The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed without any particular alteration in prices, but the supply was good. The export demand was princi pally for Boweds, from sd. to 6d. per lb. The sales were 8,000 bales-1,500 for export, and 500 on speculation, comprising, in addition to Ameri cans, 250 Pernam and Moranham, 61,d. to 61d. ; 100 Bahia, sd. to 6d. ; 300 Egyptian, sd. to ; 1,500 Surats, 4d. to sd. ; and 200 Sea Islands, ls. to is. 3d. per lb. The Railway Share Market ruled dull, and prices were a shade lower than Tuesday. An interesting annual statement has been pub lished of the imports and export of sugar, and its consumption in the United States, for the past Year, showing that there was a deficiency in the crops of that country compared with the produce of 1854. In 1855 the consumption of home grown sugar was 185,115 tons, and in 1854, 23 4,444 tons ; and of foreign sugar respectively, 19 4,052 tons, and 150,854 tons. The crop in Louisiana is stated to have been less by nearly 50 ,000 tons than that of the previous season. Total Consumption of foreign and domestic in 1855 was 3 79,197 tons, and in 1554, 385,298 tons, being a decrease of 6,101 tons. It would appear from these returns, and those from other sugar-growing coun tries, that during the past year production of sugar throughout the world does not keep pace with the demand ; and it is evident that the recent advance in prices was more the result of a diminished supply than pure speculation, as was generally en tertained. This fact should stimulate the energies of sugar-planters in our colonies, and it would be advisable to extend the culture of the cane. Even at home it would - be well if our farmers paid more attention to the cultivation of beet root for pro ducing sugar, as it is known that in France there has been a decline in its production ; while ti e Prohibition against distilling from grain has caused 41 1 active demand for inferior sugars for that Purpose. _ _ According to the official returns the 6 weeks' a'rersge price of wheat is 765. 6d., of barley 38s 6d., and of oats 265. 3d. per quarter. The sales last t peek were 80,398 quarters of wheat, 95 , 314 of D afloy, and 19,285 of oats. _ _ The - half-yearly meeting of , the London and County Bank was held to-day, when a report was read, showing that the net profits of the bank for the half year, after making due provision for bad and doubtful debts, amounted to 34,0051. Bs. 10d., Which, with other items from last account, left a disposable sum of 52,9741. Os. 4d., out of which t he directors recommended a dividend of 5 per eent. for the half year, and a bonus of 5 per cent. (equal to 15 per cent. iu the year), besides a gra tuity of 19 per cent. in the salaries to the clerks of the establishment. It was proposed to limit the reserve fund to 100,0001., at which it is now ar rived. The report was adopted. The Report of the Committee of Buenos Ayres ... ,'endholders, to be presented at the meeting to uay, states that no arrangement has yet been made b the Government of the republic for the adjust %eta of the arrears of interest upon the debt. 1 t iS mentioned that the finances of the country have greatly improved, that a large kmount has be en expended on public works, and that when re presentations are made by Mr. Giro, the commis tbner, or Mr. Parish, the consul, for a settlement, e answer given by the Government is always that the period is not convenient. Such a want of honesty is disgraceful,in the extreme, and it is to a hoped that before long our Government may be in duced to interfere to an extent that will have the desired effect, not only in this case, but in others equally discreditable. There has been increased firmness in the Eng lish Stock Market, and an advance of about t- per cent. has occurred. The arrangement of the account i 8 ill progress, and another small failure has been announced on the Stock Exchange. Consols, for money, have been 91i to b , but have since been 91 to 918. For March the prices from 91i4 have seceded to 911 The New Three per Cents. are 91k to and the Reduced 91} Bank Stock is 212 to 214. Exchequer Bills have risen to Bs. and 3s. discount. India Bonds are Bs. discount. . The Foreign Market was very inactive. Spatish 3 per Cents, have advanced to 43j, and the De ferred to 24 and 21f. Turkish 6 per Cents. rule dull at 931 3 and the 4 per Cents. are 1001. Peru- Ilan Dollar Bonds are 60 ex div. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61- 7i ; Mexican, ; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 7 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 9 ; Russian 5 per COnts., 104 6 ; ditto 4/ per Cents., 92 4 ; Spanish 3 Per Cents., 42/ 3/ ; ditto Deferred, 24 4/ ; ditto Certificates, 61 ; ditto Passive, 4 51. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, aro in round figures as under : 1856. 1855. Great Western North-Western south-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern -- 15,667 11,925 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,153 7,751 East Lancashire 5,378 4,483 Vest Hartlepool Glasgow and South-Western 5,270 4,76 S Scottish Central 2,566 2,665 Railway Shares are quiet but generally at en hanced prices. South Western have again been fluctuating. North Eastern, Eastern Counties, and Lancashire and Yorkshire are higher. The Foreign lines are inactive. The Foreign Shares are dull, and the Banks are Without any alteration of importance. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom the Oficial List.) Tlngin.ie done. Bank Stock - ----- 3 p e r Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 5 1 Ne w 3 p er Cent. Annuities . ........ .... 92i i 2 11 New n per Cent. Annuities 74i Lon g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860_ Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 li; 11-16 i India. Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, tinder :1007 3 Consol e ;or Account, 11th March. 9 l3iliii Exchequer Bills, 2 ri.. !.:1900. .... 8 3 2 6 d i's6o small 8 3 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent 571 Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Grenada Now Active, 1. per Cent. Rexican 3 per Cent. - Ditto Account 2Ol i Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. 2l i Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent -- Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOOl Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable In London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Guil, — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 95i 41 per Cent. Dollar Bonds THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, money Ditto, March 11 9ll 5 THE CARE OF EBENEZER DAVIB.—Thin case was further heard yesterday at the Insolvent Court. It was adjourned till Friday, to allow time for the peaceable settlement of the proceedings, GENBRAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS.—Pursuant to the provisions of the Election Petitions Act, 1848, the Speaker has appointed Sir F. T. Baring, Sir John S. Pakington, John Wilson Patten, Esq., Robert Palmer, F.sq., Henry Arthur Herbert, Esq., and T. H. Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Esq.. to be members of the General Committee of Elections far tho present session. THE LATH COLLISION IN THE EMI TITAXES.—The aron Osy, steamer, Captain Pearse, of Antwerp, which came in contact with the Dolphin, steamer, Captain Green, for Newcastle, on the river, in the Lower Hope, On the 31st ult. (as already reported in this journal), has been taken to Messrs. Scott Russell's yard, Millwall, to repair damage. The Dolphin steamer has been got afloat off the Kentish shore, where she was run on the mud to prevent her from sinking, and is now lying along side the General Steam Navigation Company's repairing works, at Deptford. She appears to have eeceiveil con siderable damage. ED • only other s, re ancet enied Great ranee Owls, ie in. nee. Irows ell as • of its ud is ort of a re mself mess, the ire in very' Intial renal skill, irtue s not ►rtiea )od a not a by fished le to Ire use? Ige--• Tred ryel- °nal, ma, Epg' if it at in There point case, .con- nigh, ch is le of "side. Bel , Till with ings, fresh lubi- Frood Ile.- - from w 0 1: pn of New iug A LCCPt 3 fa- , the the I for -In from lg. (s.), 'eon, ► vre. lg. ling► iter pver, 1 the )ped r re• .0 itt h)ck lay ivo nt, is re IL PERIODICALS. Little Dorrit. No. 111. By Charles Dickens. Better and better. Charles Dickens is surpass ing himself in " Little Dorrit." The new number for February is a masterpiece. Among its profu sion of merits it is difficult to particularise even the most remarkable. From the exquisite delinea tion of the heroine in chapter nine, to the demo niacal portraiture of Rigaud in the eleventh, it is all wonderful. The intermediate chapter—the tenth—being, of all three, the most wonderful. Wonderful as a humorous satire upon the whole system of our muddled Constitution and muddling Government. The Circumlocution Office isa thing to be remembered. The Barnacles, especially the Tite Barnacles, are personages we believe not very easily to be forgotten. They are types of a class— the limpits of the body politic—creatures dimly hinted by the Greys, the Elliotts, and the Rus sells. Old men-of-the-sea sticking to the shoul ders of the Siubad of the nations—like Tite (very tight) Barnacles. Here is Boz's sketch of Tite Barnacle, senior : " Mr. Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious, and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. He wound and wound folds of white cravat round his neck as ho wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and collar were oppressive, his voice and manner were oppressive. He had a large watch-chain and bunch of seals, a coat buttoned up to inconvenience, a waistcoat buttoned no to inconvenience, an unwrinkled pair of trousers, a stiff pair of boots. He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. He seemed to have been sitting for his portrait to Sir Thomas Lawrence all the days of his life." How possibly, however, are we to give his inimi tably delightful pencilling of Tite Barnacle, junior, without transferring bodily page after page into our columns from this glorious third number ? Here is the first forshadowing of his entity in the few first preliminary touches : " The present Barnacle, holding Mr. Clennam's card in his hand, had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Such a downy tip on his callow chin, that he seemed half fledged like a young bird ; and a compusionate observer might have urged, that if he had not singed the calves of his legs, he would have died of cold. lie had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes, and such limp little eyelids, that it wouldn't stick in when ho put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much." Besides these, there is yet. another sketch of a perfectly different specimen of these same übiquitous Barnacles—in the person of the airy young Barnacle, the • engaging young Barnacle, the bright young Barnacle, the light in-hand young Barnacle, the touch-and-go young Barnacle, ready for any little bit of fat that came to hand"—a " dashing young Bar nacle ; in a word, likely to become a statesman and make a figure." Then there are the celebrated Stiltstalkings—" better endowed in a sangnineous point of view than with real or personal property" —intermarried with the Barnacles. Jumbled up with whom, in our recollections of the Circumle eution-office, are—Mr. Wobbler, paper-knife in hand, and his mouth full of bread and marmalade ; Jenkinson, the outraged messenger, roused from his consumption of mashed potatoes and gravy be hind the partition ; the gentleman polishing his gun-barrel on his handkerchief, and a number of other worthies, including number one, number two, and number three each of them astonishingly characteristic. Mr. Lindsay, the shipowner, not having forgotten his own " Peter Dick," we pre sume, will be the first to appreciate their marvel lous truthfulness to the originals. So let us com mend every master-touch in this extraordinary "Chapter X., Containing the whole Science of Government," to the attention of everybody, right and loft, here, there, and everywhere. It is sug gestive, we take it, almost of a Revolution, so painfully does it reveal the whole bungling idiotcy of our present system of administration. A system conducted, as Mr. Dickens reminds us, upon the great principle of How Not To Do It ! Hear him ! Every word has the seed of an inestimable truth in it. Every sentence has its golden value. The story told in this one remarkable chapter of "Little Dorrit" has its universal applica tion—its manifold significance, beyond the reach of anything like exaggeration ! Beginning with its general outline of the Circumlocution Office with its finger at once "in the largest public pie and the smallest public tart"—and ending with the particular commemoration of the infamy of Daniel Doyce the Inventor, the innocent rascal in whose uncomplaining patience, good, honest, warm-hearted Mr. Meagles discovers such extraordinary aggrava tion ! Apart from what is actually presented to us in this new nuntSer of "Little Dorrit" for Feb ruary, we cannot but discern through it, by a sort of presentiment, one or two wonderful creations to be summoned into existence a little later on by the genius of our great novelist—foremost among which we have a foretaste of something (in two senses of the term) " out of the common " in one Plornish the Plasterer of Bleeling Heart Yard, already seen in a sort of glimpse, but as yet to be formally intro duced. It were idle, however, merely to anticipate the good things in store for us in "Little Dorrit" when we have actually so much in hand that is literally, we do believe, in many respects quite matchless and unapproachable. For instance— Maggy ! A wonderful creation ! Granddaughter to old Mrs. Baugham deceased. Tutored by the application of " broom handles and pokers. A great awk ward clumsy being of eight-and-twenty — imagining herself to be no more than ten—and, tenderly, reverently, loving poor, tiny, Dorrit as " Little Mother." Here is her portrait as touched in with a few magic pen-and-ink strokes by the hand of the greatest of all living delineators of character : She was about eight-and-twenty, with large bones, largo features, large feet and hands, largo eyes, and no heir. Her large eyes were limpid and almost colourless ; they seemed to be very little affected by light, and to stand unnaturally still. There was also that attentive lis tening expression in her face, which is aeon in the faces of the blind; but she was not blind, having one toler ably serviceable eye. Her face was not exceedingly ugly, though it was only redeemed from being so by a smile ; a good-humoured smile, and pleasant in itself, but ren dered pitiable by being constantly there. A great white cap, with a quantity of opaque frilling that was always flapping about, apologised for Maggy's baldness; and made it so very difficult for her old black bonnet to retain its place upon her head, that it held on round her neck like a gipsey's baby. A commission of haberdashers could alone have repotted what the rest of her poor dress was made of ; but it had a strong general resemblance to sea-weed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked par ticularly like a tea-leaf, after long infusion." O the exquisite beauty and gentleness shadowed out of the relationship in which Little Mother and poor, bald, goggle-eyed, demented, draggled Maggy stand in regard to each other ! No wonder there are glimmerings of a strange love growing up in the heart of middle-aged Arthur Clennam for Little Dorrit, humble needlewoman though she is, child though she seems, niece though she be of Dirty Dick, sister of vagabond Tip, daughter of the de graded, white-haired, Father of the Marshalsea. Another extract we must give froth' this same mar vellous number of "Little Dorrit." It is the de scription given by Mr. Dickens of the messengers, go-betweens, and errand-bearers of the Marshal _ _ " The shabbiness of those attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bon nets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair. All of thorn wore the cast-off clothes of otker men and women ; were inadoup of patches and pieces of ether people's individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper. Their walk was the walk of a race apart. They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the cor ner, as if they were eternally going to the pawnbrokers. When they coughed, they coughed like people acetic-' toned to be forgotten on door-steps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental dis turbance, and no satisfaction. As they eyed the stranger iu passing, they eyed him with borrowing eyes—hungry , sharp, speculative as to his softness if they were accredited to him, and the likelihood of his standing something hand some. Mendicity on commission stooped in their high shoulders, shambled in their insteady legs, buttoned and pinned, and darned and dragged their clothes, frayed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breath ings." Scattered all through the number, too, there are little casual " touches" that the pen of Charles Dickens alone could have produced. As where Mr. Cripples's pupils, having allowed Arthur Clennain and Little Dorrit to pass by while they are gazing at them in open-mouthed silence, celebrate their getting away to a safe distance by " bursting into pebbles and yells , and likewise into reviling, dances," Ice. As where Arthur,Olennam having ar rived at the house in which Frederick Dorrit lodges, finds the door-post "as full of bell handles as a cathedral organ is of stops," and thereupon stands dubious as to which might be " the clarionet stop. ' As where the old orchestral player lingers over his pinches of snuff, as over everything else, " feebly, sparely, and slowly," and yet " with a certain little trickling enjoyment of them playing in the poor worn nerves about the corners of his eyes and mouth." The great Ob server of the Are shines out, moreover, i n littl e casual allusions, not by any meals to be passed by as insignificant—as in reference to the "suppleness of thumb" noticeable in Daniel Doyce, in his trick of " tilting up his hat at the back every now and then, as if he were contemplating some half-finiahed work of his hand, and