. of Scotind. Great Northern &West.glrr great Westorn Do Stour Val Ra' Gua. Stk.. Cris), South-BaE,%r r.onea.ster De., Thirds Do. 'Now Thirds ' LAncash. and,York , Do., Wet. Riding Ur. LivCrshy.&Sonth London & Blackws Lona. Bright & S.CF t. Lond and N. Woo, Do. Fifths Do.lo/.15h..1t &H C Do. Eighths Lonlon and& NVeR, Du. , Do., £40.. Lntirrirrytt CoLorain Larintlrr7. 6c Ennifs! , qznel - t.Shef. Az. Lint , „Man. P:, 1.T7 , !Stetropolitan .11nut . „,, , , 1)o. airainv. &Der, 3tidld. G. West. II Do. Half Shares... N,Reastle St Carnal Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf Newry &Euniskill, Newry Warrenpoir, And Bestrewn . . Norfolk ....... 'Northn.Counties North British ...... Dovon. Rai'. & Deck Stock 1 , 0., A. Stock ..... , fe., B Stock ....... 'Do., B Guarantee , N. Eastern-13erwi , Do. do. Extension urol, Do. Lords Do. York North London v. &S. Watrn. , Pam -, stead, and City North Staffordshir ' , forth Western.... Nr. & S. West rn. Jun , : Nuneaton, , Leicester.. tv, Wurc., lk Wolv ;,c.rt.4:.)onth 'zsotCsh Central fBcottishl%firilArtd ' 1 .11 , -opsitire '3ontll Devon oatb. Eastern =tuth Wales e.; Riv. Dnr Wolr. Stockton !t Darli & Vtle.. iln. Pref., No. 1 T. , ;mos Tla7. D.& R. Ulverstono & Lama 17ttle of Neath !Waterfd. Kilkonn3 IWaterford&Vdnerel 'est Cornwall INVest End of Lond. , -1. I and Crystal Palace, Do. A Do. B .... B. . iWoRt Loudon.., Wimbledn&Croydol Clostnk Prices rdsy 4k 4i 8 - Si 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 8 85 -- $1 57 - 67} ••• "".. 4 - 2 8 - 8 126 13 9i 32 - 31 22 - 24 , 70 - 72 51 &f 3 - 26 - 27 85 - 87 6i - 7 93 - 93! 78 80 [l9 121 Lot - Oi; 59 - 59 76 6} 7 6 7 82 82 7 7i 93 09 991 - 100 d id par, 92i 93.1 id 69i 70 40 42 10 - 11 51. 53 3i 3idl 29 30 75; -76 -- 6 4i -- 51i 52 88 90 6i -• 610 9 10 22 - 24 'O4 106 74 7G 46 48 lii '2i' 65 66 71 73 4 - 2' lk id 4 36 .. "..... 19; - 20 3i -4; 6j - 7i FOREIGN. td m Do. sp. c. Igs. con. in Sli. at par till NI4 Ardonnes Etritn. Jun, 4exier , , to(lrsjca•99:+ ilornbay, Baroda, an r'l , :terii Ind 5 , 17 Do. I.,cuicrara Zastern Franc, East Indian, g. 5 p. Vlrt..tgier p c.13nd5.,'57 ! , • Gee ong Melbou no guar. 5 per c nt. . Do., Lon. allot., do. GI. Tit, of Canada A !F DO. Do. Cert of Dollen. con. into Stk. till 'e Do. Comp. 6 p. e., do Gt. en,tral of Fran,. Gt. Indian Poninen' Great Luxerabour. Constituted Sham , / Do. (Thlization.., Do. re-is. • orftd. SL .I Gt. Western o f Cana(' al Do. New Du, BAs., payable'r:7, with option till '55., Do. do., .62, p. '56 Do. do., '7(, p. '6O , Dr,. do., '73, withont option Ram il ton & Toront Do. q per cent. Lahc & Liorra and Turnhout Lucca Pist. sp. c.p Lyons and Gen. , v , Lyons & gadray, gua • 4 • p.c. Do NOW o. ,5 p. o Po. 4 p. c. Exton Karla Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Lieu' Oriti Interest) Do. (ex inten;st).„ Northorn of France. D 0.201. She Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B.6r, Xrns.SIIP NorwegiAnTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati.. T:ovai Danish IRoyalSwadish D. Obligations Sambre and Mcuso Do. 54 p. cent Pref. Sciude, guar. 5 p. c Do Routhern of Franca St. , kudrew'e an•l Queboc (A) West F, antlers ..... Da F k ecr c. Fret . & N. W. (If gram-, West. of Switzerland Wiesbadon Zealand ... IVP-R A ^.sLralaala Bank of London c l l. •;1.k.k1..0. C tirithl N. American (Martel. 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Business done this day 14 14 all all all an THE SU N, LONDON. MONDAY EVENING MARCH 3 !956. ; ;!'4 - b".B : . . ..A..z.'.1,.',1.1 Fo i•; • • . THE MAGAZINES. ever done, step by step, across the broad pains f Eu rope, till from their last refuge, that rock of Vie Atlai - N tic to which they have clung lovingly, trustingly, at last despairingly, during two thousand years, the old race must be rent and severed to make room fur their tri, m phant succ, - isAor, the conquering Scythian. Yet, though kings, pi ince, and' races perish, though a nation may be obliterated, still the singular and beautiful literature of that ancient people, the literature of two thousand years ago, will live for ever in Ireland, to interest and instruct the poet, the historian, and the antiquary—the records of a people more ancient than the pyramids." F' a I.; 11.a.u,wmtk, Cumin Saturday 111111113 ms this day . Blackwood.—Although Maga still pursues her course without the attraction of a serial story, in pages hitherto glorified by talcs like Margaret Oliphant's "Zaidee," or Bulwer Lytton's tons," or Thomas Barharn's "Cousin Nicholas," or Samuel Warren's " Ten Thousand a Year"—she is yet, to the very last, wonderfully alluring, lively, and vigorous. Look at one criticism alone in the present number, as affording conclusive testimony of this. Read it, chuckle over it, rub your hands with very glee as you turn the leaves—and then close it, when read, without a hearty roar of laughter. We defy you—that is supposing you to have a genuine appreciation of the ridiculous. It is a paper not to be perused with a grave eye, or a stirless lip—but to be exulted over as a bit of rare fun. Another flourish of the crutch of King Christopher ! More magical than the wand of harlequin; and more formidable than the most gnarled and knotty shillelah twirled between a thumb and forefinger on the green of Donnybrook ! "Biography gone Mad"—to wit, the biographies recently published at New York, of two American journalists, Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, and