The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

• . THE SUN, I_,ON DUN , • ••••••••••••..I• , •11.........•••••••••••••• ......' ...._ . LINES .. aS ED If • IX EI , tr.;‘,M• a Ls. MONEY MARKET SHARE MARKETS. - (TIIIS DAY.) Letallik. I Ciogln: :-rte... i.tletnoes AND ea. 'in , . tea d. U 17 ; 4 ' 1,71 4 Company Saturday, this day. Ire firm COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAYS. -.-. * -.......- ▪ Tho --.....-.. ! Bletehloy ~ N. rives. .., - spring CITY, Two O'CLOCK Ehr. Paid. RAILWAYS , CIOSill: Prices Bustness done St. 100 Buckghamsb - . L.&N. W. 94 - 96 ' was in I 1 Saturday this day St, 100 Clydesdale Jt.. 'Calocion... 94 - 98 Vie Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday ,_______ _______- ... -, 25 all Col.StourVy. E. Un. ti closed at the extreme rates of Friday, but with St. l toe. kneoteen...„.. ~„ ... 25 27 ter for I • Sud. and Hal. E. C..._ ... - .., t 23 c4lA.mbg. Nottng. Bout A Eastn. Junet„. e. The More activity ; speculators anticipating a better 41 ---• 4fi St. lasi E. Lin. e. 6 pe Gt.Nrti,e. ... - .., es have demand next week from a rise of prices in the ,0 all 11 %n olfast & Ballvmonft. ... -- . 5 all E. Un, H. Sh, E. Count. ... ... .•• St. 100 Glas. Barr. &,,Caldonian. * United States' markets on the peace news. The 1 .: 3 i all slru. leg. W , lve rh s Neils. Direct ••• --- .• it week Stour Va ley 8 - 81 St. 100 Do. Now__ Do sales were estimated at between 8,000 and 9,000 11 - 1 ) i 13irIK e ihd. L mesh, 4 rtere of 2F; all Glstr.de Dn. Fr Gt. \Tem ... - ~, bales (2,000 for export and 1,000 on speculation), Cheshire Junet l6 -15 inseed, 1 ,1/ all , io. Chesh. 4 Birk tOo all Hrtlpl. Dk & Yk. New. 25,179 c° reprising 230 Pernam and Maranbam, 6d. to - £5O and 1;25 Cons 13 -14 Roil way ..... & BeTW. ... .... 6 1d. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. to Gid. ; 400 Egyptian, N. 22 19 Do., £2O. ..... - 8 45 all , lyth & Tyne origina' 5:1 all Hull & Selby Y. &N lif 104 •- 106 25 all Do. 6 Shares. Do markei t° 9 1:1. ; and 2,000 Swats, at 4d. to 41d. The 1.?? all Do. 1 Shares. Do ... .- ~, 1 £25 (hod. at .£45 . ••• - --- 124 all Lon.& Grooms S. Baste , 13 - iSi of the Rs'ilivay Share Market was quiet, and quotations st. 100 I dristol and Exeter._ 85 - S 7 t. The 55 - 554 551 4 2j) all Do.Preferonce Do 231 - 246 were rather easier than on Friday. St. 1-00 1 - !aletionian. St. 100 Lon., Til., &S, Peto it Co 1073 - 1126 11. All 10 61. 'Calm, and Cal digs() • - - Accounts from Egypt mention that the crops 121 - 131 13 St 100 Lowestoft gr. tations this 5 s all Chester 4 Holyhead. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... - ... . Most season are particularly good, in consequence 5) all Cork and Bandon... ••• - ••• ;ore, 20 all i Black, do Face. ... - - St. w 0 Do. 6 per ct. Do ••• ....... ... and to of the abundant flow of water from the Nile upons , all Manch. Bxtn, L.& N. W the 20 18 ;Cornwall and Ma lock & IBdid, 2. - 1. The agricultural lands. During last season the 10 all Do. A me in- G overnment was afraid of a dearth in the country, 10 8 Do. B Redcar Darlingt. ... - ... ( 10 1: Crie f Junction ••• - and prohibted the export of grain for a short time. 50 4A Doblindaßolfut , lnne 4 - 2 St. 100 Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 91 - 93 which • 61 5,f Newmarket T his caused them, on the subsiding of the waters '5 all Dun. P. & Abss. hie. - ... :'s cur- 12 - 13 Bury E. (4.5pe En. Conn. p - tp d i n November, to encourage the husbandmen to St. 100 East Anglian . 50 all N.& Est.s p.e. E. Count. 55 - 57 }.O all Eastern Counties.. ex tend their plantations this season, and now Xt. 100 w•est. 'Mien, & lath 3 0 --32 :',O all Do. 6 per ct. D 0. ,, ••• - ••• 50 all Do. Fixetls pc Do barley, that the crops are far on in ear, it 25 ot. 1 11: Do. , Do., B. Stott ( , New A 20 -22 t 5 all Prest. &IN ye. L. & N.W. ..• - ... ▪ The i s calculated that there will be 3,000,000 hectolitres 25 10 East Kent - .. 124 all Do. 1 Shre. ADo o f grain and cereals Sf all kinds over and above St. 100 i'llst Lancashire 7l -73 St. 1. 0 Roystn.& Mt. [Gtlforthn ... 25 1 81 Shef.Roth.andiLancash& ,he late St 100 Vint u-gh& Glasgoe 52 - 51 t he consumption of the country, so that Egypt is 10 . all l Edinb.and Peobles 9 4 -9/ Goolog.sp.e. Yorksh. ... - , I trade likely to export largely during the present year. St. 100 ti:dirt.Pri,t, &Dna& 22 - 24 10 9 'Forth & Clyde Jim ) ... - ... 10 all Shrows.&ller. T. Brassey 71 - 8 12 91 S. Staffordsh. M.MClean 3 -24 d 9 mGd to This circumstance, with the probable opening of 50 all Furness ••• 50 all WoarValleygr Stoekt. & - • •• the R uss i an por t s in the Black Sea, will tend to 20 all Do.: Extension.. ... - - ..: 6 per cent... Darlingt ... - ... 25 all Do Do 32 - 33 k eep down the price of grain at Marseilles and St. 100 IGlasgow&i3. West. , 82 - 86 St.lloo Wilts&rSoinrst (ItWerrtn B3 - 85 10 all 'Great N. of Scotlnd. 61 - .7 peas, at other markets ou the shores of the Mediterranean, St. 100 [Great Northern__ 90 - 91 91 2 PREFERENCE 3 IiAR Ea. 3. Ilven should the present tendency to rise in the St. 100 Do., A. Stock 174 - 76 7.54 Bt 100 Do B Stock 123 - 125 123 4 4 , 1 St. l 100 I A berdeen ........ ...... •• • --• •• . W estern continental grain markets continue. '' B. St. I 100 I Do. N 0.2, 7p. C... ••• - •• St. 130 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) 104 - 106 re to 7416 Advice; from Panama state that the Golden St. 1.00 Great Western 55 • L5ll 58 4 i 74 St. 1100 Do. Debentures BO -- • 85 7z5 at: illythandTynelOPei 23. 