thinking about it," or again in " that under tone" in his way of speaking, indi cative of the mechanic accustomed to " consider and adjust with great nicety." Then Barnacle Junior's " Oh, 1 say. Look here !" and his anxiety (seeing Clennam's brown face) to know whether "it's anything about Tonnage ;" and his sticking his glass in his right eye " in that inflam. • niatory way that the eye began watorin dread. fully ;" and his "evidently going blind on his eye-glass side, but being ashamed to make any further alteration iu his painful arrangements ; and his " I say. Look here. You stick to us in a devil of a manner ;" and his semi-paralytic "Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know ;" and his staring at the intruder "until his eye-glass fell out, and his putting it in and staring at him until it fell out again !" What shall we say of all this, but that as we read it we lay the number down, every now and then, and fairly have our roar of laughter out, until compelled at last, like Scrooge's nephew, to get up and stamp ! The thing is altogether delicious. Charles Dickens only could have written it—and remembering that we accept it from his hand all the more gratefully. As we do even that hobgoblin of a last chapter in which Rigaud, the diabolical, is " Let Loose" to the dismay of the good folk of Chalons, and the particular horror of poor John Baptist Cavaletto. L ITER AT UR E. CHARLES MACKA.Y'S NEW POEMS. The Lump of Gold ; and other Poems. By Chas. Mackay. Routledgo and Co. A cordial welcome is due to any new volume of poetry from the hand of Dr. Charles Mackay. Not, however, as he himself (judging from his title-page) appears to imagine, by reason of his being the author of "Egeria," or the celebrant of " The Le gends of the Isles," or the bard of " The Salaman drine." Rather than this, let us say at once, almost in a manner despite his authorship of those longer poems, and, be it added, because of such minor effusions as " The Voices from the Crowd," and " The Voices from the Mountains" his humble lyrics of the heart—national songs and English melodies. For the sake of these, and neither for his " Egeria," nor his "Salamandrine," do we accord an eager greeting—a greeting of genuine and unaffected satisfaction at its appear ance—to a new book of verse from the pen of Dr. Mackay. Because we' recognise in him a song writer whose voice is always' pitched in the most natural key in the world, never quavering off into an affected roulade or an incorrigible falsetto. A. voice sweet and dulcet—with the tears in it some times—but evergenial, and manly,and out-breathed. Dr. Mackay, moreover, be it confessed, frankly and without further delay—we are grateful to, for inasmuch as he allows his meaning to be perfectly comprehensible. He understands, as by a sort of instinct of good taste, that politeness te a reader which induces a writer, whether of verse or ofphi losophy, to be lucid—according to the happy dic tum of Arago. A matter of some moment, it must be admitted, in this age of mystical spasmodics, when rhymed stanzas are twisted into all imagin able and unimaginable convolutions, until one is fain to cry aloud in anguish with honest Hotspur— I had rather be a kitten, and cry —mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would nothing set my teeth on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry. Dr. Mackay, at least, in the midst of all the din of the jarring mysticism in which our poets-of-the day are so tumultuously involved, to the torment ing of our ears, and the bewilderment of our un derstandings, is al ways at once melodious and comprehensible. Besides which he is never mawkish --but, on the contrary, his tenderness is everdistin guished by the characteristics of a masculine sensi bility. As such—namely, as musical, as pathetic, as comprehensible—his poetry is very welcome to us : particularly when it comes to us in the simple forms of the lyric and the ballad. And of these his now somewhat numerous volumes afford us hardly less of a variety than the pack of the delec table knave Autolycus—" He hath songs for man and woman, of all sizes ; no milliner can so fit his customers with gloves ; he has the prettiest love songs for maids, with such delicate burdens of dil dos and fadings," et cetera ! Do we not all re member them, " thundered," if not " to the tune of Green Sleeves," to some no less popular melody, from the tuneful fancy of Henry Bishop or of Henry Russell ? Many and many of them scattered broadcast over the laud by this time, "familiar in our mouths as Household Words," and dear to our hearts as the tones of old friends ♦ibrating tenderly upon the inner chords of our remem brance. It were idle to particularise among fa vourites so freshly and immediately in the general recollection. For the sake of these dearly-appre ciated favourites, for his own sake as the author of them, we greet Charles Mackay, on the instant of his coming before us with his Lew volume in his hand, right heartily as with a veritable benison. As he himself has sung— " Give me your hand--you shall, you must ! 1 love you as a brother." A brother to us all he has become, long since, with that large heart, and that warm grasp, and those kindly human eyes of his. Viewed dispassionately, " The Lump of Gold," is little else than another manifestation of the genial nature for which Dr. Mackay has long been remarkable. It is a new ebullition ef almost all his nobler qualities as a lover of his kind, as a poet-reformer, as e. literary philan thropist. In its root idea, he has followed the axioinati , !, advice of the sage—xafpow yvwoi—he has seized his opportunity. That opportunity, a theme of universal interest, the lust of gold at once in the new world, and at our antipodes. The plot is readily enough indicated—springing as it does from Edward Aubrey's going in quest of wealth in Aus tralia. Having discovered a monstrous lump of gold, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the fa mous diggings of Ballarat— "A fiendish lump ef gold"— the hearing about the mere dimensions of which is enough to make the mouth of a Croasus water, to warm into new life the ashes of an Elwes, and to curdle with sympathy into a sort of auriferous slag the glittering sands in the honor, of old Pac• tolus ! " The . ' , old was long, and broad, and thick, flee statue of a man 1" A monstrosity of wealth—immovable ! Aubrey is in despair lest any one else should discover it. Listen to the sequel—the turning point of the , whole narrative—as it is described by the author himself. Premising, before we give the quotation, , that Heseltine is the bosom-friend of Aubrey, the gold-hunting hero of Ballarat. Aubrey is hanging over his treasure one day, when he is thus startled : There burst on the air a scornful laugh, And a hand was laid on mine; I started hack as from a snake, And saw 'twas Heseltine. " So greedy, Aubrey ! may, be just, The treasure's mine and thine ; I've watched thee in thy moody walks, And seen thy ramble ends : Too much for oue, enough for two, We'll share it, and be friends." " Friend of a robber who dogs my path !" I answered him in scorn ; I uttered words that stung his pride, Too bitter to be borne. Taunt followed taunt—he drove me mad— He struck me on the face; And quick as thought—but thoughtless all, Except of the disgrace-- I raised the mallet in my hiand, And fella him on the place. Hormr stricken at the imagined murder of his companion, Aubrey flies from the accursed laud, and returns across the ocean home wards—remorsefully, gloomily, despairingly. And here follows what we conceive to be the finest of all the imaginings in the whole of this imaginative poem of "The Lump of Gold." "The fiendish lump of gold" takes life to itself, as it were, out of the horror of the fancied murderer. Telling the tale himself, he ones : A sudden frenzy raised my hair — I knew not what I did ; But I thought the golden fiend arose Frain the ground where it lay hid, And chased me with convulsive steps Over the land and sea, Eitting beside rae when I slept., Eating its bread with me ; Mocking me with its yawning eyes, Raising its yellow hand, And driving, driving, driving me on, Over the see and land. Adding, as by an awful illustration of the phan- tom : A hideous likeness of myself, A torture to behold ; Part was throbbing flesh and blood, Part was senseless gold. It stood between me and the sun— It fouled the healthy air— I looked to heaven, to fly its face, And lo ! the fiend was there. I looked to earth, and at its feet I saw a yawning pit; It grinned and pointed with its hand, And said " Thy bones will fit." Pursued by this golden shadow of the monster in " Frankenstein," Aubrey returns to the little Surrey village of Micklethorpe, to have the ghost of his despair laid by the hand of Parson Vale, whose daughter Lilian has been all the while Ed ward's wife, when Heseltine, to the delight of the man who imagines himself to have been his assassin, returns in perfect health and frank forgiveness from the mammon-growing tracks of Australia. So all ends happily—fieseltine, bent at the close of the poem upon returning to Australia, to seize, on behalf of himself and his friend Aubrey, upon the buried " Lump of Gold," the lump having been literally buried by him, very ingeniously, prior to his departure from Ballarat, under a grave-dike hillock, surmounted with this epitaph : " Here lies a sinner—trouble not his bones." Such is Charles Mackay's now poem of " The Lump of Gold"—a poem the principal charm of W4ich igi: cliwoveratie is tho gent l 9 lidiains THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7. 