James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Mr. Parton, the biographer of the former person, has nomercyfrom the humorous reviewer in Blackwood. Speaking of the hero of his big volume, Parton says—absurdly enough—" If Horace Greeley were a flower, botanists would call him single and ex amine him with interest," adding, "He is what Germans sometimes style ' a nature.'" [Mr. Parton has said, by the way, elsewhere, of his hero—" he is a born legislator."] To which sub joins the very explicit and outspoken critic in Maga —" And if J. P. also were a flower, botanists would inevitably pronounce him a tulip.' He is what in Scotland we sometimes call a natural'— otherwise known as a baffling ;' or, in vernacular English, a born fool !'" As for James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, more than sus pected to be the " Mr. So and So" of American Notes—of whom quoth Ho is a public nuisance, is he not? Yes, sir. A convicted liar? Yes, sir. He has b.en kicked and cuffed, and caned? Yes, sir. And lie is utterly dishonourable, debased, and profligate ? Yes, sir. In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit? Well, sir, he is a smart man !" As for James Gordon Bennett, of whom O'Connell said once on a public plat form " He is one of the conductors of cne of the vilest Gazettes ever published by in• famous publishers !" As for him what does the Blackwood Reviewer not say ? h.e calls him plainly and point blank, just to begin with—" the Jack Ketch of Editors." He calls him "redoubt able and happily unparalleled." He speaks of him as " a notorious blackguard." He speaks of his "Memoirs" as forming a sort of companion work to the Netvgate Calendar, or to Defoe's " Autobio graphy of an Unfortunate Female." He dilates in uttermost scorn upon his "third-rate mediocrity of thought and style," upon his "audacious schem ing," his "impenetrability to shame," and his " invincible enduranc3 of chastisement." He speaks of one of his blasphemous allusions as— " worthy of a Couthon or a Marat"—likens him to a vampire and a cobra-de-capella—talks in fine of his successes as the results of the union of " the minimum of literary ability, and the maximum of moral worthlessness." Never, in all his many cow-hidings, never, we undertake to say in all his fleshly experiences of the welts and weals of a rattan or the swinges and thuds of a horse whip—never before has James Gordon Bennett been subjected to so tremendous a castigation .as this in Blackwood. After it, in more senses than one, we guess—Mr. Bennett will feel himself " a smart man" and no mistake ! It is morally, to all intents and purposes, like having his nose slit, and his ears cropped, and his cheeks and forehead branded, and riding through Coventry on the back of a jackass with his face turned tailwards ! Enough of this, however—Paugh ! The subjecttreated of is in itself sufficiently revolting. And gladly do we turn from it to the sweetening influence of a most genial and in every way charming notice of " Syd ney Smith"—the Jove of Pallas Athenw, otherwise the originator and first editor of the Edinburgh Review—earliest and greatest Of all the Quarterlies ! The tribute offered to the shade of Sydney by Blackwood is, from beginning to end, thoroughly delightful. It will be examined with interest, and with hardly more interest than admiration. " Liddell's History of Rome" is the theme of the opening paper of the March number, and must be regarded as in all respects rather favour alde. " Monteil" is the brief title of the second contribution proving, on inquiry, to be an eulogistic mention of the obscure and laborious life, followed by the posthumous cele brity of poor old Amans Alexis Monteil, the gifted author of the history of the French of Various Conditions. An absurd little treatise on the "Greek Church," its doctrine, ceremonial, and government, is chiefly remarkable for its swarming prejudices, and its abundant evidence of a sort of microscopic narro x-mindedness. An article on " Nicaragua and the Filibusters," and another on " The Scottish Fisheries," the latter suggested apparently by a paper on the same subject in the recently published ninth volume of the En cyclopwdia Britannica, are followed by the kinliy notice cf Sydney Smith, already mentioned. This biographical and critic:ll chapter on the witty canon of St. Paul's and writer of " Peter Plymley's Letters," being succeeded by—a rather unusual circumstance with Maga, as she - herself acknowledges—two articles on one subject, one by an English lawyer, headed " Peerages for Life," the other by a Scotch lawyer, entitled the " Wensleydale Creation." Both earnestly directed. against what Blackwood designates " the unhappy and singularly attempt to destroy the hereditary character of one branch of the Legislature." We look in vain in the present number for what was promised in the last, namely, Tickler's Autobiography. He pledged himself to it in February. But we grieve to observe, in regard to so gentlemanly a dog, that he has not by any means fulfilled' his—bow-wow ! 94 -- 96 94 --- 11 - 13 41 ... 