25e Gate had arrived at that port from California with St. 100 Do. Stour Val. Rao 5 Gna. Stk. - 60 c. pref. (issd.at 501. ... - ..• 24s 29e 1 , 9 76,928 dollars of bullion. The most satisfactory 12 all Irish South-Eastern _ St. 1.00 Brie. & Ex. 4p.c. St 92 - 94 21s 24 s accounts haw, been received from the gold fields. 50 all neaster k Carlisle 74 - /7 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares... •.. - ••• 221 253 161 14710. Thirds 6l -71 „ m St. 100 Caledonian £lO 95 -97 261 3'e There has been an abundant supply of water, and 16] 8 !Do. ' New Thirds ...... 61 - 711 r 15 all Chee. &Ho. Gu. 51 pc 154 - 161 34s 38s co nsequently plenty of work ; and a large yield is St. 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 81 ••-• 814 9fi all Do. do. Pref. No. 2. ... - ... ss• 44 3 3 1 D. WetsEidingUn. ... - ... 2s all Do. do. Prof. No. 2 ... - ••• 32s 363 expected. In the agricultural operations of the States 20 ' • all Liv.Crsny.&Southpt - - •• 64 all Cork &Eandonslp.e. .., - . tits 373 . 64 all Dun • Prth .4 Aber.J. 54 - 6 38s 423 the results are likewise cheering. Not only are the Ili all 'London & Blackwall 61 - 7 44e 484 f armers able to grow sufficient wheat for home St. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. 97 - 98 97 4 10 2E. Anglian Cis. A Sh. - - ... 61s 67s St. 100 Lend. and N. Westn. 100 - 1004 100 i 1 11 St. !WO Do. do. Cl.. B6p. c. ... - ... 49s 50 4 co nsumption, but there has been an export to 20 16 :Do. Fifths - Par St. ;100 Do. do Cls. C7p. C. ... - ••• 494 50 3 . 64 all Eas.Co.Ex,speNo. ' 4- I P pm akustralia and New York during the past year. 10 51D0.101.5h.,M&8...0 Id - part 12A 2} Do Elehtbs if - 6r, all Do. No. 2. .l -,- 6 Pin T he total quantity raised in the State in 1855 was 10 all Do. Now 6 p. c. St 12 - 124 it" 100;Lon . don ' andS. - Weslii: 914 - 9 1 24 921 3 x d k were 3,52 5,441 barrels, and the export was equivalent 50 all !Do., .£5O - 31 20 all East Un., G. 6 P. c- - - -- Ia the t° 1 42,566 barrels. The export of gold during the 40 all Do., £4O - ... 10 all Do. I. Debentr.Sh. ••• - ... 79, in Utile period was valued at 45,182,631 donara ; and 25 all 0., £4 . ... - ... 25 all Lndndrry.& Ennlsk . • - kit. all Do. do. 4 per cont... - - ... St. 100 Eamt Lane ash. 6p. et, ••• - - i 1851, o f other exports, including quicksilver, 4,189,611 St. 100 ktanch•Shef.& Limb 2 4 1 • 2 , 5 5 all F..&W. York. J. stliF ••• - ... • dollars . 4 1 2 r 525. Do., Man. & Lin. Un • 10 1 Edin. & 01. 5 p.c. sh. ••• - ••• 10 • 1 Metropolitan 1 - - id Pigs. 11 3' telegraph from Liverpool it is announced that St. 100 Midland - 691 70 691 St. 100 iesi Prtla.&Dua.4p.c 64 - 66 20 all Furness - St. 100 Do. Birmng. &Derb 40 - 42 ••• -- th e American steam packet Africa has arrived in St. 100 Glas. &5.W.G.5 p.c. - ... •-- 50 all %lid] d. G. West. (Ire. - - . ... .-. t he Mersey, with 310,000 doll. in specie, and ad- 25 all Do. Half Shares St. 100 Great Northn. sp. e 116 - 118 an6i vi 100 all Newcastle & Carlisle. ... - .„ St. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem, ••• -- Cos from New York to the Gth inst. at 10 p. e. prom. 108 - 110 108 --2 F all Nwpt.Aberg. &HIV - - ... "IP The English Stock Market -has been quiet but 50 St. 100 Do. 41 p. c . 103 -- 105 102 81 Newry &Enniskille) ... - ... ..• --- itsl2l 71 Do. sp. c. Scrip, Red. .......... Th adY l at about the closing prices of Saturday. 20 all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor - at sp. c. pm... i t o - 0 Particulars of the new loan have been awaited St. DO Norfolk 49 - 51 10 all Gt.N. of Scot. letPre 9i - 10 vis t--St. 100 Gt, S. , !rW. (Ireland ... - • Pigs. , /ri th " considerable anxiety, and the speculators 50 33 Northn.ConntiesUn ... St. 1.00 North British., : .„, 29 ..- 30 20 11 Do. 4per 0. Prsf ,- ... •- ... 4 41'0 naturally been undecided bow to operate. s o +1 Qs. sis(o.lsll.Bxspe 6 - AA '' 5 e Nith Devon Rai!. & A ° Mols for money have been 901 -?k to 904 1, St. 100 Dock Stock St. ,11X) Do. con, red. 41 ine, 90 - 91 ''' 9 and s 904 i to 90a 1 1 for account ; but they now 4 i il' a St. 100 ' ?o„ A Stock... . ... - ~. St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p.e,80 -. a 2 st, 1100 Do. irred. 4p. e. 80 -8: 7 8 all ' l o., B Stock ..... - - tills at 001 to 90 3 / 4 for the former, and B St. 100 Do. sp. e. red. prof 95 100 -- all 1B G t , Do., . Illtrall CO . - ... • • 10 all Do. 40. do. ... - ... 9°l to 90i for the latter. The New Three per St. 100 N.Eastern-Berwic' 744 - 754 753 ere 300 ti all Do. [firm. Pref. 3h.. 94 -10 f 25 211,D0. do. Extension 6j - 6(I 141 gregate ee4 tS• are 01f to 911, and the Reduced Annuities 0 0i 25 15 IDo.do.G.N.E.'inrch. 41 - 3i 10 all Do. Chester Bp. c. P.:: 161 -• 164 tO i ; Exchequer-bills are ss. and 2s. discount. 50 all 'Do. Leeds 144 ..- ;56 141 10 all De. do. sp. c. do.. si 101 beasts , iroreign Securities are heavy at the following St. 100 ' Do. York 5l 52 51 1 St Ds Do. Birm. Gila. Stli• 70 -72 72 St. 100 North London 't all Do. Ches. atm. Sh., NA - 194 thorn ' N o tations, with very little business doing. Turk- 10 31 18 N .&S.WStril P. Ham - •. • - •• • 1.3, all Do, do. do Si - 9i g more ish ~ , 20' al Do, do. do l3l - 141 6 per Cents. 93 to I. Ditto I per Cent. Gua- , stead, and City Jn.. ... - ... some - 20 173 North Steffordshire.. 74 - 7(I 16 6 Lan. &York. F. a 1 - i ! ran teed Stock 1004. Mexican 204. Spanish 3 per St. 100 Do. 6p. C. Stock .. 1 32 134 n Mon - C 20 all - North Western - ••• -educed " i ts. 424. Venezuela 4 3 / 4 per Cent. 284 291. 