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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. 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 nu speculation ; 250 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 41. ; 1.000 - Bahia (all on speculation), at Gad. ; 300 Egyptian, at 6,1. to Bd. ; 1,000 Surat, at 4id. to 41d. ; and 50 Sea Islands, at ls. 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 dols. Accounts from Chili mention that a new treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation has been formed between that country and the Unite Estates. Commercial advices from Havre state that trade is remarkably brisk at that port. The demand for 'Cotton continues good, and the market is regularly supplied ; 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 ; 140 bales Buenos Ayres sold at If. 25c. to 2f. 15c. Per kilo., and 26 Australian at 4f. 75c. to 6f. 25c. 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 none time, and prices are rising. At the public lialea 30,000 piculs were disposed of at an average °f 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 14 fl- At Samarang 4,703 piculs averaged 15if1., and 10,000 at 151 Rice was falling in price, in con seq uence 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 °lrk the berth for Australia, New Zealand, Van ietnen's Land, &c. Vessels. Tons. Australia, Melbourne, and Geelong 2 ... 21,24 New South Wales l5 ... 11,265 Adelaide g wan River 1 ... 406 Van Diemen's Land New Zealand 4 ... '1,226 There is more firmness in the market for English gecurities, in consequence of the intelligence that the preliminaries of a peace have been signed at Paris, while the expectation that the Emperor's Speech will be favourable impart 4 confidence. Consols opened at 91 for money, and have since been 91U. Theaccount prices from 91i I haverisen to 91!..,..The Scrip is 13 prom. Exchequer Bills are 2 e. discount- to par, and the Scrip is 1f prem. Th e New Three per Cents. are 92 to 931, and the lleduced 91i to 92. Foreign Stocks are quiet, but firm. Turkish A 0 u per Cents. are 951 1 for money, and 951 to 96. Spanish Deferred are 234 Russian 5 per Cents. tre 1011, Sardinian 89/ to 90, Danish 3 per Cents. 83 1, and Brazilian sper 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 Bonds, 6i 71; Mexican, 20 31 ; Peruvian, 78 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 58 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto 4; per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish S per Cents., 42 1 3,1 ; ditto Deferred, 23k 4 ; ditto Certificates, 41 5 ; Ditto Passive, 61 1. An improvement has taken place in the Railway Share Market. Caledonian have risen ss. to 10s., Great Western 18s., Lancashire and Yorkshire ss. to 108., 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 .&T ON CLOCK_ ( Fro '4 the Oficial _ _ _ . .4,- ~.- done . S per Ccnt. Decl . ..ced Annuities._ • her Cent Coati()ls An n uities 91.1 i . 14 T'w 3 per Cent. AnnnitieQ .... .. 92i 3 tlevr2, per Cent. Annuities 7 41 2 Lone Annuities, expire sth Tan. Mil) .. 31- Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, ISBS l7i 15-16 ladia Stock C , •,-nis ~u. Account Ditto Scrip Exchequer Scrip ••• lf p Eromquer Hills, 23d. £IOOO A:500 4rrks,ii ...... . . ... ... . ... Ditto Advertised 2 3 d RiDitto Bonds, 1b58,3 per Cent 9 4 i Ditto, 1359 ... .. PRICK OP' FOREIGN FUNDS AT ()Nit, ( POl,O K. Illizilitm Bonds. 5 per Cent. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 182:5 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £St IOI.E a d Sardinian BonJ.s, 5 per Cent. ... "0 89i lipltnist; Routs, 3 per Cent , ....... .. -• . , • nitto Fora Pefoteed, 3 per rent. Ditto Account . . T 1 , 9, ,. ti , ,mds per coot: .. . . . ..... . 97, . 1 ; Ditto Account French Relates, 42 per Cent. Ditto :3 per Cent ' 7:lf Silo 25f 40c TWO O'CLOCK. C msols, 9IA ii' Ditto Account LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) Li - owl:my, March 3.—Wine fay at noon, N.N.E.; Moderato breeze and cloudy. ~ RAMSGATR, March 2.-Wind N.E.—Arrived—French ship-of-war Faon, from a cruise. DOVER, March 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Barbadian, from the Mauritius. 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 (a.), New York, with 700,000 dollars in specie. BRIDLINGTON, March 2.—Tbe Bectivo, of Hartlepool, was abandoned on the 20th Feb., after being in collision with the Leith (s.), of London, which proceeded without serious injury; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, 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 ; Willielmina, Bombay; Blue Jaoket, Madeira. OFF BIDEFORD, March 2.