The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. rITTY Two o'CLOO The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed very firmly at previous prices. The sales consisted of 8,000 bales, comprising 1,000 for ex port and 1,000 on speculation, including 800 Per nam and Maranbam bid. to 6P., GO Bahia, 6d., 100 Egyptian 51d. to 9d., and 700 Surats 32d. to s d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was buoy ant at a considerable advance. The Belgian Government have published a state ment of the operations relative to the amortisation of the National Debt from the Ist July to the 31st December, 1855. During that period the nominal capital raised on loan was 2,489,000 francs, and the receipts at the public treasury 2,193,556 francs. The total amount effected up to this date is 4 4,833,451 francs. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has intimated that in conformity with the treaty between Belgium and the Low Countries, the duty on coffee crossing the frontiers will hence forth be reduced, the particulars to appear at an early day. Accounts from Spain announce that the Minis ter of Finance has resolved to withdraw his pro tected measure for altering the import duties, and to establish an import upon all spirituous liquors, so as to raise an equal amount of revenue to that Which was contemplated by increasing the duty on Imports. The sale of the Government domains con tunes most satisfactory, and the total amount now disposed of bypublic auction hasreached77,ll9,9l9 reals. The quit rents have also increased to the aura of 23,755,311 reals, and the number of indivi duals who have settled this sum are upwards of 6 ,000. Letters from Berlin state that an increased busi ness had been done in wool since the commence taent of the year. Although the quantity exported during the past 12 months was smaller than usual the stocks were not much larger than in farmer Yearn, and if extensive arrivals from Russia had not t aken place a scarcity would have been experienced. It Was thought that an active demand for France W ould arise owing to the reduction of the duty on Wool, and enhanced rates were expected to be realised. The Shalimar, Australian Mail Packet, has ar rived at Liverpool with dates to the 14th Novem ber from Melbourne. She brings gold on freight t ° the value of 320,0001. The mail bag has not been delivered yet, but is expected in the course of the day. The corn trade is generally very dull, and prices t end downwards. The market for English Securities is very dull, and the quotations have been almost stationary. As the account day is near at hand the dealers are bakin g the usual arrangements, and the change made "carrying over" is again heavy—viz. to a Per cent. Money continues in active demand, and the st ringency recently experienced is increased by the la rge amount of mercantile bills that has to be pro '(lud for to-day, this being the " fourth " of the month. Consols have been 901 a- all the morning fo r money and the 7th inst., while for March the quotations are 91 to 911. The New 3 per Cents. 41. e 91i and the Reduced 9g to 91i. Bank tech is 2111 to 213. Exchequer Bills are 10s. to 68 • discount, and India Bonds 9s. to Gs. discount. Some of the principal Foreign Securities are ' h eavy. Danish 3 per Cents. are 84. Grenada Active, 291 ; ditto, Deferred, 71, and Mexican 1 2 % I. Peruvian Active Bonds are A lower, b eing 801, and the Threes are weaker, viz., 55 1. Sardini a n have been at 891 and 90. I urkish 6 per Cents. 92i for money, and 93g for account, and th e 4 per Cents. are 100; to 101 k. Spanish 3 per Cents. rule at 42±, the New Deferred at 231 to 24, and the Passive at GI. Dutch 21 per Cents. brought The following are the nominal prices of Foreign stoc ks;--Grenada 4 Deferred Bonds, 6171; Mexican, ; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents.,lo3 106 ; ditto 4-i per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 3 Per Cents., 421 ; ditto Deferred, 23? 4 ; ditto C ertificates, 6 ; ditto Passive, 4:i 51. Railway Shares are also at rather lower prices, and the decline in several instances is ss. per share, but the dealings are limited. The Foreign lines are firm. Paris and Lyons have risen 15s. Great Western of Canada are lower. A fair business is doing in Miscellaneous Shares labout previous prices. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON CLOCK. f - pro,: th, iti-rn , , done. tank Stock 3 i , Lr ~ .A•b v . RedEced 'krinnitia, 3 Per Cent. Consols 4.innitie, 904 - 11 , , . , n „ . •' .-. ner Cent. Annnities• ....... ...... , ... 013 - ii 3 i"leW 2.1, per Cent. Annuities 74 ' On g Annuities, expire sth Tan. 1860 .. 31 7-16 Ditto 30 Y ear s, expire sth April, 1885 l6 1-16 3 ' India Stock ion' Bonds, I:1000 Ditto under 1.-:1.000 . o,nois ' ?or Account EKehequer iiillA, '3‘. 13000 . .. . , Rtuall . - . PRICE OF FOREIGN / 1 7NDS AT ONE O'CL( V K. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 B4 Grenada New Active, 11 per Cent. bitto Deferred 7l 4 " ica , 3 per Cent. .... ... ........ Peruvian Bonds, 4,1 per Cont. Ditto Account , Ditto 3 per Cent — Ditto Account wrdinian Bon As, 5 per Cent. Bpanist. Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto F e w Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto Passive Turkic!' Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto Small Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lolli 100 k Ditto Account lOl .i 1 nividends on the above payable fa Lon to. Dutch Exeltne, 21 per Ceut., 12 Gull 64. D Equador Dollar Bondi TWO O'CLuGli. 90i 91i g C msols Ditto, March LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. 4.—Wind this day at noon, S. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 3.—Wind E.—Arrived —Neptunus, from Shields for Constantinople, leaky, and with loss of bowsprit and cut water, from contact off Dungeness with a schooner. Sailed—Hope tpt.), for Deptford ; Amity (Ras. tpt.), Deptford; H.M.S. Ardent, Woolwich. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAM: SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived Alexander, trom Shields; Argo and Bell;ea ther, Sunderland ; Elizabeth, Waterford ; Ann, Cardiff; John and Isabella, Sunderland ; City of Limerick (i.), Dublin ; Le Coq and George, Cherbourg. Sailed—Charlotte, Laura, Philemon, and Paragon, for Exeter ; Tyne (s.), West Indies ; City of Limerick (s.), London. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind S.S.E. Sailed—John Mitchell, for Madras ; Charter Oak, for Savannah ; Lancefield, Lisbon; Colonel John Macrae, Rio Janeira; Industrie, Ootend ; Saline, Ant-verp. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 2. Wind S. Arrived, Feb. I.—Toledo, from Constantinople ; Sarah and Isabella, Syra ; Balden, Alexandria Arrived, Feb. 2.—Providence, from Alexandria. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TV,LEGRAt GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.59 a.m. Wind calm, tide four hours' flood, hazy. Arrived, Feb. 3 —Cord, from St. John's, Newfound land ; Standard, Danzig ; Prince Albert, Guernsey ; De Jonge Dirk, Nieu Diep ; Nicodernus, Worclenburg ; Juno, Nordmaling ; Cyrnsea, Memel. Arrived, 4th.