10 all N. &S. Westrn. Jona ••• - ... St, 100 Lon. & Brigh. (4.5 p.( . ... - •••• , 10 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, St. 100 no. Pref., 5p.0. St .- -.- T he Committee of South American Bondholders St. 100 'Do. New Guar.6 p. c: ..• - .... h._ any} Leicester. - 1 Cam - ha_ received a further remittance of 2,0151. it. 1)0 sx Wore., & Woiv 23 - 25 St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent . ... - ... a other 18 !,0 8 •••4er.nonth St. 100 TlOll.Br,N. W., Coy.. ncl 200 A 8 * 10d. on account of the Equadorian divi- - St. 100 ,gcottish Central lO4 - 106 Nuneaton sp. et ... - - St. St 100 Lon.& S.W. 7 per ct ....- ...1) St. 1.00 !Scottish Midland .... 75 - 77 p num - I M ocks.- T he following are the nominal prices of Foreign St. 100 I , diropshire Ut ini .... 45 47 12. all Londy. & Coley.. i Sh. •.. - ••• t them. I 15t o k 50 all 'loath Devon - ... Ili ntton 20 c a:-Gronada. Deferred Bonds, 6i 74; Mexican, +. .. 1.10 'loath Eastern 634 - 654 644 41 St. 10 51.,5.,& L.,New,l9/ ••• - ••• 'rendes i 1 • Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; St. 100 kaith Wales 7l -78 73 o 4 Do. .£6 $- B lin the P ' 12? all Niarypt •& Carl, 4p e ... -• .. Ceuta. 4 per Cents 47 49 ; Russian 520 15 4. Yrksh. & Riv. Due 4 - 21 12"1 all Do. 44 per cent. •.. - ••• • ) per 20 6 )0 - id 12? 1.01 Do -- ••• .1 trade Uen ta., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 30 16 os;nee,Wok. PsWolt ... - tations. 3 Per Cents 42i * ;ditto Deferred, 234 i ;ditto 25 a'l Stockton & Darli , 36 - 38 St. 100 Aid.Consol.6p,e.si ... - •)St. 100 no. Con .11r.B . r. 6pc 132 - 134 at full Cer tificates, 4/ 5 ; ditto Passive, 64 1. l& sts :sun & Hartlepl ... - . Bt. 100 Do. 41 p. e. Pref. 5 ... - ... R. 130 Saw vsle . - .. ' 16 , all Do. Pref. 47i pro - cer 1 d Railway Shares are lower than the closing quo- St. ton Do. Pref., No. 1 ... - ... 25 22 I " , sines Hay. D.& R - - .., 5 all Do. Si. Pref. 4p, e. 4 - 46 0. d. rations on Saturday. Great Western, ss. to 10s. St. 100 ,Ditto L. & 11. Pref. s, ... - ... e 10 .. ,Illverstone & Lanes. ... - ... 410 e s; London and North-Western, 55., and Mid- 2J all ;Vale of Ncath 2O -- 22 10 all I New., Aber., 4re., pr. 1 _ 5 4 I SM ss. ; Great Westernof Canada continues firm, 2) all Waterfd. & Kilkenny 33 - 43 sp. c. red. 5 p c. pm. $ • - 6 0 50 all Waterford&Limeriek ... - ... 10 ali Norfolk Debeature ... 4 2 ' al ld Great Luxembourg are inclining upwards. 2) all (West Cornwall. • 4 - • 6 St. 100 De. Pref. 4p.c. St ck ... - ... . 410 ,In Miscellaneous Shares there is scarcely any 10 all Wost' End of London St. 100 'Do. sp. is. Ext ••• - ••• 29 0 and Crystal Palace.. ... - ••• St. 100 ,De. sApor et.pref ... - ... 28 0 bu siness doing, and prices are nominal. 5 all Do. A... .. - •••• §t. 100 De. Way. Val. sp. o ... - • 5 3 I Do. B . t. 100 North British 99 - 101 ! St. 100 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c P 91 - 4 , 3 . 600 ..... 81 tITISH FUNDS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK. 20 all West London • - •.• .. 5. (Freres the Otßial List.) 10 all Wimbledn&Croydon ... - ... die 17 7 Do. do. do 54 -54 .. 11 20 13 IDo Leeds6p.cf.No. l ... - ... Businesk done. .. - !lank Stock - . 25 1.0 'Do.York}l.& S. Per 1 - id sof fat 0 4 tar gent. Reduced Annuities ... - ... 201 20 ot, on New Cent Consols Annuities WI i i 10 1 all lAatwernartoct revu. 8 - 8 . 1 . garket4o 40 'Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. , St. 100 10x,Wo.kW.lf Vine ',.. - ~. 964 .7.7 3 per Cent. Annuities - ... 44° Nt Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... . 33 • ) itto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 11-16 20 10 Ardennes . .... 11 - lip 84 all Scot. Cent. ,New Pro , ... - ... 18, ' 56 411 dia Stoe - 21• 25 all ;South Devon 134 - 141 225 6 n_ " k 20 14 Beziers to Graissessae 1 - spar 10 li iDo. fixed,44 per ceni ... - ... 8. d• - •'. eel. for Account to 3 3 2 Ezehaquer Bills, 24d. C en t ra l India,Scrit 6 - 4 p 54 1 Ann.) of £1 Os. 66. 23 - 231 8 4 4 I'soo £lO - 4 •• • St. 100 'Do. 44 per cent 95 - 100 00 s. 5 2 d 1 4 8 91,1 101 - ••• St. 100 'Do. Fixed 44 p c sh. 94 -- 94 20 11 Dutch Rhenish l, - i r 114 St. 100 S. Wales Gua, 4p, o. ... - ... 3 4 Ditto Ronde, 1858, 33 per Cent - 20 all Eastern of France ... 371 - 371 20 all iDo. do. 43 p. c.... ... - ... 3 10 ' Ditto, 1853 4 4 ' Piti - e, 20 13 Do. New lO - 12,, 20 all 1 8.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. ... - 41 0 ••••E OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC B 20 all Kest Indian, g. 5 p.e 21 -Ely , 25 all !ctit.ock.& Dar. ,sp. o. ... -• .. 0 0 , Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ._ e Dltto Small - 20 15 Dc. Ertension •. A- i p 154 25 15 iDo. do. do. ... - .s. s 4 103 100 all D0.4?,p.c.8nd5.;57 ... - ... 124 all Stock.! & Hartl. g. 6 6 0 al ' l ean 3 per Cent. - ttat ell 1,,, . 110. (10.. .C 9, d' . .. - ... Ip. o, till July 1, '56 ... = ... 4 0 a Ditt o Account - 2 4d 41 0 I an'fil , Howls, 3 per Cent - guar. 5 per c nt.. -. •.• ' bitte Account 3,95 5 19,67 0 h itto y e w Deferred, 3 per Cent. - /4 1 all Ague, Fria - ••• 3 T D itto t r Account - 151 15t 1 a ll A ng l o A ns t r i n . G o ld ri ... - .. 20 5 "sh [toads, 6 par cent 93 100 9 i Do. Cert. of Doben. Lo w all Angl o C a lif o rnian ... 1 Ditt o Account sheer , . v Ditto Gu aran teed. 4 per Cent l O Ol 1 00 all' Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 82 -• PC, 1 Ali Australian Cordillev - ... - Inezuela Bonds, 44 per Cent - 511 1 11l Ave Maria. "elves, Ditto Deferred, 16 per Cent. ....... - 204 201 ,• - ..