—Thetis, of Exeter, in tow of the brig Ann, of Plymouth, dismasted, from contact with the American ship Arctic, from Boston to Cardiff. KINSALE, March I.—Wind E.—Arrived—Hope, from Honduras, with loss of main and mizen-topmasts. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—Bessie, from Sunderland ; Pacific, Stockton ; Eden, Alexandria ; La Poule, Cherbourg ; South-Western, (R.), Jersey. Sailed—l 4 imeriek Lass, for Newport ; Queen, (s.), Oporto ; Sisters and George Johnson, Sunderland ; De vonshire, (s.), London ; Gemalza, Australia. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Lancaster and Potomac, from New Orleans Victoria, Mobile ; Standard, Savannah ; Sea Belle, Char• leston. Sailed—Gambia, for Toulon ; William and Charles, Gib• raltar ; Leno, Genoa. DTBLIN, Feb. 1. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Lady Cecilia, from Alexandria. WATERFORD, Feb. 29. Wind S.W. Arrived—Sylph, from Magazan. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 1. Wind E. • • A.M. Arrived—Granton and Saud. Roddington, from Callao , Esther Ann, Pernambuco ; North Star, Athens ; Abana, Syra ; Nancy, Mangan. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TVILRGRATz, GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.38 a. m. Wind N.E., fresh, and cloddy, past high water. Arrived, 2d—Wave, from Guernsey ; Barbadian, Mau ritius ; Alford, Stettin ; Anna Dorothea, Memel. 3d De Jonge Rentie, Worcum. Sailed, 3—Wynand, for HODt7 Bon :. DEAL, Monday, 9.15 a.m. Wind N.B. by N., strong. Passed—Tar, (schoonor), from Swansea, for London ; Edina, (schooner), Shields, for Rio Janeiro : her Majesty's gun-boats Griper and Herring, from tlio River, for Ports mouth. 10 05 olitY' t e ri , eali v o ga kighe° CO . ~froo a from eark ei , sa ie, arbor f . gibs: About Inds at traa . A. tb° of 0 ! .ot, dltric°' SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices 6aturday 8 8i 16 15 13 14 9 g S 5 57 57 12i 13 • •• •••• •••• ••• ''.. 4 2 8 - 8.4 121 43A 9$ 9i 32 34 22 24 70 - 72 51 - 56 91 -9;: 26 - 27 85 - 87 6i - 7 93 - 931 78 -- 80 119 121 101 :06 59 69 73 - 76 6i 74 6 7 82 823 7 7i 93 99 99} 100 id pan t 921 93j 241 14 - i d 614 70 40 -- 42 10 11 51 53 3i 29 30 ... ' 75i 761 61 • 6 4 - 3i '5l 6; 511 52 88 90 -. 10 22 - 24 04 - 106 74 76 46 48 Ala '26 65 66 71. 73 1 4 2' id i 4 36 RAILWAYS. ,r. 'Patel 3t.~1.f:: :?~ .0 1 111 •:A j i an *ll 2 I ;15 all A TOO St. I WO to 161. an A 1 18 .0 all .01 8 .0 I ?51 All St. 'lOO 10 211 Bt. 1100 73t. ltY.) 15 I 8 iY all A) all '6; l 4; 18; 8 3t. 100 3 .1t bll It. 100 1100 LO L 26 24 it 100 i 0 all tO all l 5 all it !I'/ 0 12F l2s. 10 1 -it. 'Oil it [1.9() i 0 all t 5 all ktr.,bg. Nottag, B. anti &vita. Junet. 'fast. Wolverb -4,our Valley... in e shcl. - heshirt Junet (he & Birk £5O &LA £25 Gm. Toot ori,gina £25 (istsci. at 41 irtstc,l and Itacto, . ‘2 , T Tn. and Ca , digaa !hester Holylityao lork and Bandon lork, Vaek, & Pas -1 ,rnwall Do. A Do. B crie f Junction.... D:.b'indtßolfastJunr. Dun. P. la An. Jnc. East Al;glian Eastern Counties Mast. 'Tnion, A SU ID." B. Stevt.„ Do., New A. East Kent Lancashire __ Edinbu-gli&Glasgo Edinb. and Peebles .Edin.Prtb &Durd . w'ort'h & Clyde Jen:. Eurness. Do. Extension.. Glasgow & 5. West Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern... Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock h. Stk. &West.are Treat Western Du. Stour Val Ra'' Gua. Stk. . (fish South-Basler . retneaster k CarHsi. ' Do., Thirds 'Do. Now Thirds Lancash. andYork,'; • D 3., Wet. aiding IT n Liv.ersby.&Southi London & Black : Lon& Bright & t. Lend. and N. Wesv. i)o. Fifths DO,lOl. t3h.. tk B Do. Eigt.ths . Lonion nue!. 1)0„ £44 Iffyincirry&Colemm !,nrincirr7. &Inn. ganch.Shef.& Lin. • •., Mari. Motropolitati... ..... . :natio 1 )0. ilirrnne. & Der Ifidld. CI. West. :1 • Do. Nalf Shares... Newcastle & Carlisl Nwpt.Aberg. &llr f , Newry Newry Warrenprl' Add Rostrevor. II +0 Norfolk 2! . I all ortiln.Countie , North British Nth Dor:m Rai Deck Stock , 0., A. Stock , B Stock Do., B Guar7.77to. , N. Eastern—Rory:l. Do. do. Extension Do. Leeds Do. York North L0nd0n...., ALS. Wstrn. , Piaui stead, and City Ji North Statfor.labir S:ath Western 1t ; , S. We.mtvn. Jun< nnoatono ta,-1 Leicester +lc, Wore.. k Wolv. - 4; of t sh C c Atral icottis h Mid iani3 ropshiro Uri :a iontli Devon H;oatl: Easteru ith Wales & Riv. Dal At'k , ne , ,Wok. IStockton t Darli 'itt. , ..kt on & lir.rtlep Pall Vale.... on. Pref,. No. 1 1T ,,, ,m0s Hay. n.& R. 11.11veratonc. Z.t Lanu ,Vale of Neath ...... Waterfd. Kilkenns Naterford&Limo:' West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace . 19i 20 3a 4a GA - 7A 5 I all 5 I 3 ...... Do. B ~. . }West London iWimbledn&Croydoi .o i o FOREIGN. 