4i Colburn's United Service opens with a sketch of the career of the late Prince Paskiewitch, written in a spirit of generous appreciation. The "Lull in the Storm" of war is taken advantage of by " Port lire " to look about and see what has been done and remains to be done. The result is encouraging, the Allies on his showing having little to fear and everything to hope from a vigorous and judicious prosecution of the war. Their tactics in under taking the reduction of Sebastopol are in his opinion fully justified by the results. "In fighting Rus sia," he asserts, "you cannot go in and win. Try it and you're done, as Charles and Napoleon were. No. The only way of flooring Russia is to attack her at her extremities." How lucky, if this be true, that we blundered into that way ! " Leaves from Western Africa" are still attractive, singly and by their variety. "A. Visit to Scott Russell's Dockyard," though highly seasoned with admira tion, does ne more than justice to that mammoth establishment, in which alone that forthcoming prodigy of shipbuilding, the Great Eastern, iron steamer (25,000 tons burden !) could have been constructed. " The prevailing impression'," it is truly remarked, " which the visitor receives and retainQ, in despite of others no less significant, is that of vastness. Bulk, size, bigness is . the uncon trollable feeling which weighs upon the spectator." "Gossip about our Ferry," ix other words, " the, narrow sea between England and France," de scribed by Napoleon I. as "the most important ferry in the world," is of national interest, and adds amus ing anecdote to noteworthyhistorical reminiscences. The Irishman who did not know whether he could play the violin or not, because he had never tried, is outdone by a touter who knocks the bargain of a rival the proprietor of a " bran new bye-channel boat " on the head, by turning the newness of his boat into an argument against embarking in her after this fashion—" That's all again her, for she's never been tried, and, in course, its doubtful, quite uncertain, I should say, whether she'll sink or swim." " Good gracious," gasps the green horn, " what an escape. Of course, it is. I'll have no experiments tried on me." " Sketches of Mercenaries" are continued—" Scots in French Service" being the subject of the sketch for Mar Ch. " The War in the Peloponnesus in 1820," a graphic and stirring narrative throughout, is con eluded in the present number. The editor, in his Portfolio, directs a rattling fusillade against Lord Panmure, for endeavouring to tarnish the prestige of the illustrious Order of the Bith, by admitting into its ranks men who have no pretensions to such a distinction, such as Benjamin Hawes, the Twit dam soap-boiler at Lambeth, and passing over others such as General Freeth, whose claims are indisput able. Knowing what we know, this is a little amusing. Less exceptional is his recommendation. of Commissary-General Filder to an equal share of attention with the other C.B.'s, or Crimean blunderers. One passage from the Portfolio ought not to he omitted. "It has already transpired that Lord Hardinge is not so black as he is painted, and the public may one day learn with surprise how much it owes to his zeal, his energy, and his untir ing devotion." Hibernian decidedly. 103 - 105 13 - 236 - 246 1.076 - 1126 2i - `2i 92 - "f 4 P - iP 54 - f 6 132 -- 131 - S 34 - 83 31 --2 :834 The New Monthly.—The New Monthly opens with a paper on the much-disputed Mosquito Ter ritory, which has lately excited so much attention. According to the description given by Mr. Bard, an American visitor to the Mosquito shore, it is scarcely deserving of the jealousy and vexation it has occasioned. It is true that the soil will pro duce rice, cotton, coffee, sugar, and indigo, but as no European settlement can ever prosper on ac count of its unhealthiness, these advantages are comparatively useless. The English, French, and Germans have successively founded colonies, but a few years generally extirpates all the inhabitanTs. Some of the extracts from Mr. Bard's travels fur nish' us with interestin f details on this suhject. "The Political Future of England" is a criticism eui the recent French work of that title, and gives a modente share of praise to M. de Montaleni bert's production. It is followed by an article on " The Siege of Kars," founded on the narrative of Dr. Sandwith. No additional details can add to the sympathy and indignation 'which the recital of the sufferings of those deerted heroes has already excited, but, if further confirmation were needed, the testimony of Dr. Sandwith affords a mournful corroboration. The author of "The Unholy Wish" furnishes us with a continuation of the story of Adela Chenevix under the title of "The Merchant and his Wife." It is written with his usual skill in tracing character and depicting do mestic details, and seems to promise a conclu-ion of properly melodramatic interest. The " lilas trations of the Manners and Customs of tLe Eighteenth Century " terminate in this number, awl gives some curious details on the pe culiarities of style and orthography then in use. The writer of these papers scarcely does justice to his labours, in his final remarks, for if his'' illustrations" have given us nothing new in the way of historical instruction he has certainly collected a large assortment of miscellaneous and entertaining information. The history of Stoke Dotterel], it appears, is not yet concluded, nor is. it likely to end, as something strange remains to ho told in the story of its hero. The de s Tiption of a pilgrimage to the French Palaces, by Floren tia, is agreeably written, and promises to be highly beneficial to i n tendi ug travellers, as the fair voyager proposes faithfully to record all that she meets with on her way. She complains of the inaccuracy with