1856. tenderly pencilled in one sweet and graceful stanza— The quiet ripple of hqr smile Revealed the peaceful The mellow moonlight of her eyes Her sympathies refined ; And when she spoke, the audible charm, • Was Beauty for the blind. O.oasionally in the melodious versification there is, all unconsciously no doubt to the author, the vibration of au old familiar strain. As where (p. 18) All his heart's history, All his thought's mystery— is the echo of Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, 1;e — ilk Hood's exquisite " Bridge of Sighs." Or again, as where (p. 83)— And cursed, in my deep, deep agony, The gold for which I'd slain A. life that all the gold in the world Could ne'er bring back again— chimes upon the memory in the closing syllables like the iteration of Tennyson's lamentation— Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, 0 s ea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Repeatedly we have reason to regret a violation of grammar as distressing as the ellipse of a participle —for the sake, obviously, of smoothing the words " trippingly to the tongue" in the glib hurry of a merely rhythmical arrangthnent. " Tradition itself has forgot them" (p. ,114)--" The Pharaohs are forgot" (p. 219) —" That civil discord might have broke" (p. 226) are flaws not to be passed by entirely sub silentio. Even though it b e b u t mo wincing with a wr y f ace , Hp wincing or at th e so ur ness o f b w a r e p cannot ebi b g o l f i e a l an unripe gooseberry. Nov and th en w e come as me a li t ta t ri he ly ; upon a charming little " touch of nature" in the incidental descriptions. As when it is written (during the account of the Parson's sermon against Mammon worship)— So vast the silence as he spoke, You might have heard the grass Rustle and wave to the fitful winds, And the bee in haste to pass, Sounding a trump like a martial 'call On a clarion of brass. You might have heard the sparrow cheep Mid the yew-berries, juicy red, And the long rank aettles singing a dirge Over the nameless dead. A noble sentiment rings out through the music of that simple utterance— _ The form of the worship Is rind on the bole, The fruit of religion Is Love in the soul. Several of the minor poems appended to the " Lump of Gold," and forming, in truth, the prin cipal part of Dr. Macka7's new volume of poetry, are remarkable for their freshness of feeling and the tender melody of their intonations. One, written at Venice in the April of 1855 (from which piece, indeed, our last extract has been taken), is entitled "The Festival of St. Marc." Another, dated from Vienna, in the same month of last year, celebrates " The Old Magdalen of St. Stephan's." An effusion, by the way,- in which a Catholic de votee is made to sing as we would wager no Catho lic devotee would ever dream of singing—. Oh, Mary ! hear me when I speak ; Oh, Virgin Mary, Angelmilue : without any reminiscence whatever of the prophetic " omnes generationes beata me dicent." Another poem, coming immediately afterwards, and appa rently written in Paris as long ago as 1853, a poem entitled " The Column of Luzor," talks of Louis Philippe, of all men in the wide world, as "the Great King"—an adjective so applied altogether passing ear comprehension. Here it is that we find our author writing— Speak home to their business std passions, as by a repetition, of the famous phrase " coining home to their business and bosoms," a phrase which the readers of 1 ote,3 a,nd Oteries may be in terested to learn, originally occurs in Lord Vera lam's preface to his immortal " Essays." In the fugitive piece called " Panic at the Bourse," wo cannot but recognise through the lines— Then a stifled rumbling, Then a crash and fall, — Down comes Babel tumbling, Dome and towers and all : a recollection of the close of the nursery song " Hushaby Baby"— When the tree rocks The cradle will fall— Down comes baby Cradle and all. As in the two stanzas headed " Returning Mes sengers," it would be difficult not to detect* para phrase of the wise old sailor's axiom, that " Curses, like Mother Cary's chickens, come home to roost." The verses " Ou the Portrait ..ot Queen Victoria," are written throughout in the courtly spirit of a Laureate, warmed into enthusiasm by potations of Malmsey and crowned with an odoriferous chaplet of golden pieces and bay leaves intermingled. As the lines " Man to Man " are penned from first to last, there is no other way of exproming it in the true spirit of—Charles Mackay. Answer if it be not so—the nervous opening syllables ! Stand up, man ! stand ! God's over. all. Why do you cringe to me, Why do you bend the knee, And creep, and fawn, and crawl ? Stand up, man ! stand ! With which manly, moving adjuration ringing in his memory, the reader of " The Lump of Geld, and other Poems" may, as in the happiest mood and at the aptest moment, close for awhile this new volume by Charles Mackay—a volume, be sure ! not by any moans to be closed for over afterwards —but meanwhile, in the intervals of perusal, to be deposited, as snob a " Lump of Gold ' deserves to be, among our book-treasures, as another nugget of literature. THE NIGHTINGALE TESTIMONIAL. A meeting of the promoters of the Nightingale fund was held in Edinburgh on Mon lay, under the presidency of Sir John 141'Neill, surrounded by a number of emi nent citizens of Elitiburgh. On taking the chair, S:r John 11P.Neill took occseion to advert to the fanciful notions that had been circulated in order to check public sympathy in behalf of the contemplated testimonial. The following were among the remarks which he made upon this subject :—" Statements have gone forth attri buting Miss Nighti nga l e as belonging to almost i i ma i gfriable den om i na ti on of Christians. o seers e d r e y s cbn The truth I believe to be, that Protestant in her opi nions, firm in her Protestant belief, she is yet of too large and catholic a mind to regard mere sec tarian differences, or to att ac h muc h i mpor t ance t • forms. I believe that she is capable of acting with persons of every denomination who are influenced by pious and Christian motives. And she has proved it. The task which she undertook was one of ex treme difficulty ; the persons who were placed under her directions belonged to different countries and to differ ent faiths—some were Episcopalians, some were Pres. byterians, and some were Roman Catholics. By the force of her genius, and the liberal and catholic stamp of her v i ews , she has been able to fuse that heteroge neous Jesse into one coma en body, acting cordially together for the accomplishment of one good work. Her own opinions are not recently formed ; long before this w.r was thought if while it was yet doubtful whether any such institution as we are now proposing to insti tute should be formed in England, Miss Nightingale had prepared herself, by careful study in Germany, for the task which she had proposed to herself, even in her yoath—a life of usefulness, following at a humble distance, as far as human frailty would permit, the example of Him who went about doing good, and healing the sick. (Applause.) At an early age she proceeded to Germany, and in the Protestant institu tions of Prussia acquired the iestruction in attendance on the sick which at that time there were no means of acquiring in England. On her return a pamphlet was anonymously published, but well understood to have been written by her, from which I will quote a single passage. It is the conclusion :--` Shall the Roman Ca tholic Church do all the work ? Has not the Protestant the same Lord, who accepted the services not only of men, but also of women ? The harvest is r ip e . Wh ere are the sick and the poor wanting ! Let those women of England, who sit in busy idleness, look at Germany. There are your sisters all at cork, Christ in their midst. Let Him not say, I bare called my English hand maidens, but they would not answer. I stood a their doors and knocked, but they would not open. These were the sentiments which she bad enter tained for years before the call of her country car ried her to the East. I feel satisfied of this, that Miss Nightingale is herself too settled in berreligious opinions, too firm and too earnest in her purpoee, to permit her efforts, which are intended for the welfare of her species and the service of her God, to be narrowod and degraded to any sectarian or party purpose whatever. I may say that, in all the conversations I have .had with Miss Nightingale—and they have been many—l have never yet heard her propose or suggest .anything which, if practicable, was not desirable ; and & have never heard a vain or thoughtless proposal from, her, but, on the contrary, her mind appears to me to• be distinguished by a strong practical sense, which regulates all she does." Among those who afterwards addse used the meeting was Bishop Terrot, who said that, eve e x if he considered Miss Nightingale as sebiawatical or hers qical in her opi nions, he should not alloW that to be a reason why the country should not express its gratitude for, the good she has done. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE RECORDER.- —ln the New Court yesterday, a man, named Gem •ge Tillon, was convicted of burglary and sentenced by t he Recorder to six years' penal servitude. The fellow, on hearing the sentence, drew from hie pocket a large lui •np of coal, and threw it, with the greatest force and pr, 'cieion, at the bead of the learned gentleman. - Fortunately the Re corder escaped the intended injury. The prisoners are for the future to be, searched before bein , laced in the 419.1 c, E! ECTION INTELLIGENCE. LEEDS. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, who had vacated his seat on accepting the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was yesterday !Wednesday) re-elected for Leeds without opposition. Prior to the eleCtion the right hon. gentleman met a numerous party of his constituents at breakfast, at the - White Horse Hotel. The nomination took place at 11 o'clock, in the 3 ard of the Coloured Cloth-hall. Mr. Baines was proposed by Mr. Alderman SHAW, and seconded by Mr. Alder man WILSON. After being declared elected, The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., rose, and was most warmly applauded. He said :—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, the only regret I feel in this day's pro ceedings is this—that I should have been, however innocently, the cause of bringing you out in weather such as this, and from which some of you may suffer, I fear, serious inconvenience. (A. Voice : " Never mind, we're happy to meet you." " Hear, hear.") Well, I am sure I feel happy to meet that gentle man. We are met to-day to perform one of the most im portant duties that can devolve upon Englishmen. By a very wise and salutary principle of the constitution, whenever any member of the House of Commons ac cepts office under the Crown, the immediate effect is, that he has to vacate his seat, and thus has been given to the constituency who sent him originally to Parliament the power of declaring whether or not their confidence in him continues. If you, as a constituency, have rea son to think that in accepting office he has been influ enced by selfish, unworthy, or corrupt motives—if you think that he has played false to the great principles that he was electeel to represent—you have the right to reject him when he offers himself again as a candidate for re election. This is the principle of our constitution, and I think you will consider, with me, that it is a wise and salutary one. By that principle I am here again standing before my friends and fellow-to amsmen :horn I have represented so long in Parliament, and the honour of representing whom in Parliament I consider greater than any other honour that has fan upon me. (Ap plause.) Here I stand to ask any rasa if he can impute to me any unworthy, selfish, or corrupt motive in taking the step I have, and accepting office ? (Hear, hear, and applause.) When I was invited to take a place in the present Administration, with a seat in the Cabinet, it became my duty to consider very (carefully how far I should be promoting, or otherwise, those prin ciples which I knew most of you had at heart, which I had professed originally to you, and which I had been sent to Parliament to advocate. (Hear.) Now, with regard to all domestic policy I do not propose to go into details here, because you had an opportunity for merly of hearing my sentiments on these subjects. I expressed them to you with the utmost distinctness, and with all candour, when I was first elected ; and they have undergone no change since. (Applause.) I have oonstantly acted upon them. I have never swerved one hair's breadth from the principles on which I had the honour of receiving your confidence ; and I be lieve they aro already perfectly well known to you all. (Hear, hear.) The question, I say, which presented it self to my mind, when I was called upon to join the Administration was this—how far I should be giving effect to the principles which you know me to entertain? With regard to all questions of domestic policy, I could have no doubt, when I looked at the composition of the Cabinet, that I should be giving greater effect to the principles I have always espoused when I joined that Cabinet. I saw that it consisted of men who were advocates of civil and religions freedom, and therefore there could be no inconsistency in joining them. In such a Cabinet it will be almost invidious to mention names ; but there was one man whom I could look to with great eonfidence, and whose name never fails to elicit the approbation due to a long life of unblemished honour and patriotism—l allude to the Marquis of Lansdowne, who though not now holding office, nevertheless bas a seat in Lord Palmorston's Cabinet, and giving it the benefit of his high character and counsel. (Hear, hear.) Lord Lansdowne is a man who for fifty years has lived in the sight of the public, maintaining a character of the utmost possible consis tency, whose character has been unblemished, whose conduct has never been suspected in the smallest degree, and who has ever been the champion of those princi ples and liberal tendencies which meet with your appro bation and mine. (Hear, hear.) And this gave me the strongest assurance that those principles would receive the concurrence of the Cabinet which I was invited to enter. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Gentlemen, there was another man—unfortunately now passed away from us—whose presence in the Cabinet had great weight with me. The late Sir William Molesworth was well known in this borough. You once elected hint to represent you in Parliament ; and I believe a more honest and enlightened man did not exist. (Hear, hear.) He was a member of this Cabinet up to the time of his death, which took place about the time I joined it. His presence in the Cabinet had great weight with me, and I think you will concede that it also had some weight with you. (Applause.) Gentlemen, on questions of domestic policy Ido not trouble you further ; but I come at once to that which presses most upon the minds of all men—a matter which bas arisen since I filet ad dressed you in this place ; for none of us then dreamt that war was at hand. (Hear, hear.) liTow, however, we are engaged in a war. Gentlemen, I have never had an opportunity of stating to you what my opinions are of the origin of that .war. You have a right to know what these opinions are, and I am delighted to have an opportunity to state these with that unreserved confi dence and frankness which should always exist while we re connected as at present ; for as long as I seek to represent you, you should knew who and what the man is you are seeding to Parliament. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the war, then, I have been of opinion from the first that that war was a strictly just and necessary one. (Great cheering.) I believe it was a war forced upon this country by the unprincipled and dangerous policy which Russia had thought fit to adopt. The immediate object of that war, as you know, was the protection of the Turkish empire against the aggressions—which had then become perfectly plain—on the part of ffeeseia. It was abundantly manifest that Russia was intending, with as little delay as possible, to take possession of Constantinople. This, though involving the integrity o the Turkish empire, and the independence of an ally of ours, would not have been the only conseqoonce of the success of Russia ; because the immediate consequence of her taking possession of Constantinople would have been that it would have given to Russia such a prepon derance in Europe that it would have brought the greatest possible danger on the rest of Europe, and particularly on those states whose advanced civilisation and free institutions would have been most likely to be obnoxious to a power like Russia. Upon these considerations, I think you will concur with me in regarding the present as a just and necessary war on the part of this country. (Cheers.) Therefore, 'when I was asked to take a place in the Administration, I thought my sentiments were in unison with those of the Cabinet in respect to the origin of the war. (Hear.) And now with regard to its conduct. I saw at the head of the Cabinet a nobleman who about a year ago was called by the almost unanimous voice of the people of this country to form a Cabinet for the purpose of carrying on the war with vigour and efficiency. The public voice pointed out Lord Palmer ston—(hear, and applause)—as the fittest man for the post —and he was so distinguished, not only from the extraor dinary abilities he possesses, but by his gallant spirit and his unrivalled acquaintance with foreign affairs, acquired during a long life passed in the transactions of our foreign affairs. (Hear.) I had every reason, therefore, to be lieve that the head of the Cabinet would carry out the war upon those principles which I believed