—Egmond Welvaren, from Nieu Diep. DEAL, Monday, 9.45 a.m. . • Wind S.W. ' • light. Passed—Meteor, from London, for the Cape of Good Rope. FPDEATH OF GENERAL SIR WM. GABRIEL DAVY; COLONEL-COMMANDANT 60TH FOOT.—We re gret to record the demise of the above valiant general which took place a few days since, at Tracy Park, his se a t i n Gloucestershire. The gallant deceased was is his 78th year. The English steamer, the City of Manchester, arrived at Marseilles from the Criinea on the Ist inst., having on board 239 military passengers and a large quantity of war materiel. SAILING OF THE CANADA.—The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Long, sailed from Liverpool for Boston on Saturday afternoon, at four o'clock, with the usual mails, a large cargo, and about 90 passengers. The works of the Emperor Napoleon 111. are now Completed. The third awl fourth volumes contain the lesser productions of the Emperor—the speeches, mes- Sages, proclamations, and public letters, Some extracts f rom an unfinished work, "On the Past and Future `doilditions of the Artillery," are also included. SHARE .11 ARKET S. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWATS. Closing Prices Saturday 71 - 16 - 15 i 3 - 9 8 84 86 561 56i ... 4 - 2 7 - 8 13 - 14 9B 9i 26 30 19 - 21 72 74 52 - 54 9i 24 - 25 82 - 86 6r- 7 - 92 78 80 124 1 t'.6 104 - 106 58 73 78 6 7i 6i 7, 81 82 64 Fit 97 - 99 994 100 par, d part / 94 - 95 3 3 2 ••e '.' Id —70 i 10 42 .M •- 10 11 46 - 48 30 31 732 742 7 6A 4i - 1 t 1 4* 48! 19i 22 24 104 106 74 - 76 45 '2 61 t i —62 i 68 70 -5 .id 2d •- pa. 19 - 20 3i 4i rul:g Wo i Wong Ana Eastn. Junct. gtrraing. 'Volvo rb 'Amu . Val}, y Rirhe.llid. Lanes)...* ;_Tacslitre Junet,..... 00. Chink,. 4 Birk. £5O and 1,',25 Do., ...... 0;• - ti: &Tyne origin% £25 (155 d. at £6'. • Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian ,arm. and. Cardigan Chester ut Holyhea.:: Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, es Pas (;(,rn wall Do. A Do. B ;'rio f Dublin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. & Jnc East Auglian iE ez torn Counties ' - • 'Tniou A. Sti De., B. Stove'... . Do., Now A.. East Kent gist Is,.nea.shire .„, Edinburgh & Edinb.s.nd Peebles Edin.Prtti I)nr3. k Clyde .Nn Furness . Do. Extension......., Plasgovv&S W st - 'Groat N. of Scotind !Great Neit her, ' I IDo., A. Stw.- 1l)0., B. Stock . Sth. &West.jr.:. Great Western DL. Stour Val Ra' Gua. Stk Irish Mouth-Easton , ' 1.0.0 vaster & earl Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lsneash.andYork , ; D 3., Wst. aiding n Liv.Crsby. &South r,l London & Blackwail Lout. Bright & S.C,c . Loud. and N. West. Do, Fifths IDO.IO/.13h.. C Do. Eightita London mid S. W-s. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lnanarry& Col °milt• Ludivirr7. Manch.S ,, ef.& Lin , 11,1 Viar n Metropolitan !Midland ! - )e. Birrenf4. &Der • Midi& G. Weet. t T.t I Half Share: , evp3aßtle & Ca - L.IW. Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf Newry & Fnnisliiil Newry Warreupoir. and Rostrevor. '.Norfolk NT orthn.Counties I 'North British Nth 1 - ` ,, v.n Rai'. 4t Dock Stock Do., A Stock B Stock .... Do., i 14 Guarani. N. Eastern—Berw , Do. do. Extension , Dodo. G.N.E. ?arch DO. Leods Do. York North London . &S. Wstrn. , lima : stead, and City Jr... Korth Staffordshir .. North Western , N. & S. West rm.. June Nnneaton, ['luck, , , And Leicester..... Ox, Wore.. ~r, Wolv. 't .rt,ezamith ott sh Co at ml !Scottish Midland Hokrupshire 'Tv i 'qanth Devon So . :lth Eastern youth Walea Yer.sh. ( 1 4 Riv. Pn Do • ' woi T• ;Wok - Stockton Darli Stky!kten iiratiffo Tao.' vale Do. Pref., No. 1, T . • *nos HaV. P.& R. 'Ulverstone & Lauep Heath...... Watert 1. & Kilken -, , ,W , tterforrl&Limer; :West Cornwall... W, et Fyn d of and Crystal Palsete Do. A Do. B iWest Conlon IWimbledn&Croyelon 4 - 6 r ItEIGN, n 7tl 7 8 8k 0 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh.atpar till'64 14. - 1 p 0 10 Ardennes 1 - 1 1 ' Buig an atn. Into, 3l 2/ f‘ 14 Bezi ars to Gra, ss • 2 1 i Flaroda.,4x , aitral Ind , a.Ser.! P 8 all Do. - • Demerara-, ..... ••• 11 il)utcl , Rh,nish $ 1 Eastern of Franc , 3 Do. 'Tow ll - 13. : lEast. l.ndian, g. sp. 21( 224 .- I - I.s. 15 .. 1 154 I , all D0.41p.c.8nd5.,'57 :0 16 'Gee - ong.Melbourne guar. 5 iJer c nt. ..• - I Do., Lon. allot., do. ... - 20 10‘.1.11 , 41;a.;.; • - 10 - 9 10: i 9 Do. 8f) u. Cert. of Doh eL . eon. into Stk. till 61 68 65 Comp. Rp. c., do 83 PS )• • ;4 qt. Central of Fran 5 - s:e 'lt. Indian Parin. ,, - 20 4 26 4 great Luxembour. Constitnterl Share , ' 54 5$ a'l Do. Oblirtation...... 3 - IC 11. Do. re-is. 'orftd. '0 ail gt.Westornolt !au,.. , • a Shams Do. Now 3 - 3 if ., 8$ :-,11 Bds., payable's7, - with option till '55 99 10 00 al: Do. do., '62, p. '56 l2O 125 1 0( . , au Do. do., '76, p. '6O l2O 125 N) all D. do., '73, without option.— ........ le6 10g !,0 all Hamilton ez, Toront 24 - 25 00 Do. 6 per cent. 117 122 /.0 17 Laitt Cond. 20 all Liorre and Turnhout ...c 5 ki! Lueort h rist. sp. c.p pn ?A- 16 Lyons and Gcnovt. 84 .. 91 19 20 14 ',Lyons & orlitern. , r all I Madras, guar. 4 p.c 19 19i 191 20 10 Do New 0., 5 c 20 5 Do. 44 p. c. Eaten $ ;Ai all Maria Antonia P 411 Do. do. New ..... . 2 - 3 .i() all N'amnr b Liege. (wit tntere5t)............. 5 1 6 5 1 . 2 )0 all Do. (ea interf , st)... 51 - 1,6 all Northern of France- 6- 37; 20 all Do.2oi.Slis l2 12.1 ar Do. 20% 3 p. c Bds (i'my.B. Ams.Shs. NormolianTrunkPre 7 - 8 20 all Paris wad Lyons 4B - 48' 48/ 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 .all Paris and Orleans, 4O - 50 10 5 Rome and Frascati - ali t.oval Danish l9 - 20 ali 2i -2. f 2a 4 all Do. Obligations - 10 3a'bra and Memo.,, 9i - 9i 9k 1.0 all p. r!out Pref. .- 10 5 , guar„ sp. c. 1 ••••• 20 all Do. . all Southern of France pet. tO 16 !St. 4ndrew's an Quebec (Al et.. West Flanders 3. -- 4 C a' De 51 oar c. Pr0f... ... 20 lk W. &N. W. of T 7 ranet. 32k - 332, 20 all west. of Switzerland - 6 all Wiesbaden ... 20 all iZeAlancl • . 18k -19 - fOINT-STOI 1 A. astralsterir rank of London .... Rri. Col. Bk.& i 4 n. C. tritish N. American hartd. Bank of Asir Chrtd. Buk. of India, tinstra;ia, & Chin; City ...... Colonial Commercial of ): Fogi..4oot.&kug.Cht. tond. Chan Bk of LonL Stock don DittoA. ria l & t o : r a n : N E I: J . I " w i d e n: l6 . l National Pro.of gug Do. New. ......... ~• National of Irelasri New South Valet, Oriental Bani. of Corporation. ,Provincial of Ireland, New Royal Anstraln.Bkg. ;4014 Imp Co. Royal British Smith Australia Union of A.natrAlis..:: Do. .Tftxv Union o London Business done this day 100 Ith ), 8 100 all 3 WO 10c 100 3. 1. 1 5 5 10 ,f N. 2r, 26 100 1(,0 100 20 100 50 100 100 BLNKS.. 92 94 63 - 65 par -- 1 p 69 : 4 "8 . 1T 17A 2i - I p ar 2P 37 - 39 4") - 41 40 41 S. :•••• _ •.• 39 41 70 71 7?,s Si 28 40 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4 1856. n: ~~, ~" ; ,- 1A MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) THE MAGAZINES. trims instortess itammais• Cempans.! Saturday. this day. all -.. •‘.:dford and London Blehl]loy N. WeA. 100 Mickel:mash. L.&N.W. 94 96 i`'‘) Clydesdale . Caledon 94 98 all Col. Stour Vy. E. Un. & Sod. and H:al. E. C ..... . Ot Lin. z.'