which travellers' tales are generally told, and sets out on her narrative by a too faithful picture of the miseries of a stormy passage 'across the Channel. The present pilgrimage only extends to the Tuileries, respecting which there is so much to be said that we cannot wonder that the traveller loves to linger in recollections of Mario Antoinette and the First Napoleon. " Literary Leaflets," by Sir Nathaniel, has this month a criticism of liohn's new edition of the works of Addison. The first part of an amusing story is translated from the Dahish by Mrs. Bush by, and entitled " Cousin Carl." We fear the next instalment, however, will bring its adventurous hero into disgrace and difficulty. We must not omit to mention an ar ticle on the Danes and Swedes, which gives a full account of their land and sea forces. Dublin, University.—This number presents va rious sketches of an entertaining nature. The first paper concludes the account of "Potemkin, the Crimea," &c., which was commenced last mouth. It imparts information regarding Russia iu the last century likely to meet with attention. The amus• ing story of "Love in Curl Papers" is continued. It becomes more intricate in this portion, as the scene of action is removed to Munich, and the calm serenity of the village is alundoned for the intrigues of the city. " The Amber Mouthpiece" is a chro nicle of an adventure in Constantinople, which is very interesting. The hero of the tale, in wishing to be too clever, nearly lost his life, and met with many misfortunes. By presence of mind, however, he contrived to elude his enemies, and to bring the cheats and impostors he met with before jus tice the next day. He was afterwards held up as an example to others, as sustaining the rights of travellers in distress. "The Cavalier and the Puritan" is a singular tale, not devoid of interest, but possessing some painful features. " The Dra matic Writers of Ireland" is concluded this month. It has consisted of eleven numbers, and "has em braced eighty-seven names—a goodly number, and an illustrious brotherhood." It is observed that some may have been omitted through ignorance or inadvertence, but if so the error shall be rectified when made known. A valuable summary has been presented from time to time to those desirous of obtaining an account of the dramas of Ireland, as they have thus had brought under itrmediate no tice what is difficult at all times to discover. " A. Handful of Jacobite Songs" contains some spirited pieces. The most deserving of notice is entitled " The White Rose over the Water." The article " Novels and Novelists" continues the descriptions commenced in a former portion. Some of the anecdotes mentioned are very curious. " Mar ryat's Sea Stories" form the subject of a paper. It is said that "Peter Simple " was the work that made Marryat famous. It was the most successful naval fiction published in England. Some remarks are made on Mr. qrilbert's work, " History of the City of Dublin." In the course of the'article a description is given of the views and purposes of the author. In tracing the idiosyncrasy of the in habitants he goes back to a period of remote anti quity. It is observed in the concluding passage that the ancient race is fast disappearing from Ire land, from famine and pestilence, but above all from the numerous emigrations. "From the Atlantic to the Pacific, where the rocky mountains bar like a portal the land of gold—through the islands of the Southern Ocean to the great desolate world of Australia, seeking as it were the last home of their fathers, and doomed to make the circuit of the earth—still onward flows the tide of human life—that inexhaustible race who have cleared the forests of Canada, who have built cities and made all the railroads of the state, who have given thousands to the red plains of the Crimea, who have overcome California and peopled Australia—the race whose 'destiny has made then& the instruments of all civilisation though they have never reaped its benefits. "No colonies recross the Atlantic. Immutable as the path of the planet is the destined cycle of human progression, never ending, never ceasing, until perhaps the ancient race, after its weary wanderings, will arrive once more at 'the partings of the ways' in the far eastern land of Paradise and the dispersion. It is but a sombre vaticination, yet it is evident that from Ireland the old people will soon pass away. The old language will be come a tradition. The Scythian races, with their free spirit, and purer faith, will pour in to repeople the de solate lands, and to build up the waste. plains ; and the ancient children of the south, of Tyre, of Carthage, of the Telco of the Sea, moat leo before thew, aa they have Tait's Edinlntrgh.