• 1 , all Baden (Gd•Deehy of ' ... - ... livttiends on v.«. shove payable In London. 26 14 Groat Luxembonr , 50 I all Bleonar. Iron & Cm . ... - ... Constituted Share , ' 44 - 51 544 P 'each Restos, 44 per Cent. - 5 h Ditto 3 per Cent 74f 75c ex 25f 30c 4 all Do. Obligations... 3 - 31 31 3 35 26 Bra,zilia.nlmp.(issuo , itinue ' J atcli Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Gnil ... 614 20 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. ... -- ... at 05 pm.) - 21 =lent QUARTER PAST TWO. ./.0 all Gt.WesternofCansea elhares - ,1 26 30 all Do. Comes tfr Cuiab 2 - '..4 ! C •neole, money Q. 9l 91,', M 54 Do. New - 3 / 1 20 1.5 Do, St.. John Del 11.e3 26 - 2 Ditto Account, 914 911 tiii• Ili ,Do. Bds., payable's7, 1 ; Clarmdon Cons. Min s. d. Co. of Jamaica,...,, 4 - i p 2 10 , 1 The market rather excited. 1 with option till '55.. 99 - 100 i 4') all Cobre Copper 66 - - 68 3 4 ! 1.00 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 .. 122 - 125 5 1 Colonial Gold ... - ... 100 all Do. do., 76, p. '60... 122 - 125 4 2 TEE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS St. , all Copper Min. of En. , 36 - 40 5 0 ' 25 ,' all Do. Pref. 76 p. cen 26 - 28 4 10 COMPANY. 4'o all f D o c p . t d io o n ., '73, without 106 104 ~. iIC Copiapo. 22 - 94 23 • 20 all i H a milton & Toronto 251- 254 2 This new company exhibited on Saturday, for the 100 all IDo. 6 per cent. - id 20 all Gent,al. . l4 - 1 6 first time, at its offices 454 Strand, the designs for hops. tv , 7 I all lt.NuggetVeinßeg. I - 4 kinds i to arded in competition for a prize of 1001., to be awarded 2 2( 0 1 a l l 7 l LiensLake4l all Great Polvootb .... 14 -21 5 111 [Lucca dr Fist. sp. c,p. .. _ pyr, Count.anaT Turnhout nh Basle ou t .. .. : ...: . ..... 0 from ~ the best plan of vehicle adapted to its traffic. The ' (knew' ... 9- 10 5. 1 all Ct Wheal Vor United 1 id from J"ges selected to decide the prize are Mr. Charles . 0 16 ILY°n' and 1 ! all Liberty i - 1 20 14 Lyons 4 Moditerrsn ... Manby, Mr. George Godwin, and Mr. J. Wright, car- 3 1 all Linares 6j - 7 cwt ; r ,,age builder to the London and North• Western Railway. 5 ! 11 Lusitanian 11- 4 I - These gentlemen have not yet determined which is the 2 1 0 1' all to v o t o s.d . N ra e e w , go:: : 5 4 irp.. C. 1 119 ~ 20 5 Do. 4i in e. Exton 4 - d 1 all Mariquita .. 4- I 1 all New Granada 4 -- i llecessful design, but their choice seems to rest between :31n all Maria Antonia ... 7 ' 9 1 all Nouveau Monde t wo -one sent in by Mrs R. F. Miller, the other by Mr. if , an Do. do. New ....... .. 2 - 3 frail- 10 all Pontgi.Sil & Lo. Min. 12 - 14 Wilson. Both present considerable improvements on el all Namur 4 Liege (wait' 5 1 Port Philip D ift in 64 - 6 - ... t he best forms of omnibus now in use, but whether they interost) 1 all quartz Rock 4 - 4 ten- Nlfil all the conditions requisite for a conveyance of the 9.0 all Do. (ex interest) sf - 5 4 . t ., 50 1 all Rhymney Iron .19- 21 x d 70s kind can scarcely be ascertained except by practical 1.6 all Northern of France. ' , '6l - 87 4 " 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 x d 20 all Do.2ol.She ll4 12 1 30 1 13? Santiago de Cuba.. 24 -. 3 70s; trial. What is required for the proper accommodation .., , 0 all Do. 201. 3p. c Ads 'OB to of the public is clearly defined by the company under... i 6s. -.it - L. Cons. Min. Co 34 - 4 x d (fray.B diAms.Shs. • .. - •• t he following heads :-Increased height and width in- 1 all :stall A.ustralian.. i - i 10 all NorwogianTrunkPre • 7 •- 8 1 , all so. Scrip 2 - 2 • a ide, improved ventilation, 17 inches straight seat for 20 all Paris and Lyons 48 4 -- 481 49 4 1 4 so. 10 per cent Prof ... -- .. e ach passenger, with room for 20-12 inside and 8 out• 40 all Ditto Bonds - . ... 41 am. S. & L. Min. Co. ... - .. Leidy. . , R ule; easier means of access to the ro of se at s, greater 'to all Paris and Orleans.... 48 - 50 10 9 fin Croft 4l - 54 encod Protection there to passengers, reduced noise in motion, 10 5 Rome and Frascati.. ... - ... 283 all United Mexican 34 - 4 'heed t he weight of the whole not to exceed one ton, and 10 all ,Royal Danish l9 - 20 1 all Waller 4 - 1 7d; the present outside width not to be materially ex- 5 all IRoyalSwedish l4 - 21 14 214 1 all West Mariposa .....,• dto 4 all I Do. Obligations .... ?ti - 24 24 11. 12s. Worthing Mining or seeded. The General Omnibus Company, in directing its 63d.; 20 all Sambre and Meuse 9 - 94 Australia a ttention thus early to the essential point of securing 2 19 all Do.. 53 p. cent. Prof. ' ••• '...' .41 °pS , 1 701 Yuba.. ••• - • • ;d to Vehicles in which people can travel with a moderate de- 2p 5 Semde, guar. sp. e 1 - 13 - - ••• --- ... Ado - gree of comfort, is unquestionably consulting its own 20 all Do. •"' dand best i nterests as we ll as t h ose o f the public ; and not - 20 a ll S ou th ern o f F ra nce ... -pm - tnbs, 'withstanding the difficulties which the narrow streets of 20 16 St. Andrew's and a 19 Australian Agricult. 25j - 265 I per London, overburdened with traffic, interpose, we hope Quebec (A).,. •• -- ..• le. all Instraln. Royal Mail .., _ .. The t ° See its efforts in this direction crowned with succese. 81' all West Flanders 3l -,4 10 all Berlin Water Works 6/ -7i from Of the 810 omnibuses running in the metropolisit 10 all Do 51 per c. Prof.,, ... ..s. ... 2 20 0 a l l g ,W, eat,. & N o . ;W and '° Switzerland F rR le • ! 3 . .• - ". 1 . 