.l pc Gt. Nano. all E. Un. H. Sh. E. Count. ... W) Glas. Barr. & Caldoniau. Neils. Direct •.. • 100 Do. New...... Do all Olstr.4Dn.Fr Vrestr — ,„ all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New Railway__ & Berw all Hull & Seiby Y. &N3l. 104 106 all Do. Sharo7. Do 4 all Do. Shares. Do.. ...... all Lon.& Creenw S. Easton 13 —13 i all Do. Preference Do 234 244 .10,) Lon., Til., &S. Pet° &Co llO 115 109 a 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ,„ . WO Do. 6 per ct. Do all Manch. 117. tn, L.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 2i all Middlesbro' & Stckton& Redcar Darlingt. 1 0 0 Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 91 E 3 5} Newmarket Bury E. G.spe En. Coun. p ip all .N.& Est.s p.c. E. Count. 55 57 ali Do. 6 7 , er ct.1)'0..... .... all Do. Fixeds p c Do •.. all Prost. INT., L. &N.W — all Do. 4 tihrs. A Do 0 Roystn.&Hit. OtNorthrt Shef.Roth land Lancash& Gooleg.sp.c. Yorksh. all Shrews.&Her T.Brassey 7>i— 8 S. Staffordsh. M. MC lean 3 -- I WearValloygr Stockt. & i per cent... Darlingt all Do 3l --- 32 ) 100 Wilt , * . GtWestn. 83 • 85 CORN EXCHANGE: Blackwood.—The learned Recorder of Hull is the hero of Maga for February. His earnest and in many respects really masterly oration upon " Labour : Its Rights, Difficulties, Dignity, and *Consolations"—a lecture the dimensions of which to our regret precluded us from transferring it to our own columns from those of our Hull contem- Most of the country markets held on Saturday were very dull for wheat, at drooping prices. There was very little inquiry for barley on former terms. All other kinds of spring corn, including flour, were heavy and drooping. The continental markets continue very dull, and a de dine to some extent has taken place in the general quota tions. - From New York we learn that there was a fair demand for flour on export account. The arrivals of English grain up to our markets last week were very moderate. From abroad we received 17,674 quarters of wheat, 7,291 oats, 5,824 beans, 15 tares, 7,539 linseed, 12,678 rapeseed, 110 sundry seeds, 1,326 sacks and 11,955 barrels of flour. Fresh np to our market to-day, an increased supply of English wheat came to hand, coastwise and by land car riage. The condition of the samples was ranch better than on Monday last. For all kinds wo had an unusually dull trade, and great difficulty was experienced in realising sales even on lower terms. For some time it was difficult to ascertain the decline in value, but most of the factors considered prices fully 4s to 53 per quarter lower than on Monday last. There was a fair show of foreign wheat. The demand ruled heavy in the extreme, and the currencies were nominally quite 2s per quarter lower. Floating cargoes meta very dull inqury. poraries—has been made the theme of a felicitous and thoughtful essay from the pen of a writer evi dently skilled as a reviewer in the pages of Black wood. Besides which have we not from his own hand—the humorous preliminary chapter of canine autobiography, entitled "Tickler among the Thieves." A rather surprising supplement (as it proves) to the twoclelightful contributions published in the October and November numbers of Maga, papers simply headed " An Old Contributor at the Sea Side," but altogether unmistakeable as the productions of Mr. Warren, though emanating from him under the transparent mask of the strictly anonymous ! Surprising indeed, we repeat, is the ' little episode here recounted by Mr. Warren in the life of Tickler—Tickler, be it observed, of the Isle of Skye, and not of the Noctes Ambrosianre. Sur prising in two ways—firstly, inasmuch as the loss of Tickler was a quarter of a year since foresha dowed as by a sort of presentiment ; secondly, as the " Old Contributor" then wrote in Blackwood, hypothetically, as M.P. for somewhere, before Mr. Goulburn's demise, before Mr. Walpole aspired to represent the University of Cambridge, before the borough of Midhurst was opportunely vacated, to the end, as it were, that through it, as through the most natural channel in the world, the author of " Ten Thousand a Year " might follow in the footsteps of his own Charles Aubrey until they eonducted him within the walls of the Eng lish Parliament. There the readers of Blackwood cannot but be right heartily glad to recognise him, if for nothing else, for the sake of the famous master piece already mentioned, and for the sake, too, of its no less memorable precursor, " The Diary of a Late Physician." Another collective criticism, under the broad heading of " Modern Light Li terature," weighs in a balance of Ebony certain recent contributions to English poetry—distribut ing sugar-plums and raps of the ferule to these " true brothers," as the Maga-critic calls them— " Mr. Tennyson, the eldest of the group—Mr. Dobell the sulky boy—Mr. Browning the bois terous one—aud Mr. Smith the younger brother, desperately bent on being even with the first-born, and owning no claim of birth-right." Another in stalment brings to a close the twenty-two animated chapters descriptive of " A Military Adventure in the Pyrenees." An exceedingly didactic writer next apostrophises what he designates " The Wondrous Age," with a lavish expenditure of ca pital vowels, (principally Os) and a prodigal scat tering abroad of hyphens and notes, both interroga tive and exclamatory. After italics, these are the most significant tokens surely of your true Forcible Feebles ! " Touching Oxtord"—[shall we ven ture to add " For the Evil ?"]—is a thoughtful and suggestive letter addressed to Professor Nobel by our old friend Tlepolemus. " The Ancient Coins of Greece," an article so entitled, coming immedi ately afterwards, bein g in effect, as the reader will discover on its perusal, an ingenious review of Mr. Leake's learned Numismata .tTellenica. A smart skit upon "The Drama "—ag it is—comes soon afterwards. A skit (for the criticism is little more pretentious in character) passing the chief among our London theatres successively under examine.- A few sales of fine malting barley were reported at about stationary prices, but all other kinds were 2s cbeaper. As regards malt there was literally no inquiry for it, and prices had a downward tendency. We were well supplied with Irish oats. The sale for most kinds was heavy, and prices were in favour of buyers, viz., from is to 2s per quarter. There was a very slow inquiry for beans, the prices of which were drooping—viz., 2s. per quarter. Peas moved off slowly, and the quotations were not supported, the fall being is per quarter. The flour trade was heavy, and country markets were Is to 2s per sack cheaper. Town -made flour fell 3s, or to 67s pex sack. PREFERENCE 3111 ARES. 109 - 111 107 109 80 85 CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL• MEASURE Malt—Chevalier .... 903 to Ms Oats Yorkshire and Lineolash., Feed 25s 29s Potato . •• . 26s 333 YouthlA and Coe., 81ank....... 23s 28s Cork, W ?site ..... 26s 293 Booteh,' , 'eed. •... 27s 33e Reans—Tiek 368 40s Pigeons, Peas—Grey ......... 378 40s Maple.. •••• • • • • 373 393 White. ........ 448 47s Boilers. ......... 49s 51s Flour—TowB' •made... 66s 67s Suffolk .. ........ 