—An article on the " Peace Conferences" leads the way. The writer enters on a consideration of the proposed terms of peace, and points out the dangers to be obviated by the exercise of due precaution on our pait. What hope ho entertains on this head may be gathered from the remark—" The peace, if it be concluded, is a truce of years, five or ten." " Goethe : His Life and Character," are reviewed iu a readable paper. " Grace Dorrien," a tale, is continued, and gives promise of greater interest. A second notice of Alexandre Dumas is far from flattering to " the improvisatore of the age," as he de lights to be considered ; his style is described as " loose and verbose," his characters "undefined,' his philosophy of life "shallow," his sentiment " mere frail," his picturess "lacking consistency," his creed "too daringly impious to contemplate calmly," and the morality of his writings in accord with his professions. "Tangled Talk," by the author of " Reading Raids," is sufficiently enter taining to be Worth unravelling. Mortimer Collins contributes " Lily," an amusing legend of Guern sey, done into Ingolsby verse. " M'Neil and Tulloch's Crimean Report" is reviewed with con siderable candour and judgment. One fact is new to us—viz., the existence of a law-suit between Government and Sir Harry Smith, involving the payment of a large sum of money on account of the issue of camp stores during the Kafir war. Among the remaining contents the principal is a paper on " Commercial Felonies," in which the public are read some useful lessons. Bentley's Miscellany.—The American question seems likely to occupy as large a share of the magazine articles as the Turkish question did some months ago. Instead of epitomes of. Russian history, accounts of the Tartar and Cossack races, sketches of Circassian life, and pictures of Constantinople, we are now likely to hear a little too much of Nicaragua, and its dependencies, the Mosquito country, and similar imposing titles. The present number of Bentley furnishes us with two papers on this topic, entitled, " The Differences with the United Stites," and, "Central America." It does not, however, desert old friends entirely, for a little further on we meet with an article headed, " A Week in Constantinople." The editor's story of " The Spendthrift" is continued, and the present instalment brings the climax of the masked ball adventures. 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Dariingt Do 4tWee tn xll 411 10. i 100 Do.. 10(t all lt , t • 11(X1 110 [lnc 'l.OO Lot 89i U but we fear it is somewhat improbable. "An Essay on Robert Bell's Edition of Chaucer" levee s foil homage to the faller of English poetry. T.lO s ory of'' Going to the Shows" presents an iinl r s ve warning against the clangers of over suspicion. Whether or not it is founded on truth, as it im plies, the circumstances though painful are ric t impro4iable, and servo to show the delusions some times encouraged by circumstantial evidence. The tale is ingeniously told,' as the reader is left in doubt until near the conclusion as to the innocence or guilt of the suspected party. " The Second Paper on BeAumarchais" concludes the history of his life and times. " Monkshood's New Book Notes" take a review of Dean Milman's " History of Latin Christianity," and drAws from that work a series of historical portraits, beginning with Hildebrand and - ending with Rienzi. our door till I was much more hot and tired than my little playfellow." A pictUre net without its charm, we take it, for those who care to note the man of genius not merely in his hours of relaxa tion, but at moments when those hours era gilded with the sunshine of natural affection. Times like those in regard to which Luttrell once uttered so comically, in his ludicrous way, that deliciously.. absurd lamentation—" How often in life we should Lice to arrest our beaux momens ; should be so obliged to the five minutes if they would only stop ten 1" Nearly 30 years had to roll on, hoWever, from the time when Turn Moore sat under tho Du blin tea-table with the barrel-organ in his lap, be fore he tumbled in the hay with little Barbara in front of •that charming poet's-home of Mayfield Cottage.' Many parts, too, had he to play in the interim; during his gay, toilsome progress up from obscurity to renowi , many motley .parts—not for gettiug even that of harlequin In striving to prepare himself for which impersonation he tells us he succeeded, at last, "by constant practice over the rail of a' tent bed," in performin e. moat successfully "the head foremost leap" of the hero of pantomime. A little later (1802) and the spangled skin of harlequin cast long ago likeot glittering slough in the dear old. schooldays, no longer seems to pozosess any paramount attractioh as a holiday disguise for the light-hearted and light-heeled little Patlander. For we find him escorting a fair companion as Wowski, in the low comedy part of Trudge to a merry dance in Lou don at . the Union Masquerade. A season after (1803) and we hear of his going as Lingo to a fete given by one of the West-End Clubs, and better still, as George Cruikshank would have it, " figur ing away" at a Mrs. Orby Hunter's [we had almost said at a Mrs. Leo Hunter's] in the very apt cha racter of "A Little Irish boy just come to Lon don." In recording which last impersonation, says Moore in a letter to his mother written im mediately afterwards (vol. i., p. 126), "I had ' a vast deal of fon I", As no, doubt he had. A little Irish boy just come to London—he was in malty no longer: for in 1803 he was getting well into his fifth season. of Belgrayian frolic. The spring of 1799 having witnessed .his literal appearance "in, that character when he had-cone up to town, seek ing his fortune, with a few odd guineas sewed lip, by his provident mother, (i. 72) in the - waistband of his pantaloons ! Already he had then passed through a sort of irregular literary pupilage 'at home, scrawling poetical inscriptions of his own composition over the .door, and in all sorts of strange nooks and corners in his-private,little snug gery at his father's, doing all this he tells us naively (i. 27) "in the manner, as he