to be right, and those principles were these. At the time I joined the Administration there seemed to be no prospect of peace. There was no hope that the infatuation of our enemies was likely to give way ; and it was under that conviction that I expressed the opinion, in the address which you may remember I put forth at the time, that the true course for England to pursue was, to prosecute the war with the greatest energy, decision, and vigour, as the truo means, not of prolonging the war, but of bringing about a peace, and of bringing about a pace as would be worth having. Now, gentlemen, we might have had a hollow and unsubstantial truce—discre table in itself, and to be broken as soon as it suited the convenience of the enemy to break it. That, however, would have been putting a most unsatisfactory conclu sion to the war ; and therefore I thought the only course was to carry on the war with vigour, decision, and energy. These were the principles which I enter tained when I took office ; these were the principles which I knew were entertained by the Cabinet ; and I thought there could be no reason against my join ing a Cabinet with whom I agreed upon principles of foreign and domestic policy. In November, when I came into office, preparations were going on, and have been continued, to enable us to prosecute the war with the greater energy ; and I am happy to tell you that there never was a time in the history of this country when both the land and naval forces in this country were in a state of greater efficiency than they are at this moment. The preparations for war are not relaxed, but are proceeding with vigour. And now, gentlemen, we come to a particular period of time when a new state of circumstances has arisen. You are all aware that a short time ago Austria thought proper to submit to Rus sia certain propositions as the groundwork of a general pacification ; and that Russia had thought fit, some what unexpectedly, to accede to these propositions. The question then immediately arose in our Govern ment what was to be done in regard to these pro positions ? lam quite sure that whatever any of us may think of war, or the necessity of prosecuting it with vigour while it lasted, no man could think that the British Government would have done their duty if they bad turned a deaf ear to any propositions which seemed to involve the chance of attaining a safe and ho nourable peace. It was their duty to attend to these propositions, to weigh them carefully, and to give effect tothem, if they would secure the only peace which the Government, the Parliament, or the people of this coun try would ever be likely to accept—a safe, a tasting, and n honourable peace. (Hear.) Well, gentlemen, nego tiations are about to be commenced. I may assure you that, so far as England is concerned, these negotiations will be conducted in the meet frank and straightforward manner. (" Hear," and applause.) England has never had any sinister object to gain b y the war. (Hear.) She undertook it on principle, and will She maintain o it nto in will i the same spirit, and also , on prin ci p le, g these negotiations with a disposition to do that which is eight—to aim at no sinister advantages for herself, but with an endeavour to carry out the greatobjifecit tu tsw r e nout had in view in the outset. (Hea r, bear.) And —as I hope it may—that the great object of the war can be gained by the negotiations, I ant sure you will think with me that the war ought to terminate, and that we should be restored to those blessings which we cannot value too highly—the blessings of peace. But this peace must be made upon such terms as will insure its endur ance. Such a peace it will be the anxious endeavour of tho Government to bring about"; any peace but thatthey will not think it their-duty to accomplish by any means whatever. Negotiations are about to counnence, as I have told you—to commence under the best auspices —to commence simultaneously with the fullest preparations for war, if war is to be carried on. (Loud applause.) There will be no relaxation of our preparations, no re linquishment of our gains in the war, and no delay of any kind, which would be very much to be depre cated. The ne,o i Cons will be in the hands of the best statesman that can be selected—the Earl of Claren don, the present Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Gentlemen, I have expressed my opinion frankly on the causes of the war, and I wish I could speak more positively in regard to the future ; but I think you will have gathered from what I have said the principles which I think ought to. guide the Government—and which I think will guide the Government and the coun try is the negotiations and in the prosecution of the war, if the war must be continued. I hope you will think that I ought not to go into the particular condi tions upon which we ought to insist. (Hear.) I hope you will think that that is a topic upon which I ought not to'speak, and on which I ought not to be questioned. I have told you the principles on which the Government will be guided, and I hope these principles will meet with your approbation. (Hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have really nothing to add upon the topics on which I have spoken to you ; but I should is doing injustice to my own feelings if I closed my address to you without ex pressing the obligation which I feel more and more every time I stand before you, for the continued kindness I have received at your hands. To those from whom I have received these repeated acts of kindness I feel mere grateful on this than perhaps on ahy other occasion, as also feel the honour the greater. (Hear, hear.) I tender my thanks to my honourable friends who have moved and seconded my election to-day in such kind and eloquent terms. I thank my political friends whom I now see before me, and many of whom, I am proud to say, combine also the character of per sonal friends. I thank them for being here to-day, and for so receiving my nomination. (Applause.) I feel ex tremely thankful for the confidence which they have placed in me ; and I also thank those who, so far from having generally beau political supporters of mine I must rank as political opponents, that they have thought proper to abstain from opposition. (Hear, hear.) I duly appreciate the motive by which they have been actuated, and which does them great honour. They have ab stained at this crisis of our history from anything which might have the appearance of divided councils among ourselves, or of crippling or embarrassing her Majesty's Government in the important duties which that Go. vernment has now to discharge. That I understand to be the motive by which they are actuated, and to them I offer my thanks, along with my own friends, on the conduct which they have thought fit to pursue. I hope that neither they nor any other portion of the consti tuency will have reason to regret the termination of these proceedings. If I can benefit you, command my best exertions, I shall shrink from no labour to dis charge my duty to you in Parliament, I shall do all in my power to serve you, and in so doing I shall know no distinctions of sect or party. (Applause.) Having said thus much, I have now only to thank you for the kind ness with which you have received me, and the honour which you have conferred upon me—an hononr which I consider the highest that a man can receive. (Cheers.) The meeting soon afterwards separated, and the right hon. member returned to town the same afternoon. ROCHESTER. The nomination of the two candidates for the reprs. 'mutation of this city,—namely, Mr. W. H. Bodkin and Mr. P. Wykeham Martin, takes place to-day in the Guildhall, and the polling to-morrow. There is no doubt that the contest will be the closest which has been known in Rochester for many years, the friends of both candidates feeling confident of success. The popularity of Mr. Martin has been daily on the increase, and, his political principles being in accordance with those of the large majority of the electors, his friends are perfectly satisfied that he will obtain a majority on the day of election. A large and crowded meeting of the Liberal electors was held last evening, on which occasion speeches were delivered by Mr. Lee, M.P. for Maid stone ; Mr. C. W. Martin, of Leeds-castle ; and Mr. P. W. Martin ; and a resolution unanimously passed pledg ing the meeting to support Mr. Martin. Mr. Bodkin has been busy canvassing, and has received additional promises of support. The Mayor has issued notices cautioning the electors against resorting to bribery and intimidation. Fitzgerald that his orders were to keep the volunteering open for a week. Major Fitzgerald informed Captain Scott that he denied the power of the Government to issue such an order, and declined having the volunteer ing kept open beyond the evening of the 2Sth, on the ground that a week's volunteering was in fact turning the regiment under his command into a drunken rabble for that period, and that his desire to preserve the disci pline of the regiment and the peace of the town in which he was quartered alike forbade his giving his sanction to such proceedings. Major Fitzgerald further informed. Captain