1.0 41 Kott 71 -- 8 40 140 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con• in Sli. atpartill'o4 1,1 1 p 20 10 Ardennes .... 2} 24 4 , Aeig.an Ka,tn. •Jiint 31 14 ; keziers toGra.ss• sax 1 • 1 d I t-• 44 I ,ionthav,llaroda,an 1.-utroi Incts,,Seri• a I• all Do. - ••• ••• 4 ;1 Demorars • •• 11 !intcl - Rhenish . ~ -- Rs.stern of Franc- 38} ;81 33 1 1 3 ,- ) o . ‘Tow l2 -141 i Ai Zast Indian, g. sp. 211 22 211 15 )0. -, ry.,•msio• I. 20i 100 all D 0.41 p.e.8nc15.,'57 t 20 10 Gee ong • Melbou ne guar. 5 I , er c nt. a 1 Do., Lon. allot., do. ... 1 . , ad. Tk of Cauad a A 11 10 '5 I . ibo. ' l 'o 9 t Do. Cert. of Dentin. eon. into Stk. till', 7 75 • a Do. Comp. 6p.c. , do 81 84 1 14 Gt..Ccutral of Plan 5} Si, 2' Ail Gt. Indian Peninsn 201 201 20 4 ,Great Lnxembonr Constitntea Share 41 5 • Do. oblierttio, 1 3 31 11 De. re-is. • orftd. Sk. ••• At' Gt. w..t.wry or l lan.. a 4 b.a.rs 251 ).6 25i 20; Do. New 3 —31 r 1 1 4' til 1).. payable's7, with option till '55.. 99 leo .00 al Do. do., '62, p. '56 120 125 121 01 a l l Do. do., '76, p. '6O 120 125 121 Dc,. In., '73. withow uption lO7 109 ,k; • 5,11 1-lamilton ct Toront A -,.11 Do. 8 per cent. .. 120 125 "i '7 La . k., flonot. Az !lasi 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ~, 5 0 Lucca '• Pist. 5 p •c.p . nn 16 Lyons and Ge,n,-v• 91 10/11 'C 14 T•yone Meliter-r. , • -, r a ll AFOrat, gua 4 p.c. 19 191 N 10 De New t - 0., sp. c R 20 5 Do. 41 p. c. Ezten d 'q all Attria Antonia . . 7 1 6 all Do. do, New ....... 2 3 -11 all lamn: tz Liege (4-11 , intoereisnt).r..;o-i .... . .... 51 . ),0 all Do.(x te 5t I_6 all Northern of France. 8 39J 20 all D 0.20/, She. ............ 11 1 - A) all ')o. 201. 3p.C M s (rmy.B.& 10 all N orssegianTrunkPre 71 —8/ 20 all ?aria and Lyons 491 —5O 501 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 all Paris and Orleans- 49 5 1 10 5 Rome and Frascati.. ••• • ?.0 all a flys..l Danish l9 20 ' 5 all BoyalSwedish ••• ••• 4 all Do. Obligations ••• Ail Sambre and Meuse... 9•— 9 3 10 all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref. . 20 5 Seinde, guar. sp. c 1 11 • 20 all D 0... r all Southern of France ... '0 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec fA) Ai all West Panders 3l •-•.-• 4 10 all Do 51 c. Pref., 10 18 `V. &N. W. of ° rano , 331 34! 20 all West. of Switzerland ••• ••• ; 6 all Wiesbaden 20 all Z..-riland j OINT-STOCV B.A.NKB, (0 .•11 Aastralamit 100 50 Bank of London 40 *ll (ri. (101. ii.k.&Ln. C 5 0 a l. . iritish W. Amorican ... . 65i 25 5 ( ihartd. Bank et Am- par --1 p 20 4 inutd, rick. of India, Australia, & China i id 100 50 City ... - 68 100 25 Colon;a1 100 20 'Commercial of Loiri .. 2 0 * ll 7 ,,l g .'S'cot.& Ans. Cht 16 17 20 all Lond. Chart Bk of Australia l6 - 17 20 5 Oitto New 4 3d 50 20 1,-.don and County ... ... 37 i iSi 100: 50 ILnd.&E. MA k tp g.Corp par a SO l( , iTxmolon T , int q' ne!., 100 10 London and Paris—. 1i - . i d 100 2i.1 1.., , Lid. & vt,eatmingt , r ... .... ~. 44 100 l! National Pro.of Eng: .. -- 20 10 i)c. New,.......... .• • - 50 22 , Nations' of Irelaud .I ... 20 all - Now Routh Wales.... 37 - 39 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. ....... . 39 41 100 z 6 erovincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all IPo. New .. -- R I R. Aus R &On Im r r ... —» 100 50 Royal British ,.. ••• 25 all *intl. Australia .... 25 all Union of Australia.— 71 73 72 3 iDo. New. - l Si . 00 ,10. V Ow e : . 1;;;;;cictu „, .„ „, 27 Business done this day. t I Ith) 3t.1100 3t. 100 1.11 all ,14' 15 I 21i 15 15 in .4cl St. + M St. 100 ai 4; All 11l ;t.l: it. 1100 a 3t. ilOO 0 1 rt 9, 1 1.6 v, 3t. 1)(' 25 22 THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY EVENING MARCH 3 1856. 4 ..t4g1) '"' 1 1 17KKT" " Ps"" 4 14‘.. THE MAGAZINES. ever done, step by step, across the broad plains ( f Eu rve, till from their last refug‘:, that rock ol tie Atlantic tc) which they have clung lovingly, trustingly, at last despairingly, during two thousand years, the old race roust be rent and severed to make room for their tri:m phant successor, the couplet ing Scythian. Yet, though kings, piitices, 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." Lid.17.7Y44/A, c;Galn Saturday this •tay Blackwood.