52s 54s StooktivA Norfolk 528 543 Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red new Sato 76s Ditt0........ old 68s 803 Ditto, White new 56s 608 Ditt0........ old 715 83s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 68s 78a l Ditto new .• •• 58s 76s Rye—Old ...• ........ —5 —s New . •• • • ...... 50s Ns Barley—Grinding ••• •• 358 38s Malting .•• •• 37s 3ss Chevalier.•.• • • 388 403 Milt—guifolkand Nor folk •• •• • • ...... 74s 81s Brown ..... •• ...• •• • 648 703 KingstonandWare 788 Sas 92 --• 34 95 - 97 15 - 16 5i - 61 - 124 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MA RKET. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were very moderate—the total supply being onty 916 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we received 1,362 ; in 1851, 2,709; in 1853, 3,770; in 1352, ; in 1851, 3,309; nn.l in 1850, 971 head. .• e•o - 66 IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEIL From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. R o tt er dam l3 I ... 18 Harlingen . 442 ... 230 Ostend Antwerp ••• Hamburgh . 4 Calves. Pigs. ... 80 ... I]G 118 108 - 110 103 105 t T0ta1.... 540 ... 248 ... - _... 120 ... 9i 10 There was a very middling show of foi-eign stoek in to day's market, both as to number and ouality. Of Irish beasts there were exhibited 270 , of sheer; 150 head, chiefly 'via Liverpool. fi - 64 88 - 90 78 - SA 7; - 80 95 100 Compared with Monday last the receipts o f h ome- f e d beasts were considerably on the increase, and nearly the whole of them were in prime condition. Most breeds were in but moderate request, at Friday's decline in the quota tions of 2d per 81bs. The highest figure for beef was 4d per Sibs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshiro we received 2,500 Scots and short horns; from other parts of England 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland 280 horned and polled Scots. 9i - 91 16 -16 i 91 10i 70 -- 72 18i -- 194 94 - 94 13i - 1 4 133 - 135 We were moderately supplied with sheep, but most of them were in good condition. The mutton trade was by no means so active as on this day se'nnight, and all breeds of sheep sold at Friday's decline in value of 2d per Sibs. The top figure for Downs was 4s lOd pat Blbs. The show of calves was very limited. The veal trade, however, was less active than on Friday, yet last Monday's currencies were supported. A few very superior calves realised 6s 2d; but the general top fi wire was 6s per Sibs. We had a fair sale for pigs, the supply of which was moderate, at last week's prices. •• • -- ... ••• ... a. ... ....... 11. ••• -- • M if Per Bibs to sink tho offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2, Second quality.... 3 4 3 8, Prime large oxen 310 4 91 Prime Scots, dm 4 6 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4, Second quality ...3 6 310 Prime erse.-wlled.4 0 4 4 d. s. d. s. ;PrimeSontilown 4 6 410 Large erse. calves 4 8 5 4 Prime small do 5 6 6 0 Large hogs Small porkers 4 4 5 C Suckling calves 22 0 29 0 ( Quarter old pigs 22 0 2S 0 FO&SON SUPPLY. lil - 133 94 - 136 1 - 1 - 44 }... - ... TOTAL RIPPLY. Beasts .. • ...... ...... _3.819 Beasts•• •• .• ....•• •••• • 552 "'"" ••• 99 - 101 90 - 92 5 - 1 is 6; 22f - 95 - 97 91 9i 2i - 24(11 alleep ..• •• oo Calves 54 Sheep .. • • ................ Calves..• . ....... ...... Pigs .. . ..... •••• ...... A statement nod comparison of , thp supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 5, 1855, and in the Mebropolitan Market this day, Monday, Feb, 4, 1856. Per Blbs, to sink the offals. Feb. 5,1855.1 Feb. 4,'56. s. d. s. dds. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 4 to 3 6,3 oto 3 2 Second quality ditto ... 3 8 4 2,3 4 3 8 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 61 10 4 4 Prime Scots, &e 4 8 4 1011 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 8,'3 0 Second quality ditto ... 310 4 2 3 6 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 4 4 814 0 Prime Southdown ditto 410 5 0,4 6 Lambs 0 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 g 5 4 Prime small ditto ... 5 6 6 0 Largo hogs ... 3 0 4 fl Neat small porkers 4 2 4 4 Beasts... 3,586 Sheep ... ..„ 2,4920 Calves... 94 Pigs ...315 274 Burman ox SALE, Fob. 6, 1854.—Beasts, 3,800; sheep 19,520; calves, 180 ; pigs, 335. February 7, 1853.—Beasts, 4,207 ; sheep, 17,780 ; calves, 214; pigs, 220. 0 0 L 4 8 5 6 1 3 8 :1 4 0 0 5 4 6 0 4 2 5 0 3,819 21,560 NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. Inward supplies of both town and ecuntry killed meat have been on sale here . since M on day last. Generally speaking, the demand 15 m a sluggish state, as follows : Per Blbs by tho carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 3 10 Dc' , do. small 4 0 4 2 P.►rk, large 3 4 4 0 Mutton Inferior Do., Do., prima Voal s. 4. 8. (1. 2 10 3 2 ..3 4 3 8 —3 10 4 4 .4 0 5 8 ~4 2 5 0 Pork, mall BOROUGH HOP. The show of hops continues extensive, and about an average business is doing in most kinds at full prices. Last week's imports were 88 bales from Boulogne, 20 from Ham bro'. from Rotterdam, and 49 from Ostend. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 103 to 6/ 10s per cwt ; 3/ Os to 4/ 15s. Weald of Kent , 315 s to 5/ Os ; stmex, BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last, thp receipts of potatoes have been seasonably good, though not quite so extensive as of late. The sale for most kinds is very inactive, as follows : York Regents' 90a to 1003 ; K ent an d E ssex , d o ., 80 s to . 90s ; Scotch do., 70s to 80s ; do. cups, 55s to 70s ; middlings, 50s to 00s; blues, 60s to 70; Lincoln, 60s to 70s per ton. WOOL. We have to report a considerable imp rovement in the demand for English wool , at an advance in the quotations of from id to ld per lb. Foreign and colonial qualities are very firm. The next public sales will comments on tho 14th inst., and the following quantities will be offered : Sydney, 1,540 ; Port Philip, 6,605 ; Van Diemen's Land, 1,748; Adelaide, 1,803; Cape, 15,766; New Zealand, 347 ; and East India, 3,174 — to tal, 40,984 b a l es . Last week's imports were 1300 bales from Moreton Bay, 783 from the Cape, 1,232 from Algoa Bay, 2,200 from Sydney, 70 from Buenos lyres, and 40 from the Continent. The following are the current rates of English wool Down tags, is lid to is 3id ; half-bred hoggets, is 2d to is is 3d 2;d; combing ;10 c wet b h i e nT skin, lsi I d rd l is2 s d ; Down d 2 ;lCent,il weseceese is 2d to , is 2d to is 3 i ; Leicester fleeces, is to is 14d; flannel wool, is ld to is 24d ; blanket wool, 9d tois id per lb. SEEDS. Holders of all agricultural seeds are firir7in their de mands, but the business doing in them is very limited on cakes, very barely arely linseed, ta t o n n d a r r y a p p e r s i o c e e d s an d at l little e i r s t d e o r i m ng s : Tarnip,White,por bush. 225 to 25s Carraway (new)...... 42s 44s Swede .. • • •• —8 —8 Coriander 268 30s Mustard, 8r0wn...... 12s 20s liempseed, per quarter 545 60s White, new.• 88 Ile Linseed, Eng.9owing.. --s s Tares, Winter, new.... 6s 6d 78 6d Crushing 739 809 Old.. •• • • -13 -8 Baltic . • •• .• •• •• -2 Canary, per quarter .. 