Scott that in the event of his persisting in try ing to keep the volunteering open for a week he would refuse to sign the discharge.of any man who volunteered, and would confine his men to barracks until after Cap tain Scott's departure. Captain Scott then wrote to Limerick for fresh instructions, and received orders to complete the attesting of the men who had already vo• lunteered and return to Limerick." THE NEW PROMOTIONS IN TIE ARMY AND NAVY. In the Gazttte of Tuesday appear the names of some 20 or 30 military and naval officers, most of whom have been promoted for their services, either in the Peninsu lar or in the present war, to the second and third divi sions of the Order of the Bath. The British public will recognise among them with satisfaction Major-Gener a l William Fenwic Williams, the gallant defender of Bars. The following brief account of the services of the most distinguished of those officers who have been thus ho- nourea by her Majesty will not be out of place. It will be observed that some of the honours now bestowed are rather tardy recognition;;lse;;;;inthe field : General James Wallace Sleigh, C. 8., attained the rank of full General in 1855, and is Colonel of the 9th Lancers. He entered the army in February, 1795, as Cornet in the 11th Dragoons, became Lieutenant in the same year, a Captain in 1798, and obtained his majority in June, 1805. He had previously served in Flanders in the campaigns of 1795 and 1796, and was present at the actions in Northern Holland and the Helder, on the 10th and 19th of September, and 2d and 6th of Oct o b er , 1799. Having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant . . Colonel in 1809, he was again ordered on foreign service, and served in the Peninsular campaigns of 1811 and 1812. He commanded the 11th Dragoons at Waterloo, towards the close of which battle the command of the Fourth Brigade devolved upon him. Attaining the rank of Colonel in 1819, he proceeded with his regiment to India, and comma n d e d th e C ava l ry Di v i s i on at t h e s i ege of Bhurtporei in 1825 and the following year. He ob tained the Waterloo medal and the war medal with one clasp for Salamanca. He became Major-General in July, 1830 ; Lieutenant-General in 1841 ; and was ap pointed to the Colonelcy of the 9th Lancers in 1839. Ia 1810 he was nominated a Companion of the Bath for his services in the Peninsula and India. Lieutenant. General Richard Goddard Hare-Clarges, C. 8., entered the army in 1796 as Ensign in the 14th Foot ; became Lieutenant the same year, and Captain in 1303. He served in Egypt under Sir Ralph Aber _ • cromby, in Hanover under the late General Lord Cath cart, and in Spain under Sir John Moore, where he ren dered good service during the retreat to Cormna. He was on the staff of Sir Thomas Graham (afterwards better known as Lord Lynedocb) in the Walcheren Ex pedition, and Assistant-Adjutant-General of a division in the Duke of Wellington's army in the Peninsula. He received the gold medal and one clasp for Neville and Nive, and the silver war medal, with nine clasps, for Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Barossa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, 6alamanca, the Pyrenees, and San Sebastian. In 1813 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and that of full Colonel in 1831, became a field officer in 1841, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1851, and succeeded the Hon. General Meade in the following year as Colonel of the 12th Foot. BrLadier-General William Fenwick Williams, whose name is so familiar to our readers for his gallant defence of Bars, was born about the year 1809, and educated, we believe, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from which he entered the Artillery as Second Liente• want in 1825. Two years later he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and to that of Captain in 1840. Young as he is, comparatively, in the service, he has considerable military and diplomatic experience, having been employed in Turkey from 1840 to 1843 in the latter capacity, when he was sent as British Com missioner to meet the Turkish and Persian Plenipoten tiaries at Erzeroum, and took part in the conferences preceding the treaty signed at that place in May, 1347. In the June of the following year he was appointed British Commissioner for the settlement of the Turco-Persian boundary. In May, 1846, he received the brevet rank of Major for his military and diplomatic services in Turkey, and the brevet rank of Colonel in March, 1848, for his political services at Erzeroum. In December, 1852, be was honoured with the Companionship of the Order of the Bath. In August, 1354, while the British Army was at Varna, he was appointed her Majesty's Commissioner with the Turkish forces in those parts, with the local rank of Colonel in the army, and while so occupied he was rai, , ed to the local rank of Brigadier• General on the ltth of December last. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard S. Dundas, C. 8., is the next brother and heir presumptive to Major-General Viscount Melville, 1( 0.h., who is at present General in command of the Scottish district. He is second son of the late Viscount, by his wife, the daughter and co heir of Richard H. Saunders, Esq., M.D. He was born at Melville Castle in 1302, and entered the naval service in 1815 ; he acted as private secretary to his father when First Lerd of the Admiralty from 1828 to 1830. He was engaged in the early part of the . Chinese war of 1841, and received the Companionship of tke Bath for his ser vices on the coast of China. Ho held the post of Super intendent of the Deptford Dockyard for a short time in 1851.2, and in December, 1852, was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty by Lord Aberdeen, a post which be continued to hold under Lord Palmerston, until he was appointed to the command of the Balticfleet in the spring of last year. Sir lx. Maclean, Commissary-General, is also of Scot tish extraction, being the son of one of the magistrates of Dysart, North Britain, and captain in the local militia. He entered the Commissariat service in 1812, and served in the Peninsula and South of France till the close of the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 ; thence he proceeded to America, but, returning to France, was present with the army of occupation from 1815 to 1818. He was subse quently employed in the same capacity on the West Coast of Africa, in Canada, aed the West Indies, and while stationed at Sierra Leone became a member of the Exe cutive Council there. He afterwards served in Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), and was made a Commissary-General for his services there. In the same capacity he afterwards served at the head-quarters of the forces in the field during the Kafir war of 1852-3, and accompanied the expedition across the Orange River to Flatsberg. He received the honour of knighthood early in 1854, for his African services, immediately upon his return to England. Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., whose elevation to a baronetcy for his services in the siege of Sebastopol we briefly mentioned yesterday, entered the Rayal Engineers in 1798, and served in the blockade of Malta and sur render of Valetta in ISOO, and also in the campaign in Egypt of 1801, under Sir R. Abercromby, including the capture of Alexandria and the attack on Rosetta. He also took part in the Peninsular campaigns, including the retreat to Corunna, the passage of the Douro, and the affair of Salaruonde, when he blew up Fort Concep tion in the presence of the enemy. He was also present at the battle of Busaco, the retreat to and occupation of the lines of Lisbon, and the siege of Badajoz in 1811, the action of Elbodon, the siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, the second siege and storming of Badajoz, the siege and capture of the forts at Salamanca, the battle of Salamanca, the advance to Madrid and capture of the Retiro. He was also wounded at the siege of Bur gos. He was present at the battle of Vittoria and the sieg,e and storming of San Sebastian, where he was again wounded. He also took an active part in the siege of the Castle of Sebastian in September, 1813, as well as in the passage of Bidassoa, the battles of Nivelle and Nive, the passage of the Adour, the blockade of Bay onne, and repu:se of the sortie. He afterwards served in the American war, and was present at the attack on the lines before New Orleans in January, 1815, and at the capture of Fort Bowyer. Sir John has re ceived the gold cross and one clasp for 13adajoz, Sala fovrteStourige: a s o, an c d iud t a n d e silverm anca, war a n d medalthe w o i t t h h e r t h P r e e e n i n o l s a u s l p a s r Rodrigo, and Nivelle. When the . war broke out i n 1854 Sir John Burgoyne accompanied the forces sent out in aid of Turkey ; and ' when the British army landed in the Crimea and sat down before Sebastopol, it was to Sir John Burgoyne that Lord Raglan in trusted the conduct of the siege. I n A pr il of last year he was superseded by Sir parry J ones , an d soon after wards returned to England. Th e U n i vers i ty of Oxfor d c onferred .upon