—Although Maga still pursues her course without the attraction of a serial story, iu pages hitherto glorified by tales like Margaret Oliphant'. " Zaidee," or Bulwer Lytton's " Cax tons," or Thomas Barham'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 A - 96 94 - 1.6 11 - 13 ii -... .4i •s• "'"' Collntrn'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 fire " to look about and see what has been done and remains to be done. The result is encouragino., 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 aia," 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 adinira tion, does no 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 retains, 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," is other words, " the narrow sea between England and France," de scribed by Napoleon I. as "the most important ferry in tho world," is of national interest, and adds amus ing anecdote to noteworthy historical 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 March. " The War in the Peloponnesus in 1820," a graphic and stirring narrative throughout, is con cluded 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 Bath, by admitting into its ranks men who have no pretensions to such a distinction, such a 3 Benjamin Hawes, the quon 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 In omitted. "It has already transpire 1 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. 1(5 ] 14 Ina l 243 107 A 1123] •N 2i - 2i 92 (.4 P - in 54 - I ••• .... ••• 132 - 134 T . ; 3 - 31 - 32 83 - 85 I St. 1100 St 1 100 2h. all :t, 5 all It. It 110 i :d 59 al) 25 all 12 311 all 2 , all St. 10 St 100 St I,s) 5 all ;t. 100 61 51 so %Inll x' all l2t all St 1 '0 8 fi all _2 '5 I al) St.' WO 100 4t. 100 St. 1100 3t. 20 At. 1...!0 Is 41' 911 3:1) . 4 „ n. 4) St. 1100 lt)() 4 . 0 all eli 5 all Al! 1(), 10 j I. t 10t► ?Al all It. 1. , It.. 11(ai It. 1100 L 2 75 a ! it. ,10 4.0 I 11 tit ilOl. l St.. 1100 St. 100 10 I all •O all all St 'l.+t: : all It. !1 , ) It !ItV It. 1 10 It. 110 t. 100 t 11,Y Itedfcra tud BletAley Bnekgbarash. Clydesdale Col, Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. R. Lin. z. 6 pc E. Un, li. Sli, Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... ... Olstr.di Dn Fr Dk & Hull & Selby Do. Share:. Do. e Shares. Do. i n "I' Preferen are n : Lon.,Til., &S. Lowestoft gr 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Dianch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Reicar. Midld. Bra if i Newmarket Bury E. G.spe N.& Do. 6 nor ct. Do. Fixeds F c Prest. & y; Do. kihr,. A Roystn.& lilt. Slief.Roth aml Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &Her S. Staflordsb Wear Valloygr 6 per cent, Do Wi Its&' lo,nrst 571 i 9 i i i 93 a d 79 1031 59t 60i 82.1 31 7t 99j 100 991 69 701 52 2 76.6 I d 13 15; 51: 21 65i 6 73 . 2 il 9 uvi 10 0} Si ari 25 Ft l .l 10 1i Pll lt. 100 It. 100 100 to all ?$0 all 25 all clii 1 all ..• 1 all Anglo Austria. Gold 10s - all Anglo Californian - 4 20 64 4ustralian 1 ati Australian Cordillera I all Ave Mario. - 1 all Baden (Gd.Dechy of ' - SO all illinuar. Iron & Coo, gl 14 British iron 3 - 5 35 26 Brazilia.ulmp.(issue , ' at 4:,(} pm.) 40 all Do. Comes Sr Coiab 2 - 20 15 D. St. Johr Del 26 - 2 1 ; Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica p - ip 4) all %."lobre Copper 66 - 69 5 1 .3olonial Gold - St. all ',upper !Ain. of Ma- 36 - 40 25 i all o. Pref. 74 p. - 28 • LC '3op.a 2 14 Foal's* - tl 20 au -16 1 all lt.NuggetVeiultg. ;), 4i all qrestt Polgooth 11 - 2i 5 all Gt Wheal Vol . tinitecli 1 • id 1 all Liberty 4 3 all Linares 64 - 71 5 1/ Lusitanian I - 1 all Mariquita . - 1 all Now Granada 1 all 'Nouveau Mende - '0 all Pontgi. & 14.11 in. 12 - 14 5 1 Port Philip - I all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney Iron l9 - 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 30 13 . 5 iantiatto de Cuba. 24 - 3 • Gs. Sort. Cons. Min, Co. n - 4/ 1. all :oath •+.ustralian. 1 all Do. Scrip g - 4 1 Do. 10 por cent Pref - • 46 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 10 9 fin Croft... ..... 41 41 28i all United Mexican 34 - 31 1 all Waller I all West Mariposa 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia - 1 all Yuba MISUBLLANFOUP.. 1,4 19 ' Australian Agric'Alt.l 25 - 26 254 t W 11 Australn. Royal h ail lu all Berlin Water Works 6i - 74 American Land 47 50 ,00 2 anc.da 4t ' r 1.. IFtryjc ;dly 1084 1094 St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug 106 - 108 1064 St. 100 Do. 6p. c. 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Tel, Scrip 1 20 all +in Registered__ 15 5 ['rust& LCe.U.Can. 11,0128 a, ' .'