633 69s Odessa _ 9 Rye grass • • .. ••• • • • 2411 30s Linseed Cake, Pr. ton— Clover,RedEng. (cwt.) 683 80s English ..131 Os 131 5s White ........ •• 70s 90s Foreign,por ton 121 Os 13110 s Foreign Red...... 628 72s Rape Cakes, pr ton 6114 s 71 58 White •• •• 70s 85s Rapeseed, New, pr qr., as 903 Trefoil. new.. •• 408 46s TALLOW. Our market is exceedingly heavy► and prices are lower. P.T.C. on the spot, is nominally quoted at 67s per cwt. Other sorts may be had 2/. per ton beneath this price, and of an equal quality . . Rough fat, 31. ld. po r 8 lbs. 1 1851. 1852. I 185 3. 1854. 185 Stock this day .... 54.936 41,659 33.861 •40,470 21,432 3556 d to 43s 9d 625 Oat° 565 61 to 58s 6d Price of Y. C .... [ 35a 91 to 44s Od —3 06 —a Od to —3 06 Delivery last week • • 2,355 2,124 1,981 1,721 817 Ditto from June 1.... 77,905 72,011 73,911 65,729 81,509 Arrivals last week.. 521 324 1,144 6,072 276 Ditto from Junel .... 96,307 74,142 89,459 61,199 56,399 PricP of Toun - .. 39; 6,11 468 64 64i Od 578 ad 563 66 tion. Here is Blackwood's tribute of admiration to Robson, the bright particular " star " of the Olympic. The reviewer has just said that Robson is "perfect nature"—and adds thereupon : " Perfect nature in burlesque—impossible ! Is it pos sible, however, with Robson. Usually burlesque acting is the most unnatural thing in the world ; no single passion or state is represented truly ; every word, every tone, every look is false. With Robson, however, every tone is true, every look is nature ; it is in the jumble and juxtaposition of details that his burlesque consists, in suddenly passing from the extreme of anger or fear to the extreme of humorous ease, in suddenly relapsing into vulgar slang in mid-volley of the most passionate speech, and all with the most marvelous flexibility of voice and feature. Presto ! faster than we can follow him, he has changed from grave to gay, from lively to severe. The Yellow Dwarf of last year was probably his greatest effort, although Prince Richcraft of the present season is not far behind. It has a mad scone, whichis equal to anything he has ever personated." Blackwood is loud in its censure, by the way, of the word-catching of our fast young London play wrights, such as Mr. Talfourd, not forgetting even a veteran punster like Mr. Plancho, the admitted Prince of Burlesque-writers. Yet for the sake of a miserable play upoo words the critic himself is guilty of an act of gross injustice where he says of persaps the finest pantomime of late years—E. L. Blanchard's glorious Pantomime at Drury-lane— " Hey Diddle Diddle the Cat and the Fiddle, is all fiddlededee." Such are the temptations of a joke, however empty, blatant, and worthless it happens to be Here, however, is the critic's happy out burst of indignation, half serious, half assumed, in regard to the Pantomime Proper, its punnin gpre lude, and its boisterous harlequinade : " Puns, puns, nothing bat puns-- tnd such rough prac tical joking as the youth of England delight in ! What an immense deal of laughter they manage to get out of that part of the body in which angels are said to he deficient. It is kicked, pins are stuck into it as a con venient pin-cushion ; Clown puts a live lobster into his comprehensive pockets, and jumps up with fearful gri maces. Then what pulling of noses ; how they are fattened, how they are lengthened, how they are black ened with soot, how they are filled with snuff till the poor member sneezes and bleeds ! And how little the fellows in the boxes laugh and crow over the practical jokes ! It is such rare tun to see Clown stumble over a baby and crush its head like a pancake, and double it up into the cradle. 0 glorious to see a shopkeeper's window smashed, and his coat torn off his back ; to see Clown burning the potatoes and licking the rnast, and throwing carrots and turnips about the stage ; to see Pantaloon pitched into the pot, and turning out a plum pudding ; to see Clown's head cut tiff, and the body running headless about the stage, the head crying out for the body,—glued on to the shoulder, and so happily united that Clown takes a leap through a window, and tumbles bask as well as ever through the grating below ; to see the sucking-pig running about, and given to the nurse instead of her lost child ; to see Clown for all his iniquities put into a great gun, with lots of powder, and shot to perdition, next hanging like a caitiff from the top of the theatre, and suddenly flopping down on the devoted heads of first and second fiddle in the orchestra. Hip, hip ! away, you little wicked•eyed youngkers, and when you go house put the poker in the fire, Master Jacky, turn in your small toes, and with your redhot plaything burn holes in the tails of papa's coat, while Sarah Jane dances about in all the ecstacy of Colum bine." The last sentence is nothing more nor less than a reminiscence of one of those delicious little sketches of Christmas-time in John Leech's glorious " Pic tures of Life and Character." After this very read able essay on " The Drama" comes a singularly un readable and tediously ill-timed paper headed " Lessons from the War"—just as we are agonised by sinister doubts and fears as to the chances of a dis graceful Peace, the attempted patching up of which is to begin before the 20th of this present February. At the close of the current number of Blackwood's Magazine there is, to crown all, a brief but genial tribute of praise to the Rev. John Caird's eloquent and practical sermon upin " Religion in Common Life," the sermon recently preached before the Queen, and just now published by her Majesty's command. Dublin University.—The remarkable story of " The Fortunes of Glencore " is again resumed, but its progress is not very rapid in this number. The gloomy recluse, Lord Glencoro, accomplishes his vow, in informing his son of the unhappy mys tery that hangs over his birth, and the result is that the boy rushes off in a state of distraction. The cautious Sir Horace Upton endeavours with his plausible sophistries to smooth matters, but to little avail, and at the termination of the present part, the wretched object under dispute is left dan gerously ill at a little cabin, where lie had taken shelter. The amusing tale entitled " Love in Curl- Papers" is continued, and is interesting; there is something very pleasing in the character of Bea trix, she is simple and unassuming, and the Pro fessor is described in a natural manner. The peace ful tenour of the time that the four passed together on the banks of the Rhine is a pretty sketch of rural life, and if, as is observed, its continuance tended to monotony, it was not the less a bright dream of the past, to shine out vividly amid the lowering clouds of future existence. The calm was transient, however, for circumstances compel led the German student to depart, and while his English friend was endeavouring to account for his strange disappearance, he, too, was called upon to leave, as he received a letter from his father, de nouncing his mode of life, and repudiating the idea of his forming an engagement with Bea trix. The Professor and his daughter were left to speculate on the attractions the world ever exercises on its votaries, however they may declare for a time that they are willing to giv e u p " Its pomps, its pleasures, and its nonsense all." " The Doctor in the Witness-box" enters at some ' length into the late strange occurrences connected with the Burden case. " Novels and Novelists" contains some curious specimens of old times. It is remarked that what are now considered synony mous terms were then very different, namely, ro mances and novels, and that, in speaking of the difference in length between them in the " Curio sities of Literature," Disraeli felicitously observes —" Our grandmothers were incommoded with over-grown folios ; and instead of finishing the eventful history of two lovers at one or two sittings, it wa,D sometimes sip kayntltsa inauding tUrtdoys, Bentley's Miscellany.