him last year the honorary degree of D.C.L., and at the same time he received from the Sultan the Order of the Medjidie of the first class, and was also appointed t o th e C o l one l cy o f t h e R o y a l En gineers. Sir Joh n B urgoyne ' s serv i ces , h owever , are not entirely of a milit ar y c h arac t er ; in 1849 he was appointed Inspector-General to the Metropolitan Com missioners of Sewers, having for several years previously held the post of Chairman of the Board of Public Works in Ireland. He has, also, since 1845 held the appointment of Inspector-General of Military Fortifica tions. A very large sailing . ship, called Arthur the Great, is appointed to leave Southampton, on the 18th, with Go vernment emigrants for Geelong. She is 1,389 tons burden. No ship is allowed to take more than 400 NEWCASTLE. The election of a member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Newcastle upon-Tyne took place on Tuesday morning in the Guildhall, in the presence of the Mayor and a large portion of the electors. After the usual forms, Mr. Alderman Hodgson pro• posed Mr. George Ridley as a fit and proper candidate to represent the borough. Mr. Isaac Lothian Bell, of the firm of Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell, seconded the nomination. Mr. Watson proposed Mr. Richard Hart. Mr. Thomas seconded the nomination. Mr. G. Ridley (Mtnisterialist) and Mr. Hart (Radi cal) then addressed the electors. The Sheriff now took a show of hands. A large num ber was held up for Mr. Ridley, but a ninck greater number, especially in the body of the hall, for Mr. Hart. After a short delay the election was declared to be in (a -1 your of Mr. Ridley, and thus the proceedings terminated. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Dragon, 6, Capt. Stew art, C. 8., eras undoeked at Portsmouth, after refit, yes terday, and the Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Crofton, was put out of commission. A heavy south-westerly gale blew all day yesterday at Portsmouth, and nearly stopped communication with the Spithead fleet. The sea was very rough, and squalls of rain frequent ; an unusually high tide flooded the lower parts of the shore last night. The steam transports Ilolyrood, N 0.77, and Eglinton, No. 116, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Crimes. The report of the loss of her Majesty's steam-sloop Polyphemus in the Baltic created a very painful sena tion at Portsmouth (where she fitted out) yesterday. She was built at Chatham in 1840, was of 800 tons, and 200 horse power. Commodore Christopher Write Superintendent of the Dockyard, Chatham, having been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, continuos to hold his appoint -1 ment until the return of his successor, Ca p t. Geor g e Goldsmith, of her Majesty's ship Sidon. There aro now s.men-of-war on the Irish station, un der Admiral Sir G. SarLorius, a part of the Baltic fleet sent there to winter, at the requisition of the citizens of Cork. Their names and stations are as follow :—The Russell and Hastings, 60 gun-ships, at Queenstown ; Edinburgh, 60, at Dublin ; Meander, 50, iu the Shan non ; and Hecla frigate, at Waterford. Long-service and good-conduct medals having been forwarded to head-quarters of the Royal Marines at Woolwich, were yesterday presented at parade, in the barrack-square, by the Commandant, Col. Brown. The recipients of these medals were Quartermaster -Sergeant Daniel John Ryan and Privates Jas. Hobbs and Sam. Jarrard. Quartermaster -Sergeant Ryan was entertained in the evening by his brother sergeants and his com rades in their mess-room. During the last few days a considerable increase has been made in the number of labourers employed in the various departments of the Arsenal at Woolwich. Some idea of the vast amount of labour performed in that esta blishment, where upwards of 9,000 hands are constantly employed, may be formed by stating that the consump tion of powder yesterday in preparing ammunition for cannon, independent of small-arms cartridges, exceeded 46,000 pounds. Besides the large number of shells cast in this establishment, contracts with the Scots's, York shire, Liverpool, and other foundries are on a very ex tensive scale. 2,000 of these shells are loaded and pre pared daily, and 200,000 musket cartridges. The build ings for the standard foundry and the shell factory are progressing rapidly ; the spacious area in front of the carriage department having been cleared, the foundation walls were commenced yesterday. Twenty more guns and mortars have been added to the trophies at the en trance of the Arsenal grounds ; some of them are heavy iron guns of large calibre, and of a most singular ap pearance. The Dial-square now presents a novel spec tacle, having two spaces enclosed, which contain large numbers of Russian implements of war. The following notice has been issued :—" The new scale of half-pay for Naval Instructors—First entry, 36/. 10s. per annum, or 2s. per day ; after three years' service on full pay, 511. 155., or 3s. per day ; after 10 years' service on full pay, 82/. 2s. 61, or 4s. 6d. per day; after 15 years' service on full pay, 91/. 55., or ss. per day ; after 20 years' service an full pay, 127/. 155., or 75. per day, with leave to retire." Orders have been issued from the Horse Guards for 260 of the Coldstream Guards and 224 of the Scots Fu silier Guards, with the customary complement of officers, to hold themselves in readiness to embark early in the ensuing week on board the Indus, at Portsmouth, for active service in the Crimea, bark for orders em orders to leave the garrison at Chatham, A ss istant-Surgeon Grant, 7 0 th Regiment, is under :_e i c n od ent isst e la India, to join the bead - quar ters of his regi in t ment. were ers The following promotiodnnisirndy epp s o n made yesterday at the . A Rea, Alfred J. Veitch, S am . to be Masters —Geo r g e Turpin, William J. Rid dell, Wm. Laurie , F. w D. Wayth, D. E. gpeer, Charles F. Cooper, and Gilbert filbert E. Green, Master to the Coquette ; E. Green. G W. H. Fawckner, Second-Master to the Porcupine; James wars l e y, Second Master to the Otter ; John Palmer, Second -Master to the Arrow ; Wm. Smith, Acting-!taster to the Vulcan; N. B. Denneys, Assist ant-Clerk to the Trusty ; E. Rees, A ss i s t an t-Cl er k to b e Lightning. Government emigrants. [Anyzansmizsr.) The meet inveterate liver com plaint and diarrhoea, which had resisted all medicines --- for years, yielded to Du Barry's delicious Revalenta. MILITIA. Arabica Food, w hi c h r emoves indiges tion (d y s p e psia), The Royal North Glouc es t ers hire Regiment last week flatulency, constipation, nervous , bilious, and liver coin. gave 96 volunteers. Th e 54th, 21 s t Foot, the Marines, plaints, cough , asthma, onsumption, a nd debility. Our old and Artillery seemed o n thi s occasion to be the favou- friend the g reat Indian tr2othavellMarer, Major Edie, writes rite corps. The r eg i men t i s under orders to proceed to- as follows : " London , ch, 1852.—Dear Sir, s most eminent Having suffered fearfully for two years from an enlargement morrow to Pembroke. Notwithstanding a large number of men have volunteered during the last few months, the of the liver and an inveterate diarrhoea, brought on in India and China, and having tried the advice of th regiment is still about 500 strong. professional men in China, India, and at home, without any The following additional particulars have been pub lished in connection with the recruiting in the West York Rifles, now doing duty on the Irish establish- Capt. Wraughten, of able to lift my arms from the lion. E. I. C. ooTtlave:2,:nult than gradual decay, I Was perfect t n the brink of the Service, when went :—" Major Fitzgerald, commanding the West me to try Du Barry's excellent Revaleuta Ara e b l i 'e ca eo F ul o ili od en a d u ed d ,thisi deli m m ol u i s th. „ o l o ici is ul t k h e e perfect restoration of my health York Rifles, having intimated to the Major-General ,to discard the drugs was then taking. commanding the Limerick district that he was prepared to allow any men of that portion of the regiment at C,,r low to volunteer into the line, Capt. Scott, of the 9th Regiment ; Mr. Wilson, Royal Artillery, and Staff-Sur geon Gore, attended at Carlow on the 23th ult. to re ceive any men who wished to volunteer. The men hay- Iwllitsua sufferers to 'follow my example. any inquiries. I am, Sze , In canisters, slbs. 11S. • free, on receipt of post- The result of eating . eculiar pleasure inrecommending w t Isbell be happy to answer 101 1,1 E, Major, H.M.S., Unattached. ,ofccebso.;d22s. Barry /lbs. carriage Co., 77, Regent-street, London • F er o . rtnu a m rry Mas u u ß , a nd Co., rry ad ing been addressed by Major Fitzgerald, 95 at once Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly • Fortnum, at o 60, a Grace , stepped out of the ranks, of whom 52 were finally passed chureh•street ; 33J and 451, Strand ; '4, Cheapside ; 6S by the medical officer ; the remainder were re j ected for , Cornhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 65, Charing-eroll4 64, very triTial defeats. Captain scott theaindornaed Major Upper Baker-atreet ;63 and 150 k Ozfordltroot•