.n'ls 16 St en Y11 0 4 6 1 1 5 9076/4411 4 lie !It 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 no mercy from 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 Dickens• 7 --"He is a public nuisance, is he not ? Yes, sir. A convicted liar ? Yes, sir. He has been kicked and cuffed, and caned? Yes, sir. And he 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 cue of the vilest Gazettes ever published by in• famous publishers !" As for him, what does the Blackwood Reviewer not say ? He 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 .Netvgatc 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 endurance 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 cf 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 Laving his nose slit, and his oars 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—Paabgh ! The subject treated 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 Athemv, 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 able. " 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 Amens 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 w-nii nded tress. 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 cyclopedia Britannica, are followed by the' kindly notice of Sydney Smith, already mentioned. This biographical and critical chapter on the witty canon of St. Paul's and writer of " Peter Plyrnley'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 ill-timed 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 ! Dublin, University.—This number presents va rious sketches of an entertaining nature. The firs paper concludes the account of " Potemlziu, the Crimea," kc., which was commenced last month. It imparts information regarding Russia in the last century likely to meet with attention. The amus int'.. 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 atandoned 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. Ho 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.ornitted 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. Gilbert'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 idiosyncracy 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 I 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 them the instruments of all civilisation though they have never reaped its benefits. "No colonies recroes 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 Isles of the Sp, must flee before them, as they have 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 unhealtshiness, these advantages are comparatively useless. The English, French, and Germans have successively founded colonies, but a few years generally extirpates all the inhabitan's. Some of the extracts from Mr. Bard's travels fur nish' us with interesting' details on this subject. "The Political Future of England" is a criticism • i the recent French work of that title, and gives a moderate share of praise to M. de Montalem 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 de , erted 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 conclusion of properly melodramatic interest. The " Illus tratious of the Manners and Customs of the Eighteenth Century " terminate in this number, and gives soma 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 be told in the story of its hero. The description of a pilgrimage to the French Palaces, by Floren tia, is agreeably written, and promises to be highly beneficial toin tending 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 trai , eller loves to linger in recollections of Marie Antoinette and the First Napoleon. " Literary Leaflets," by Sir Natbanisl, has this month a criticism of llohn's new edition of the works of Addison. The first part of an amusing story is translated from the Danish by Mrs. Bushby, 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. Tait's Edinburgh.— 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 clue precaution on our part. What hope he 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 in 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 froth," 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 resgazine 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 Ben,ticy furnishes us with two pipers on this topic, entitled, "The Differences with the United States," and, " Central America." It does not, however, desert old friends entirely, fora little further on we meet with an article beaded, " 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. It is a tale of the last century, and Mr. Ainsworth's admirers will find in it all those peculiarities of style and incident for which he is remarkable. Dudley Costello concludes his story of " The Dock Warrants." An announcement is made to the readers of Bentley that in the April number a new tale of the times will be commenced, by the same author, entitled "The Joint-Stock Banker," and designed for the very laudable and limited purpose of putting a stop to speculation. If it accomplishes this object it will ilideed.reWard its readers for thetrouble of perusal, never in a long iife-time Co be forgotten—any more than the weird passion of Kean as Othello—or the ravishing anguish of Malibran as Amina—or the gay laugh of Mrs. Jordan—or the violin, half divine, half