—" The Question of the Day " is the title of the opening article in Bentley's Miscellany, and of course takes into consideration the pending negotiations. It is followed by the editor's new story of " The Spendthrift," which is continued in the same lively strain that has hitherto characterised it. It narrates the adventures of the masquerade supper. A paper on Mout St. Michel and its cachots, gives some curious accounts of that remarkable fortress. A description of the cage which existed there for many years gives a pain ful idea of the barbarities which despotism found means to execute Flo late as the seventeenth century. A news-writer in Holland, published some sarcastic reflections on Louis XIV. and Madame de Main tenon. Soon after he Was induced to quit the Dutch territory, and immediately he had done so he was arrested and conveyed to Mont St. Mi chel, where he was shut up in the cage. He re mained there twenty-three years, and at last died there. He was allowed neither fire nor candle, nor was he permitted to have a book, or to see any human being except the jailer, who handed him his daily food. He contrived to draw a nail out of the wood, and to carve on the bars of his cage armorial bearings and flowers. This was his only amusement or occupation during his frightful captivity, a singular memorial of the greatness of the " Grand Monarque." Dudley Costello's story of the " Dock Warrants" is continued at some length and without much interest. The readers of "Bentley" may possibly admire this style—it appears to us to possess more verbosity than ele gance. More interesting papers are those on " Laurence's Life of Fielding" and "Ueaumarchais and his Times." Perhaps it is not generally known that the despised Quartier de Saint Denis in Paris has the honour of being the birth-place of Beaumarchais, Regnard, Scribe, and last, not least, Beranger. " Our First Lodgers" is the continua tion and conclusion of a story that appeared in last month's number. As a matter of course there is an article on Sebastopol, which, however, is dis tinguished by fair and moderato views. As a mat ter of course, also, the " Adventures of Benjamin Bobbin, the Bagman" are continued. The only poetical contribution is some spirited verses on the "Minehead Pilot s ," i n a ll us i on t o th e b e li e f still prevalent there that a phantom ship occa sionally appears to lure pilots to a watery gray-. Monkshood, in his "New Book Notes," gives us some entertaining remarks on Mr. Macaulay's new volumes. In allusion to the numerous authorities who have furnished him with in formation, and . to his own assertion that he has turned over every page in the collection of rew, papers of William the Third's reign in the British. Museum, the writer remarks that few indeed are the historians who could have done that, and yet show no trace of their researches in their pages. Ho aptly quotes a remark made by }Judos— " L'historieu doit tout lise, et no doit ecrire quo ce qui merit° d'etre lie."‘ Colburn's New Itimtt "Omer Pacha's Campaign" in Asia is a subject which has lately excited so much interest that we are not surprised to find this part of the campaign the topic of the opening article. It chiefly treats of the natural, peculiarities of Armenia and its neighbourhood, and the fortifications, &c., of its cities and towns; "Adela Chenevix" is the title of the first part of a tale by the author of " The Unholy Wish." It is written with the author's usual skill, but the plot is a painful one, and we fear, if he fulfils his promise of a continua tion, it will become more so. A notice of Mr. Kingston's book of " Western Wanderings" gives some amusing extracts relating his Canadian expe riences. A paper on Russia on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff is founded on Mr. Seymour's recent work, and furnishes the reader with some novel information. An essay on " Unhealthy Employments" presents some striking subjects for the consideration of employers and workmen. It not only shows the evil, but the means by which it may be evaded, or at least ameliorated, by some of those simple rules so invaluable in their effects, but so often disregarded. It is not, perhaps, generally known that one of the most fatal employments is that of the workers in flax mills. Of these not one in 2,079 is found alive at 70, while out of 110 gardeners there aro 10 who have reached this period of life. It must be mentioned, however, that the latter occupation is the most healthy, persons in independent cir cumstances being generally the longest livers of any. This is easily accounted for by their exemp tion from the cares and anxieties that press upon those who have to earn their living, besides their absence from the injurious action of the different articles of manufacture, &c., such as the prejudicial effect of the stone dust upon masons, and of the oxide of load on the workers at glazad. earthenware. The thirty-fifth number of the "Literary L3aflets" furnishes us with a criticism on Dr. Liddell's " History of Rome," which gives the historian credit for adequate scholarship, clearness of ar rangement and style, and calmness of judgment, but aments the absence of the depth or originality of view, the energy of grasp, the penetration into character which are to be desired in such a work. " Stoke Dotterell" is completed, and brings the troubles of its hero and heroine tea satis factorytermination. " The Bonfire at Temple ar " is a boisterous cavalier song, whose style may be best imagined from the supposed singers. It is described as " sung by a party of merry fellows, dressed in dirty crimson and yellow satin, as they lean out of the window of a Fleet street tavern, May 1660." It is anonymous, but the style is similar to some productions of Mr. Thornbury. The second part of " The Alchemist's Daughter " contains the conclusion of that melancholy history. This is one of those translations from the G-srman, which bear unmistakeable evidence of their origin in their murders and banditti, unfortunate attach ments, and all sorts of mystic horrors and s r e_n i t i t- . mentalism. " Fontainebleau under Louis I and Napoleon I." contains some useful hisi ed ic il l i information, which is not, however, convey the most lively manner. e o owing rom at the present crisis. en rth ic ll • f e Colburn's United Service is not "found wanting" n't