flattered himself of Shonstone at the Leasowes." Besideiewhiohdie had boldly tried his 'prentice hand as another Thomas the Rhymer, in such aVartburlesque-effu sions as an "Ode upon Nothing, _ with Notes by Trismegistus Rustifustius Winning when he was only sixteen (1795), in return fora copy 'of original verses "all out of his own`lo ad"— wbat he mentions briefly (i. 33) as "the fist gala I ever made by that pen which, such as it is, has been my sole support ever since"—a prize awar iPd by a Board consisting of the Provost and Set.ior Fellows of Trinity, in the shape of a very hand somely bound copy of the "Travels cf Anachart-is." At the outset, notwithstanding his home-triumphs and college-successes, he appears, nevertheless, to have had no notion whatever how portent his grey goose-quill would prove in transaiut'ns reams of paper and gallons of ink into geld after a securer fashion than that of the old alchemist ; : for we read in a letter of his, addressed to his father at the close of the century, that ho meditateN publishing a few of his " trifling poems," adding "it is more through a wish to get rid of them than with any hopes of emolument." -Perhaps his views in this respect may have: . become somewhat modified a little while afterwards when. he had oc - asim to re joice his mother's heart by the gool tidings that he expected to clear one hundred guineas by Anacreon ! However this may be, " clear" ihen he did—and more : the open sesame was won to the treasures rewarding the fortunate adventurer, and not only to the base metals to Le got out of popular books as well as out of popular auythings, but into the exclusive circles of fashien, the via lactea of the gay world down which float only the creme de la creme I . n:omucla that the young Irelander who, at eleven years of age, was screech jug from a window over his father's Flop as Grat tan and Fitzgerald were carried by in triumph on their joint election fur the city of Dublin—[Moore, rendering himself, he tells us (i. 13, nate), "so conspicuous by the enthusiasm with which I waved a large branch of laurel, that I either caught: or fancied I caught the particular notice of Grattan, and was, of course, prodigiously proud in cense quencel—insolutich, we say, was the young Iribh man of letters successful in gaining admission to the higher circles of the metropolis, that ho who at thirteen was proud of being taken fora few ni6iutes on the knee of Nipper Tandy, at twenty-one Was basking in the smile—was actually living and breathing in the sublime pressure of his Royal itiness,Gao -ge, Prince e.f Wales. Yes—positively enjoying the civilities, almost the familiarities of— Fum the Fourth ! Wonderful privilege ! Listen to the audible gusto with which Moore tells the blissful tale of their introduction. He is writing to his mother. The letter is dated August 4, 1800: —" Yesterday," he says, " I was introduced to his Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales. He is beyond doubt a man of very fascinating manners. When I was presented to him, he said he vas very happy to know a man of my abilities [the italics are Moore's own] ; and when I thanked him for the honour he did me in permitting the dedication of Auacreon, he stopped me and said, the honour was entirely his iu being allowed to put his name to a work of such merit." [What is it the Scotch say ? " Ciaw me, claw thee !"] '" Ho then said that he hoped, when he returned to town in the winter, are should have many opportunities of enjoying . each other's society," aro., Moore adding, as it, wore with a smack of the lips, while he laments that the am brosial interview cost him a new coat—" Is not all this very fine ?" Eleven years after lie is still in the blissful illusion—still hugging himself in the luxury of being countenanced by 11.R.H., writing to his mother in a letter dated Friday, June 21, 1811, " The Prince spoke to me, as lienlways does, with the cordial familiarity of an old ac quaintance." Ah ! poor human poet—you were under the glamour then of a Princely eye, and had not an inkling of anything at all like vaticination. No lyrical cry came from your heart then like that articulated only the other clay, in burning words, by our own manly-hearted, and yet no less womanly-hearted, 'Charles Mackay—, LITE RATURE. THOMAS MOORE. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Right 11m. Lord John Russell, M.P. Vols. I. to VI. Longman and Company. (SECOND NOTICE.) It has already been remarked by us, that these singularly readable volumes are distinguished more especially by the twofold charm resulting from the union in their pages of sprightly anecdotes, and of frequent allusions to the remarkable individuals encountered by Moore; during his pleasant journey through life, and here commemorated b 3 him with a keen sense of their peculiar and personal (fre quently, too, as it happens, of their more odd and whimsical) characteristics. An easy but epigram matic sentence, sometimes a mere passing phrase, or casual expression, , conjures up before us the living and breathing ens of one or ether of the Diarist's immediate contemporaries. Sketches, they all of them are, " touched in" with the finest and faintest strokes of the pencil possible for the indication of the merest outline, but touched in always with a master hand—as iu those all but miraculous etchings of Moritz Retsch, in which the veriest point of the artistic needle indicates by the thinnest line imaginable