diabolical, of the wondrous Paganini. These who can call but one melody of his to their recollection, as they have heard it sung by him, " avec les larmes dans la voix," can believe in the sincerity of the regret expressed by Monk Lewis (vol. i, p. 113), who " was in the greatest a:zonies' the other night at Lady Done gal's," at having arrived too late—"'Pon his honour, he had come fur the express purpose of hearing me !" Every one, too, with the like pre cious memory of "sweet sounds, that gave delight and hurt not," will have no marvel when they road (vol. iii., p. under date, 7th to 10th March, 1820—" Flahault sung, and so did I ; very nervous about it. If I liar given way, should have burst out a-crying ; as I rememi)er doing many years ago at a large party at Lady Rothes's. No one believes how much I am affected in singing, partly from being touched myself, and partly from an anxiety to touch others." The duplex clue, this, to all his successes ! Elis earnestness in what he did, and his almost morbid yearning for admiration. How much he did well ! And in the doing of it what overfiewing admiration he gained —enough—and to spare ! For all which he 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 feline, not a reading and overwhelming passion.", Hence his celebrity sur vives, hardly so much in his gorgeous eastern romance of " L ilia Rookh," as 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 valid it 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) ho talks of " the bursting out of my latent talent for music," as " iu reality the source of my poetic talent, since it was merely," ho adds, " the effort to translate into words the different feelings and passions which melody seemed to me to express." A revelation one might almost recognise 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, ho " remained for hours con cealed under the table, having a small barrel organ in his lap, and watching anxiously the moment when ho was to burst upon their ears with music from—they knew not where !" This 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 he 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 ppsers 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 ! No wonder the good Irish folk about him marvelled at the wis dom stored up in that small frame, looking as it did, particularly inFantine for its age—till some cress-grained old Hibernian Cornelia would cry out with a comical sort _of indignant asperity, " Oh, he's an old little crab , he can't be less than eleven or twelve years of age"—he being then some seven or eight. Whereto a gentleman sitting next her responded, " Then, madam, if that be the case, he must have been four years old before he was born"—which reply, reported forthwith to' Tom's mother, "won her warm heart towards that gentleman for ester after," says that son later of hii fame—still Tom Moore even en in the days then to the wide world, as he was from the first to the last in his own loving household. Tom 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 Tom, and I try in vain to break her off it, because she hears her mother call nee so." The man was loving and beloved throughout ; there was some thing kindly, human, gentle, genial, be sure of that, in that large heart, yearning and yearning, ever and ever, with a hneger 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 nonogenarian Rogers—it is like a peep into urke's study, with the memorable glimpse of .the philosophic statesman lying on the carpet with the .toys and the " one child ' he too was to rear so tenderly, only to lose, in his turn, so prematurely and with such poignant anguish ! To-day, says. 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Mock.& Dar. ,5 p c. ,Do. de. do. & Hutt. g. 5 p. c. till July 1: . 7,61 W %terra. Sr • • • • • 09 101 90 -- 5 - 63 1 ~. ~- .., l 3 14~ 221 — 41.11 i c 5 97 9i • 93 2p 24 21d1 Do.. d but .we fear it is somewhat improbable. "An Essay on RAert Bell's Edition of Chaucer" enCe full homage to the f alter of English poetry. T s ory of " Going to the Shows" presents an inn ras: s ve warning against the dangers of over suspicion. Whether or not it is founded on truth, as it im plies, the circumstances though painful are ii, t improlsable, and serve 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 thok Notes" take a review of Dean Milman's " History of L ttiu Christianity," and draws from that work a series of historical portraits, beginning with Hildebrand and ending with Rienzi. LITE RATURE. THOMAS MOORE. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Right Hun. 