find the moment Ignominious Peace," the pen of the editor :—we write is all but concluded. . . . rir c l e :ng intentions , surrender every thing . an 2 11 0a ignominious uies aft cr t h p they have won, and are thankful to receive in return the lost Armenian stronghold and a strip o f worthless territory at the mouth of the Danube. At the very moment when we were about to put forth our strength, when our army was revived, an d our gun-boats, two years on the stocks, were at last launched, we throw down the sword and clutch at the olive branch, which, to say the truth, we could devoutly wish were a good cudgel to be laid over the backs of the men who conclude this peace." Referring to the dropped question, " What is to be done with the Crimea ?" he remarks —" For ourselves we think of the English blood which has watered its accursed soil ; of our dead comrades who lie by thousands in the same gory bed, and, what is even more deplorable still, of our national honour buried under the debris of the Redan. For what have these sacrifices been wade ? Truly we might think it was to avenge Moscow and reverse Waterloo." Of a verity one might ! But hearken : " This peace may be concluded, but it is only the beginning of the end ; and our battle. With Russia, however long it may be delayed, will yet have to be fought out"—aye , as surely as day fo l loro n i g ht, But isthe editor oatioted that the Fables Nouvelles : suivies de foesics Diterses. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain. Whittaker and Co. The translator of " Gay's Fables" into French, appears before us, in this charming little volume, himself as an original fabulist. The Chevalier de Chatelain has mastered net only the barbarisms of our own vernacular—but the harsher language of bird and beast; insomuch that he takes rank among the Mezzofantis of the aviary and the zoo logical garden, a disciple at once of Gay and Pilpay I of iEsep and La Fontaine. Turning over his plea sant pages it is like gaining a new sense—at the first rustle of the leaves we are listening to a sage dialogue between the elephant and the scorpion ! Another flutter of these same leaves and we are overhearing a confabulation between a candle and an eclipse ! Another, and we are hearkening to a chance talk between a tiger and some moun taineers. It is a glimpse, again, of Fairyland. The glamour is once more upon us. wre - are crowned, as it were, with the Cap of For tunatus. We are striding over the hills in the seven-league boots of Hop o' ray Thumb. We have a loan from Jack the Giant killer of his sword of strength and his shoes of swiftness. Closing the book and returning to every-day life—it is like the Princess of the Magic Pantomime leaving her spangled tunic, and her tinselled crown, and her glittering wand, to walk home in the gaslight and the snow, in grey shawl and a straw bonnet. Apart from the " Fables," however, the book before us has its. eccentricities. It is dedicated "Au Poete Henry 'Wadsworth Longfellow," in terms so high-flown that they must infallibly have soared far over the head of the object aimed at, but that that happily chalced to be at somewhat of the loftiest altitude—homage, that is to say, to the genius of the truest and loveliest of the poets of America ! The " good taste" of the dedication, howbeit, may seasonably, we cannot but think, be called in question, when it is remembered that words of praise to Longfellow are jumbled up confusedly with gibes at "le 21 Mars dernier, Fast Day ! ce jour ou l'Elypocrisie, l'Odieux,' et l'Absurde, Trinite tou to puissante en Angleterre, (kc.," and jeers at " l'affaire Honorable Francis Villiers, fils du Comte de Jersey, et Membre du Parla ment pour Rochester, et bien d'autre encore I ! !" The italics, by the way, being the Chevalier's own, and so too, for that matter, being likewise the notes of admiration. However, M. de Chatelain is a brave man—and that is the secret of it all—other wise we should never have him, for instance, cele brating the terrible legend of " Le Juif Errant," we won't say after sue, but after Beranger ! After that wonderful refrain— "Toujours, toujours, Toujours, toujours, Tourne la terre ott nsoi je tours, Toujours, toujours, toujours, toujours." Among the minor pieces in the volume under notice, entitled to commendation, are the charming stanzas " le voudrais etre"—stanzas conceived in a strain kindred to that exquisite Chanson, in the " Miller's Daughter" of Tennyson-- "And I would be the girdle, About the dainty dainty waist, And her heart would beat against me In sorrow and in rest ; And I should know if it beat right, I'd clasp it round so close and tight." Sweetest morceait of all the hook, however, to our wind is incomparably " Le Reve D'un Petit En fant"—beginning : " Comore it est heureux mon grand frere, Qu'il est heureux d'avoir six ans ! Taniis que je fais ma, priers Au bal it va, nest-ce pas, mere ? Au hal de Brands petits enfants? Ah ! qu'il est heureux mon grand fr.re, Qu'il est heureux d'avoir six ans !" Gentle is the heart of the Chevalier de Chatelain, say we after that. If eccentric may be his taste now and then—gentle is his heart and lively are his imaginings. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. No. I. Conducted by Members of the Two Universities. Bell and Daldy. Judging it solely from its table of contents, we might a3suridly be tempted to pronounce this new adventure in the literary world to be one of the most attractive of this month's periodicals. Ex amining it more carefully, we aro compelled to pronounce it one of the very flimsiest. There are two " storiettes" in it—" The Cousins" and " The Rivals"—rivals so nearly related to each other that they might be described as cousins. There is the prelude to a sententious biography of "Sir Philip Sidney," something in effect like.nne of the pictures described once upon a time by Mr. A. Titmarsh, " handsome gilded frames with paint inffs in them." There is a jingle of verse called " Winter Weather : a Poem." There is what is termed " The Story of the Unknown Church." And there are reviews, to crown all, of Kings ley's " Sermons for the Times," of Tennyson's " Poems," of Longfellow's " Song of Hiawatha," and of Tiiackeray's "Newcomes." Sufficiently alluring as themes, no doubt—but read them Read the criticism on Tennyson--the nut-cracking of the veriest squirrel of a prig ! Read " The Essay on the Newcomes"—a sort ofmongrel half sermon, half review, written, it would seem, not so much upon a desk as upon a pulpit cushion. The contributors to the Oxford and Cambridge Maga;ine are evidently lions, like Bully Bottom, who can "roar you like any sucking dove"— a set of slow young men,—(there is no other word for it), —Prigs—in all-round collars and Noah's Ark coats—holding the Dii Majores of the new age to be Mr. Ruskin, and Kingsley, and Mr. Hol man Hunt, Mr. This, and M r . That, and Mr. The other, and themselves of course destined to set the Thames in a blaze. Meanwhile in due time— be sure of that—their grand bran new organ of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine will inevit ably, infallibly, inexorably—Die the Death ! THE INDIAN MAIL.