the form designed by the magical and creative fancy of the draughtsman, and yet does this so deftly, so wondrously, so all sufficiently, that by a hint, as it were, every nerve, every vein, every muscle, seems to be minutely and individually defined. As with the wizsrd graver of Retsch, so with the more-than-Minasi like quill of Moore. Scattering down the scrawled notes up his journal, day by day, hotly, as the incidents occurred, •as the persons were seen, as the words were spoken or listened to, while everything was yet warm in his me mory—the poet-wit has perpetuated for us what must otherwise have died rapidly out of the general remembrance. An ample banquet of such memories, moreover, the book affords from first to last—almost from the date of Thomas Moore's birth, on the 28th of May, 1779, in No. 12, Ann gier-street, at the corner of Little Longford-street, in the city of,Dublin almost to the date of his death, on the 26th of February, 1852, at Sleperton Cottage, near Devizes, in Wiltshire. A. span of nearly seventy-three years, within which Moore tasted so many sweets and some bitterness—his pathway studded here and there with a thorn or two, but carpeted for the most part with flowers, blooming and abundant. As a social favourite Moore was for many seasons the spoilt darling of London—of what Fanny Barney, according to the vocabulary of her time, was so fond of calling the ton—what Jeames, of Berkley-square, would term the elite—the halcyon region' of fashion down which saunters for ever and ever in dwindling per spective, epoch after epoch the type of each— the blood, the buck, the dandy, and the swell ! Fascinated by his wit, his grace, his melodious and exquisite sensibility, every bewitching attribute of his genius, people forgot, somehow, that old John Moore kept a little wine store once upon a time, somewhere in the Irish capital—they lost all recol lection, apparently, that Tom Moore himself was one of those unfortunate persons who happen to have no great-grandfather ! They only remembered Anacreon first of all, and then the Melodies, and then "Laths Rookli," and heard all the while the " voice of the charmer" singing as he alone could sing his own songs of the heart, iu his own music, to his own accompaniment. The glamour of his singing these songs of his, was a thing once heard never in a long life-time to he forgotten—any more than the weird passion of Kean as Othello—or the ravishing- anguish of Malibran as Arnina—or the gay laugh of Mrs. Jordan—or the violin, half divine, half diabolical, of the wondrous Paganini. Those who can call but one melody of his to their recollection, as they have heard it sung by him, " avec les larmes clans la voix," can believe in the sincerity of the regret expressed by Monk Lewis (vol. i, p. 113), who " was in the greatest agonies' the other night .at Lady Done gal's," at having arrived too late—" 'Pon his honour, he had come for the express purpose of hearing me !" livery one, too, with the like pre cious memory of "sweet sounds, that gave delight and Ivirt not," will have n.o marvel when they read (vol. iii., p. 100), under date, 7th to 10th Niarch, 1820—" Flahault sung, and so did I ; very nervous about it. If I hal given way, should have burst out a-crying; .'as I reinetner doing many years ago at a large party at Lady nothei's. No ono believes how much I ain affected in singing, partly from being touched myself, and partly from an anxiety to touch others." The duplex clue, this, to all his successes ! His earnestness in what he did, and his almost morbid yearning for admiration. How much lie did well ! And in the doing of it what overflowing admiration he gained —enough—and to spare ! For all which ho had precisely the very qualities that were requisite. As his noble editor has said so justly—" His was a delightful fancy, not a sublime imagination ; a tender and touching foelin4, not a rending and overwhelming passion." Hence his celebrity sur vives, hardly so much in his gorgeous eastern romance of " Lana Rookb," a: in his more brief and homely songs of love and sorrow, his national Irish Melodies. A fortunate circumstance, the very brevity of them, in an age when, as Lord Jeffrey has oddly observed, "men would aslittle think ofsitting down to a whole epic as to a whole ox." Moore himself had an accurate sense of the secret of his powers, the extent of his capacities, of the validit y of his claims upon the notice of posterity. "My poetry, such as it is," he speaks of (vol. i., p. 17) as "having sprung out of my deep feeling for music." And later on (vol. i,, p. 60) he talks of "the bursting out of my latent talent for music," as " in reality the source of my poetic talent, since it was merely," he adds, " the effort to translate into words the different feelings and passions which melody seemed to me, to express." A revelation one might almost fecognise as quaintly prefigured in that curious little incident of his childhood, when at a certain large tea-party, with his hostess alone in the secret, he "remained for hours con cealed under the table, having a small barrel organ in his lap, and watching anxiously the moment when he was to burst upon their ears with music from—they knew not where Tiiis was in the days when the little fellow excited the wonder of his acquaintance by his smallness and precocity— when one Captain Mahoney [the wag !] used to say laughingly to Moore's mother, that lie was sure Tom had passed all