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 unton 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 persoHal (fre quently, too, as it happens, of their more odd and whimsical) characteristics. Au 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 b. master hand—as in 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 wizard graver of Ritsch, so with the inore-than-Mivasi 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, Atm gier-street, at the corner of Little Longford-street, in the city of Dublin, almost to the date of his death, on the 26'h of February, 1852, at Sloperton Cottage, near Devizes, in Wiltshire. A span of nearly seventy-three years, within which Moore tasted so many sweets and some bitterness—this 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 Burney, 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 uo great-grandfather ! They only remembered Anacreon first of all, and then the Melodies, and then " Lalla Itqokh," and heard all the while the " voice of the charmer" singing as hc alone could sing his own songs of the heart, in his own music, to his own accompaniment. The glamour of his singing these songs of his, was a thing onto heard our door till I was much more hot and tired f my little playfellow." A picture not without its charm, we take it, for those who care to note the man of genius not merely in his hours of relax t tion, but at moments when those hours are gilded with the sunshine of natural affection. Times those in regard to which Luttrell once uttered so comically, in his ludicrous way, that delici9usly absurd lamentation—" How often in life we shou!d Ike to arrest our beaux, inornetis ; should • be sa obliged to the five minutes if they would only stop ten .1" Nearly 30 years had to roll on, however, from the time when Tom Moore sat under the Dub lin tea-table with the barrel-organ in his lap, be fore he tumbled in the hay with little Barbara in front of that cbarnaing poet's-home of Mayfield Cottage. Many parts, too, bad he to play in the interim, during his gay, ,toilsome progress up from, obscurity to renowr, many motley parts—not for getting even that a harlequin ! In strivibg to prepare himself for which impersonation he tells us he succeeded, at last, "by constant practice over the rail of a tent bed," in performing most successfully " the head foremost leap" of the hero of pantomime. A little later (1802) and the spangled skin of harlequin east long ago like a glittering slough in the dear old schooldays, no longer seems to possess any paramount attraction 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 Lon don at the Union Masquerade. A season after (1803) and we hear of his going as Lingo to,a fete given by ono 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 fun !" As no doubt he had. A little Irish boy just come to London—he was in reality no longer: for in 1803 he was getting well into his fifth season of Belgravian frolic. The spring of 1799 having witnessed his literal appearance in that character when he had come up to town, seek- in; his fortune, with a few odd guineas sowed up, by his pro?ident mother, (i. 72) iu the waisthnud 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 ho flattered himself of Shenstone at the Leasowes." Besides which he had boldly tried his 'prentice hand as another ' Thomas the Rhymer, in such overt burlesque effu sions as an " Ode upon Nothing. with Notes by Trismegistus Rustifustius !" Winning when he was only sixteen (1795), in return for a copy . of original verses " all out of his own lit ad."—what he mentions briefly (i. 33) as " the fist gai ► I ever made by that pen whisk, such as it is, has been my sole support ever since"—a prize awar 14-d by a Board consisting of the Provost and. Sol ior Fellows of Trinity, in the shape of a very hand somely bound copy of the " Travels of Anachands.” At the outset, notwithstanding his home-tritimphs and college-successes, he appeav, neverth.less, to have had no notion whatever how pltent his grey goose-quill would prove in trans laut:ns reams of paper and gallons of ink into gad sfte , a securer fashion than that of the old alchemist; : fo: we read in a letter of his, addressed to his father at the close of the century, that he meditates 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 moditik d a little while afterwards when he had oc asiM to re joice his mother's heart by tile goo . ' ti Hal s that he expected to clear one hundred guineas by Anacreon ! However this may be, " clear" them he did—and more : the open sesame was won to the treastfres rewarding the fortunate adventurer. and not only to the base metals to to got out of popular books as well as out of popular anything., but into the ex3lusive circles of fashion, the