31 50 40 Brit. American Land 47 - 5 5 100 *.;`2,, Canada i 127 - 132 has now bought up 326, which require some 3 , 500 st, 100 C.Go.l3p.e..Tar&;alyll o B3 - 1004 1004 horses and upwards of one thousand men to work 1:- 6 all Wiesbaden - 105 to is t hem. Some time will probably elapse before the system 20 all [Zealand 181 - 191 St, 100 Do. 6p.c. Mar & Sept 109 - 11 l 'd to of "correspondence " and the other leading features of --•-______ 5 ail Crystal Pa1ace........ 21 - 24 dto the scheme proposed by the company can be introduced. 5 all Do. Preference 44 -54 Meanwhile, it publishes: s lal s its traffic returns weekly, and JOINT-STOCK BANKS: 4 all C r ystal Pal. of France ... - ... boasts that they exceed in amount those of three-fourths 1 4 Dnston Iron Ore ••• -•-• ••• of the railways in the united kingdom. What suite the -0 1.11 Australasia 92 - i.'4 20 13 Eastern Steam . ....... ... - .. 5 all En.diAns Cop Sm Co 1 14 wants of the French metropolis may not in every detail 100, 50 Bank of NB L a. o nA n k t m lo oe n frAi . c . sa . in . a 6 1).. 7 ar. - i 6 9 .‘, 25 all Electric Telegraph... 194 - 204 be found to answer for London, but there seems to be 40 all Kri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C. ~, ..._. ... • : ices no good reason assignable why, with prudent arrange- 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. ... ... are Inept', all parties directly or indirectly affected by this 5 all Gen. Iron Se Collier ... - ... 41 on chrt rill d ark. of India ''- - 1 ' 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... - .. • undertaking should not find' themselves benefitted by a 52 : 5 u 41 5 :: C ilr it l : t y ri l tAlh. : r alla• ~ & China ... - ...d 44518 all General Screw Steam ... e•-• ... Co. concentration of management, admitting of plans being ~,,., 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sam ... -- 70 --- 72 603 economically carried out on a scale suitable to the 0 14 Ch nd. t. 1 - 74 -- 18 - 4 all bond. Gen. Omnibus 34 - • 4 _ g • 80e Wants of the modern Babylon. While the omnibuses 2o 10 Kagdalena St. Navig ... - ••• Gore in the hands of a number of different proprie- it:°°° 10 all Meditemn. Elec. Tel. 8 10 --5 20 all Sng.Seo •. • 2 2 - 0 5 C 0 C o m i o ri m ! e s r l ct i a&I ofo i 10 9 Nexican&S.Amerion. 54 -e tent, each having a practical monopoly of some out -55 Bide district of town, and all fiercely competing for cus- 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... - ••• tomers in the centre, this was obviously impossible. 10 5 Netherlands Land.... 1 - 14 'lOl 2 2 0 0 111 5 69 D A i t u n s t d o i r a N l e i ws Chan . . . Au stra lia.. .........• .... . B . . . . . k . . f II ....- 1 1 4 7 i 10 all Do. Do. - 3 715 s The public, too, will be gainers by having one responsi. 50 20 Lendon and ......... ••• - ... 90e ble body to deal with, instead of m an y , 100 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkg.CorP• • ' - 21) 5 2 Do. 8p c P iss at 1 d 4 - Icl when abuses 50 10 London Joint Stock. • .. - • - 100 80 New B. & N.. Land 18 - 22 require to be rectified or increased accommodation is 1 all N. B. Australasian i - i , demanded. It will be curious and interesting to watch I'M 10 'London and Paris.... 2 dle - - par 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropoSteam .... - .. 154 15 100 20 Lond.&Westminster ... --.... ••• tla- , t he progress of this new experiment introduced from 1 all Oriental Gas 1 - 14 100 35 National Pro.of Eng . - the Vrance, worked for the most part with French capital, 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" .., - ,„ -- e ...• per an d carried en simultaneously as a commercial enter- 20so 22410 NDsot.ioNneftwi 5 ail Peel Rr. M.& Mimi. 21 - 2i ..• prise with that other development of the same principle 20 all New South of W lre al lan es. d 37 ----- 3 - 9 50 all Peninsular& Oriental, „. - ... _...- 50 10 Do. New Which is embodied in the creation of the Metropolitan 25 all Oriental Bank of .....- Board of Works. Corporation 39 -. 41 2 all Portland Iron Co ... - ... 17 1 100 ,25 iPruvincial of Ireland .., -. ... 514 100 60 Royal Mail Steam „, ... - ... od -- 1 all Scot.Anstral. Invest. 1 ..,- 14 j ,od a At the last meeting of the Water-Colour Society, M r. 10 all 'Do. New •.. ..- ...• 1 i Ditto New - 1p 37 , James Holland and Mr. George Andrews were elected 51 ft Ans ~ &Go Imo Co ..„ - ... 25 all South Mistrals - Land 51 - 361 47 Associates. 100 50 Royal British ..... .„, . ••• 1 all Samar. Tol.Sorip i- 1 82 25 all nth Australia ...... it; - 40 22 liziroAtiaaedcces from Athens, dated Feb. 6, say that Admiral 25 all nion of Australia... 70 '- 72 20 all Do. Registored. i- ii 15 6 , Crustal L.Co.U.Can. . •-• „„. 54 has arrived in the Greek waters, to replace Ad-, . ...... 21 Do. NOW ••••••••••••••• 74 st 11 , 284 Vass Dlemsn'e tsno 154 ...., 26 -50 1 10 union Ql . London eft 27 -29 oe ne T0046P19076280U1Y „, IN PI THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EvENINCL FEBRUARY 18, 1856. LITERATURE. Fair wai thy blush, the faired and first of the blushes of morning ! Deep was thy shudder, 0 Earth ! the throe of thy JONATHAN FREKE SLINGSBY. Poems. By John Francis 'Pallor, LL.D. James self-retention : Inly thou strovesl to flee, and didst seek thyself at thy M`Glasban. Dublin. Have you heard of J. F. Slingsby, Slingsby of the manly chest, low he slays the snapping Turtles, In the regions of the West l centre ! Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden resilience ; and forth with Myriad myriads of lives teemed forth from the mighty embracement." In very truth—the poetical apotheosis at once of animated nature and of the principle of gravita tion ! And to the Earth, the maternal Earth, thus addressed by Samuel Coleridge, Dr. Waller gives a voice of song, a voice of irresistible and melliflu ous allurement. Conspicuous among his charming and thoroughly national love-ditties, must be in stancod the very beautiful one suggested by the old Irish phrase of tenderness, sweet to the ears of Celtic maiden as the sound of the Cushle-mo-chree, or of the familiar asthore, or of the accustomed mavourneen, the poetic adjuration " DANCE LIGHT, for my heart it lies under your feet, love How slogs Dr. Waller to the time of that old phrase of the master passion, on the lips time out of mind of his emotional fellow-countrymen—whispered at twilight in the green lane, and by the brook side, and at the meadow-gate ? How sings he to the dear ell phrase of tender and honeyQd blarney — How does he sing to it ? Listen ! reading, for the " snapping turtles" of Bon Gaultier, all literary impostors, and for " the regions of the West," Ireland. Of course—every body who is anybody has heard of him. Every body has, of course, heard of Jonathan Freke Slingsby—has read him—has laughed over his ex hilarating drolleries, and sighed over his amiable sentimentalism. Every one who has an eye for fun and frolic, for the humorous and the poetical, knows almost by heart the " Slingsby Papers"— the contributions of Jonathan Freke to the Marra. of Dublin—himself its Christopher North, and Timothy Tickler, and Irish Shepherd, all rolled into one ! Has he not long been its editor ? is he not still its editor ? the best editor . the Hiber nian Maga has had since the harum-scarum, rol licking reign of one Captain Harry L9rrequer Doa't we all count, as upon a thing of course, upon our finding, month after mends, in the pages of the clever old Trin Coll. organ oue of those delightful effusions, half pathetic verse, half humorous prose, by the penning of which, Jonathan Freke Slingsby has won for himself his own capital, delightful, pecu liar reputation. Well—here, in this charming little volume of "Poems"—we have him at last in pro prid persona, and no longer in mere masquerade. Ensign Beverley no more, but the veritable Cap tain Absolute. The mask of Mr. Slingsby dropped —we recognise under the hood of the familiar domino, the features of Dr. Waller. The genuine Simon Pure is at length " brought to book" lite rally. It is " out," if in no other way at the end of the work under notice, through the medium of the fly-leaf advertisement. Ecce Signum—"By the same Author, THE SLINGSBY PAPERS i -&C." All hail ! to Dr. Waller in his own entity therefore, and no longer half hidden by his facetious pseu donym, his fantastic soubriquet, his quaint, queer, odd, ridiculously circumstantial nom de plume— Jonathan Freke Slingsby, eke contributor to, and editor of, the Dublin University Magazine. Dr. Waller, in truth, is to the Dublin University what the famous Dr. Magian, of glorious memory, was, once upon a time, to Fraser's Magazine —a prodigy at once of animal spirits and scholarly accomplish meats. Learned and lively, witty and wise—how shall we say it ? to the height of the ludicrous and the depth of erudition ! Yet forgetting, as we needs must, for awhile, his master-hand in the authorship of the " Papers" by his alter ego J. F. Slingsby—turn we our attention here for a time exclusively to these " Poems" by himself, in his own proper person as J. F. Waller. They are the natural extiress of the fruitfulness of his poetic imagination. Not, that is to say, the second and third squeezings of the vat, but the spon taneous running over of the wine of life—poesis —as, in the grape countries, when the vine gatherers collect the first rich streams exuding from the mere weight of the ripe bunches, heaped one upon another in a purple mountain of mellowness I "Drink deep or taste not the Castalian spring I" It will glide pleasantly enough we warrant even over the palate of the more fastidious. There is temptation to the quaffing, moreover, even in the very title of one of our author's minor productions e., " Bibe Amice de Meo," suggested by a red clay drinking-cup found at Pompeii, with that alluring inscription around it, and still preserved in the Neapolitan Musee Borbonico. Let us con fess it at once, however —we prefer the songs and the fugitive pieces happily con stituting the bulk of the little volume before us, to semi-Tennysonian love tales in verse such as the first and longest of the " Poems" in the collection, the ono entitled "Raveuscroft Hall." The daintiest, and most delicious, and delectable morsel in which, Dr. Waller Mast forgive us for saying, is the little fragment quoted iu it from the " Talking Oak" of the Laureate. Quoted, however, in one verse, only to be spoilt (we will believe at once, entirely by a slip of the printer), namely—where it should have been, instead of "I,"— "DANCE LIGHT. " Ah, sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel— Your neat little foot will be weary from spinning ; Come trip down with me to the sycamore tree, Half the parish is there, and the dance is tieginning. The skin is gone down, but the full harvest moon Shines sweetly and cool on the dew-whitened valley ; While all the air rings with the soft loving things, Each little bird sings in the green shaded alley. With a blush and a smile, Kitty rose up the while, tier eye in the