his nights with the "little people," meaning the ,fairies, and to banter Tom himself to his great amusement at stray breakfast times with such posers as—" Well; Tom, what news from your friends on the hills ? It was a fine moonlight night, and I know you were among them." Those were the merry play-days when little Tom (after the fashion of big old Sam of Lich field in his childhood) was borne on the shoulders of his boy-companions to the ruins of Dun-Drum Castle, and there crowned on its summit by the hands of some little girl of the party I No wonder the good Irish folk about him marvelled at the 'wis dom stored up in that small frame, looking it did, particularly inflintine for its age—till some cross-grained old Hibernian Cor nelia would cry out with a comioal sort of indignant asperity,l " Oh, he's an old little crab, lie ean b 't . be less than eleven or twelve years eemaeninLin some seven or eight. W . lieee o t f o a . a ge g " ent i l . next her responded, " T , 1101) madam, if that be th g e case, he must have been four yeare_old before be forthwith to was • bore—which reply, reported Tom's mother, "won her warm heart towards that gentleman for ever after," says that son later on in the days of his fame—still Tom Moore even then to the wide world, as he was from the first to the last iu his own loving household. Pant even, he tells us, vide " Letter" No. 261, Tom even to his little daughter Barbara—where he writes comi cally to his " dearest mother"—" Barbara calls me Torn, and I try in vain to break her off it, because she hears her mother call me so." The man was laving and beloved throughout ; there was some thing kindly, human, gentle, genial, be sure of that, in that large heart, yearning and yearning, aver and over, with a hunger so insatiable for everybody's admiration. Watch him into the meadows with the same little child—the little Bar bara he was before long to bury with some bitter tears in the suburban churchyard that gave shelter only the other day to the poor old wearied bones of the nouogenarian Rogers—it is like a peep into Burke's study, with the memorable glimpse of the philosophic statesman lying on the carpe t with the I . Tan EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY.—Captain . Wynn - toys and the "one child" he too was to rear so has just made his report to the Government as, to the tenderly, only to lose, in his turn, so prematurely state of this railway between Norwich, Irsraiouth,..end and with such oignant anguish ! Te - clah say s ,, I Lowestoft., From the report it appears that many, of Moore in " Letter ' No. 248, dated fromA a P lala the bridges on the line wyeinan:a4yensed state of deopy i Cottag a e, " to-day "(a Monday, in 1813 ) "little an d the re p airs which areleing mad; istetiliieeleitll4 l 4 . Barbar and I rolled about in the hay-field before to make the_ etiuctures temporarily We.. " Stand up, mall ! stand ! God's over all. Why do you cringe to me, Stiny do you bend the knee, And creep, and fawn, and crawl' Stand up, man ! stand 1" Not a notion had you then how soon 11.R.11. was to dwindle down into Finn the Fourth of your own burlesque christening ; or of how the very year afterwards (March 6, 1812) you yourself were to be sneering at George, Prince of Wales, in a letter to Miss Godfrey, speaking of him as the " precious gentleman," who " once blubbered when he was told that Brummel did not like the cut of his coat!" Alt, well—the days of enlightenment were to come soon enough. Let us leave the poor bright-eyed young Irish poet for a while contentedly in tho first flush of big entrance into the lof tier re g ions of fashion—when he could find c onsolation oven for an inopportune addition to his tailor's bill in the courtly palavering of a " royal snob"— before he was fairly running a muck at the behest of my Lord Moira, after what he himself ultimately eon _ fessed to be the ,‘ will o' the wisp" of his life, a s h am p a tronage, leading not by a hair's breadth to the smallest modicum of advancement. (To be continued.) TIM .PEACE CONFERENCES. Le Nord of Brussels publishes the following : '' On the 25th of Feb. an armistice of five weeks was i'ecided upon in the first Conference, after a general ex amina.to sof the principal questions to be solved. They were all briefly touched upon to ascertain whether they contaioLd any serious difficulties of a nature to impede the couroe of the negotiations. It was thus that they found themselves agreed on the first four propositions. When the question of the rectification of the frontiers on th side of,Bessarabia was mooted by Count Buol, Count Orlyff observed that it was impossible to carry out the near frontier they wished to establish between the sea a-id the mountains, because there are no mountains Oa that side, but only plain& = "A - ttvr words were n'f4o said re4pecting the fifth pre position, without any dissent arising of a nature to cause anxii ty. "A committee, consisting of the French, English, aid Austrian Plenipotentiaries, is appointed to make a draught of the protocol, and to communicate the first bases of its task. "There is every reason to believe that the negotia tions will proceed even mere rapidly than was expected; the peace preliminaries might be signed by the end of the week. "During the three hours and a half which this first meeting of the Conference lasted, everything paesee ever calmly and courteously. 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