via lactea of the gay world down which float only the cre,ne de la creme ! Iwomuc't that the young Irelauder who, at eleven years of age, was screech ing from a window over his father's shop . as Grate tan and Fitzgerald were carried by in triumph on their joint election for the city of Dublin—[Moore, rendering himself, he tells us (i. 13, ?tete), "so conspicuous by the enthusiasm with which I waved a largo branch of laurel, that I either caught or t v fancied I caught the particular notice of Grattan, and was, of course, prodigiously proud in -cense quence"]—insoinueh, we say, was the young: Irish man of letters successful in gaining admission to the higher circles of the metropolis, that he who at thirteen was proud of being taken for a few m nutea on the knee of Nipper Tandy, at twenty-one was basking in the smile—was actually livin g and breathing in the sublime- pees Vince of his Royal Highness,Geo •ge, Prince of Wales. Yes—positively enjoying the civilities, almost the familiarities of— Fern 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," ho 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 lie s.as very happy to know a man of my abilities [the italics are Moore's own] ; and when .1 thanked him for tho honour he did me in permitting the dedication of Auacreon, he stopped me and said, the honour was entirely his in being allowed to put his naive to a work of such merit." [What is it the Scotch say ? " Ciaw me, claw thee !"] "He then said that he hoped, when he returned to town in the winter, wo should have many opportunities of enjoying each other's society," &c., Moore adding, as it were with a smack of the lips, while he laments that the am brosial interview cost him a now coat—" Is not all this very fine ?" Eleven years after he is still in the blissful illusiow 7 -still hugging himself in the luxury of being countenanced by writing to his mother in a letter dated Friday, June 21, 1811, " The Prince spoke to me, as he always does, with the cordial familiarity of an old ac quaintance." Ali ! poor human poet—you, were under the glamour then of a Princely eye, and had net an inkling of anything at all like vaticinstion. No lyrical cry came from your heart then like that articulated only the other day,' in burning words, by our own manly-hearted, and yet no less worn•inly-hearted, Charles Mackay— " Stand up, man ! stand ! God's over all. Why de you erin,, , e to me, Why do you bend the knee, And creep, and fawn, and crawl l Stand up, man ! stand !" Not a notion had you then how soon H.R.H. was to dwindle down into Fun 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!' Ab, well—the days of enlightenment were to come aeon enough. Let us leave the poor bright:-eyed young Irish poet for a while contentedly in the first flush of his entrance into the loftier regions of fashion—when he could find eonsolation even for tin inopportune addition tfoyhalissntaoiblo,yr—'s bill in the be courtly palavering of a “ was fairly running a muck at the behest of my Lord Moira, after what he himself ultimately' COW. fessed to be the " will o' the wisp . " of his life, a sham patronage, leading not by a hates breadth to the smallest modicum of advancement. (To be continued.) THE PEACE CONFERENCES. Lc Nord of Brussels publishes the following On the 25 . th of Feb. an armistice of five week' was decided upon in the first Conference, after a general ex . :Amulet . oa of the principal questions to be solved. They were all briefly touched upon to ascertain whether they contained any serious difficulties of a nature to impede the course 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 new frontier they wished to establish between the sea a ,d the mountains, because there are no mountains on that side, but only plains. "A 'ew words ware a so said respecting the fifth pro w.thout any dissent arising of a nature to canes anxiety. A committee, consisting of the French, English, and Austrian Plenipotentiaries, is appointed to make a dralght 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 p asse d over calmly and courteously. When the meeting broke up the Plenipotentiaries IS t roll e d for a few minutes in the gardens of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where they formed into groups of friendly converse. At 5 o'clock they returned to their embassies, whence they sent de spatches in cipher to their respective Governments." THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAT.—Captain Wynn has just made his report to the Government as to the state of this railway between Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lowestoft. 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