—The ordinary overlay 3d mail from India and China, via Marseilles, arrived in London early this morning, having been conveyed across the Chadnel by special steamer, and brought lc, town by a special train of the South-Eastern Railway. The mail was due three or four days since ; and the ge, neral intel lipnce to the dates w hi c h i t brings reach% i England last Wednesday, 14c4 Trieste, and has alreadj appeared in The Sun. before they could get quit of their Delias, their Cyruses, and Parthenissas." An instance of the antiquated style of writing is given, by selecting " The Palmer's Tale," by Robert Greene, who lived in the Elizabethan age. It is interesting to trace the diversity of composition, as com pared with the productions of the present day. An article is devoted to the cousidera- tion of " Macaulay's History of England," in which the brilliant author is called the "Homer of Modern History," it is remarked that it is a phenomena in the world of literature to witness the infusion of passion into the narrative of truth ; to find a parallel to it, we must go back to the age of the demigods and heroes of a primeval world. After a skilful criticism of the volumes, the writer of this article concludes by deprecating with jus tice any " infusion of party spirit" into so great a work. " Mr. Macaulay has much still to write. Let us be. seech of him, with all the earnestness of respectful ad miration and regretful respect, to banish from his mind every prejudice that can possibly connect the politics of the Past with the passions of the Present ; and reflect that however gorgeons the coating which is laid over the face of the marble into which the events of other times are graven, and however artfully those characters may be concealed, an age will come in which the process of restoration will succeed the process of defacement, and the plaster will be stripped ruthlessly off to get down to the truth it overlays. " A little closer self-correction on this point will re move the last obstacle to Mr. Macaulay's admission amongst the exalted class—how few compose it !—who deserve to be considered as having resolved the problem of the Ancient—how to write History." " Potemkin, the Crimea, and the Imperial Army and Navy of the last Century" is the first paper in the magazine, and is well worthy of perusal by those who wish to be enlightened as to the intricate nature of Russian affairs. " A Handful of Cava lier Songs" comprises several pieces, which are spirited in their style, and of a flowing measure, but not distinguished for any peculiarity. " The Old Park Gates" is the best. " Shine sur, beat wind, blow hot, blow cold, They stand stern looking on, Taking no count of the days or hours, Or the ages past and gone." 9 i # i i 731 21 523 914 i 2 78 53i 9 8a 98 7i 8i 100/ 1 93i 2/ 69i 70 69i A I,avieen n 4. N 0.2, 7 p. Do. Debentures gly-thantiTyn ,Oprr c. pref. (issd.l,tsoZ) St Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO . obes. clo. 44n. 5,i pc Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Band 0n5., , p.c Dun.Prtb Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c. Ras. ro , !; , 7 ,5 p c Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. o. 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The number contains much useful information about the East and the war e here and there enlivened by pleasant gossip. The Law Magazine opens with an eulogistic but discriminating article on " Sir Samuel Romi ly ; as an Advocate, a Jurist, and a Legislator." A man whose name, it is justly remarked "awakens every feeling that responds to all that is good, and noble, and elevated in human nature." Among the more noticeable articles may be mentioned "The Eccle siastical Courts in Ireland," " The Present and Past state of Doctor's Commons," and "On Un soundness of Mind, in its Medical Tana Legal Con. siderations." 3 ,•••• resul t s 0 'ably eta ignowil lious milt -aced as a, lies, an& con.- ,:coxls as re ; ; that e a ,data uot ktbets 'a of ate L ITERATURE. ISLE OF WIGHT ST lIAM BRIDGE. A public meeting was convened at the Town-hall, Ryde, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of discussing the merits of the proposed steam bridge. The objects were lucidly explained to the meeting by Messrs. Fleming, details principal of the project ; and as it i s somewbat of novel c h aracter it Webster, Barrow, M.D., and, and S im p son, who are directors, and locally interested in t he undertakin g ; and Messrs. Rendel and Fulton, the engineers, attended t o give au explanationi i n t of e the t may not be ut resing engineering feat uree. It is intended t o make a s hort extension railway f rom G o sport to Stokes Bay , in to state the off Angleaea, where a pier, similar to the Liverpool Floating Landing Stage, will ran out into sufficiently deep water to accommodate steamers at all times of tide, and will supersede the present necessity of a change of conveyance between the Gosport and Ports mouth Railway Stations and the steam-boats. Between this pier and the Ryde side, a floating bridge will tra verse a distance of three miles (instead of the present route between Gosport and Ryde of five-and-a-half miles) in about twenty minutes, at half-hour intervals, with passengers, goods, and cattle, and with the greatest regularity, so as to work ill with the London trains, and thereby reducing the time of the journey between Lon don and Ryde ti three hours, instead of, as at present, from four-and-half to five hours. Such facilities will be 1 • a s will enable horses and carts, or carriages , to given drive on and off the floating-bridge by a moveable stage, which will land or embark them with great ease and comfort at all times of tide, at the Ryde Esplanade. The steadiness of the bridge is such, that horses and Bib l sprouts or c A rriages can be conveyed with the least pos . . inconvenience. As this will ever be the prinip_ b e to and from the island, it is said the t ra ffi c will very that the pre sentand as it has been credibly stat ed great, dividends and bonuses 15 per Ryde Pier pays in doubt that the cent., there can be but little on 20,0001.,roject would give a handsome r eturn ca p of pit u al. It is l this being the proposed amountpro of steamers between Stokes Bay Pier and Havre, by m e journey between d • t can be ma ein wo hour • less than by and Havre tod also will shorte h by the present route,dt n the sea pee -1 e • les, an save the inconvenience and ex sage by ...e m i les, pea se of of conveyance . a change c for passengers and luggage bet ween the Southampt on station and the e It would also be steam ers. a convenient calling place for the steamers running between New York and Bre men. A series of resolutions were proposed, and unani mously adopted, in favour of the Stokes Bay Railway Pier and Isle of Wight Steam Bridge, and a committee, consisting of inhabitants of the town, was appointA, Co co-operate with the directors in carrying out tbco i undertaking; N.keilioOta Of Dt a. Of WO E 3• icl‘ rce hat the nil bbe die cif 30 the ith ds, the lea n tO ted 'rid )e, of ,p• 8 2,3 .40 10 10 3 A.O ail 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 all