glass, an she bound her hair, glancing ; 'Tis bard to refuse when a young lover sues— So she couldn't but ohoo'e to—;4l off to the dancing. And now on the green, the glad groups are seen— Each gay-hearted lad with the bans of his choosing ; _ _ And Pai , without fail, leads out sweet Kitty Neil— Somehow, when he asked, she ne'er thought of refusing. Now, Felix Magee puts the pipes to his knee, And with flourish so free sets each couple in motion • With a cheer and a bound, the lads patter the groun d— The maids move around just like swans on the ocean. Cheeks bright as the rose—feet light as the doe's, Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing— Search the world all round, from the sky to the ground, No such sight cal& be found as an Irish lass dancing. Sweet Kate ! who could view your eyes of deep blue, Beaming hurriedly through their dark lashes so mildly, Your fair•turned arm, heaving breast, rounded form, Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulses throb wildly. Young Pat feels his heart, as he gazls, depart, Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love, The sight leaves his eye, as he cries with a sigh, `Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love I' " William Allingbarn, one of the most gifted and genuinely poetical among Dr. Waller's follow couutrymen and contemporaries, William Ailing ham, author of " The Music Master," and of the' " Day and Night Songs," has chaunted a lay of Irish Love, wonderfully like this in spirit aid in character. We mean the song sold, far and wide about Ireland, as "a ha'penny ballad," the quaint, charming, delightful song of "Lovely Mary Don nelly !" Who does not remember it that has once read it. With it's— " . . . Mary kept the belt of lova, and 0 but she was gay ! She clawed a jig, she sang a 81,1,y, that took iny heart away." With its reminiscence of— " When she stuod up for dancing, her steps were so com plete, The music nearly killed itself to listen to her feet :" And its memory, too, of how— "The fiddler moan'd his blindness, he heard her so much praised, But bless'd himself he wasn't deaf when once her voice she raised " Ah, who, say we, can ever forget it who has once read that dear old ballad of " Lovely Mary Don• nelly," written by the young Irish poet, William Allingham ? And to the Mary Donnelly of Ailing ham the Kitty Neil of Waller is " own sister " in nature, if not in name, in heart, and beauty, and grace, and agile dancing ! Is she not ? Read the lay again ! Hear "Felix Magee put the pipes to his knee and with flourish so free [the rogue !] put the couples in motion !" Watch Pat [poor var let 1] when " the sight leaves his eye," hear him when "he cries with a sigh—' Dance Light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love!' " Dr. Wal ler, after that, it needs no words of ours to aver, can write a love-ballad With the best of them, a genuine Irish love song, full of grace, and drol lery, and humour, and tenderness—such as the world owes much for the possession of, to Moore, and Lover, and Griffin, and let us add also, more re cently, to Waller and Allingham. As such a song writer—lrish to the core—we greet the author of these "Poems " cordially with an earnest greeting —none the less welcome to him, we trust, coming frankly from the hand and heart of an English man. " A tear-drop trembled from its source And down my surface crept. My sense of touch is somewhat coarse, But I believe cite wept." The typographical arrangements of the volume, however, are here and there by no means irre proachable. As, for (another) example, where the four lines from the original Italian of Metastasio are given by Dr. Wailer as the refrain-motto to his charming translation of the old ecclesiastic's " Hymn to Venus," might Surely have been given intact, being (to say the most of it) a quatrain so exceedingly simple and sententious : Scendi prop!zia. Col too splendore, 0 belle, Venere Madre d'Amore. A charming translation we repeat this to be, to our thinking, this sweet and dulcilluous version of the melodious and dulcet Lino a Vencre of Metastasio : and yet hardly so much a translation after all as an elaborate paraphrase. Otherwise we should never find developing into such ingenious labyrinths of metaphor and versification, under the anglicising auspices of Dr. Waller, that rapid glimpse of the glories of cloudland vouchsafed to us by the Abbate Pietro Metastasio, when he sings A Fenere— Per to le tremule Faci del cielo Dell' ombre squarciano L'umido velo. Or again, where the lovely phantasm of the Pagan goddess is apostrophised by the Christian priest in the courtly phrases of Parnassus— Vien dal too epirito Dolce e fecondo Cih the d'amabile Racchiude it monde. Enough, however, in the way of what might, if further insisted on, be at once objected to, not un reasonably, as hypercritical fastidiousness in retard to an English version of Metastasio, which, if n - A a strictly accurate translation, is at any rate a very graceful paraphrase. Several of the " Songs ' given in an earlier portion of the volume we are not at all surprised to observe have been already sot to music by different composers. Harmonious lyrics as they are, for the most part suggestive of melody and instrumental accompani ment. Witness this Dr. Waller's exquisite ditty, entitled, tenderly, Cushic- mo-chrce, otherwise — PULSE OF MY LIEART. By the green banks of Shannon I wooed thee, dear Mary, When the sweet birds were singing in summer's gay pride, From those green banks I turn now, heart-broken and dreary, As the sun sets, to weep o'er th e grave o f my bride. Idly the sweet birds around me aro singing, Summer like winter is cheerless to me ; I heed not if snow falls, or flow'rets are springing, For my heart's light is darkened, my Cushle-mo•chrec! Oh I bright shone the morning when first as my bride, love, Thy foot, like a sunbeam, my threshold crossed o'er, And blest on our hearth fell that soft eventide, love, • When first on my bosom thy heart lay, asthorc ! Restlessly now, on my lone pillow turning, Wear the night-watches, still thinking on thee ; And ciarker thau night breaks the light of the morning, For my aching eyes find thee not, Cashlc.in , o-chrce ! 0 my loved me e one ! my lost one ! say, why didst thou lea To linger on earth with my heart in thy grave ! Oh ! would thy cold arms, love, might ope to rece i ve me To my rest 'neath the dark boughs that over thee wave. Still from my once happy dwelling I roam, lov e , Evermore seeking, my own bride, for thee ; Ah, Mary ! wherever thou art is my home, love, And I'll soon lie beside thee, my Cushic-mo-chree ! Another charming lyric is "The First Cuckoo of Spring," with its constantly recurring Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! chiming in softly with the rhythmic ca dence of the stanzas. What, however, can we say of the " Spinning Wheel Song ?" What but that in the daring identity of its theme and in the rash resemblance of its execution, it appears to our , wondering observation an act of poetical audacity after the matchless Chanson , of Beranger—" La Mere Aveugle." It is evident repeatedly to u s, while turning over m p e ec O u i liar aptitude for "Poems,'' that Dr. the pa g e s Faller o f i s h is discovering the poetry lying endsao a w c e e d f u with v i t o h l u m perdu, for the million in old sayings—aphorisms as old as the hills, or older, may be, some of them, if they happen to have come down to us from our antediluvian progeni tors. Thus at one moment Nye find him. celebrating " Laborare est Orare "—the dictum was it not of the good, and wise, and grand old Tertullian 7 At another we listen to him while he sings a pensive commentary in verse upon "The Remembrance of Youth is a Sigh"—the saying of Ali the son of Ma hornet 1 Again, has he not given us—yonder a lyrical illustration of " Welcome as Flowers in May," and yonder another to the fanciful thought "There's a lining of silver to every Cloud ?" In his " Song of the Earth," too, has he not given most persuasive voice to the maternal orb addressed so lovingly, and reverently, and wondrously in those divine hexameters of Coleridge— ,, B r id e and Consort of Heaven that looks down upon thee enamoured ! . Say, mysterious Earth l 0 say, great mother and goddess, Was it not well with thee, then, when first thy lap was ungirdled, 'Thy lap to the genial Heaven, the day that he wooed thee and won thee ! POETICAL LICENCE IN GRAMMAR. In re DR. MACKAYS " LUMP OF GOLF." We observe that exception has been taken in certain quarters to one of the critical opinions ad vanced by us in our recent review of Dr. Mackay's graceful and ingenious poem of " The Lump of Gold." During the course of our remarks upon that very charming, but not, as we still venture to conceive, altogether faultless production, we did certainly object, and for that matter do here for mally and most earnestly reiterate our objection to what we may continue to designate, for want of a better phrase, the frequent ellipse of Dr. Mac kay's participles—objecting to this decidedly and peremptorily as ungrammatical. We instanced casually, in the matter of these objections, such lines as the following :—" Tradition itself has forgot them"—" The Pharaohs are forgot" —and " That civil discord might have broke." Whereupon a correspondent of one of - our weekly contemporaries questions the validity of our right to reprehend passages like those already adduced as in any way ungrammatical. Suggesting that they are strictly correct in construction by virtue of that very convenient and elastic privilege familiar even to every school-boy votary of the muses, the All-saving and all-potent privilege of Poetical Licence. And instancing in corroborative testimony of the suggestion thus thrown out—not so much in palliation as in distinct justification, if not positively in actual commendation of Dr. Mackay's violation of one of the rudimentary laws of syntax—the second verse in Thomas Campbell's Lines on Waterloo—and the opening one in Robert Burns' glorious bacchanalian of " Auld Lang Syne." The former running thus— " Our Flumes have waved in combats that ne'er shall be forgot ;" and the latter thus, as everybody well remem bers— " Should auld acquaintance be forgot." Very well—so far, everything yet said upon the matter only goes to prove that Thomas Campbell and Robert Burns could be, no less glaringly than Charles Mackay, decidedly ungrammatical. By a poetical licence if you please—but still ungram matical. Greater poets than either Burns or Campbell have been so before now. We could help the correspondent of our contemporary to plenty of yet more extraordinary violations of syntax for the sake of rhythm, or of euphony, or of both together—instances much more notable in their way than those adduced by him from Burns and Campbell. Lit us say at once from writers no less classic and authoritative than Byron and Shakspere. For example have we not from the hand of the first mentioned the opening of that lovely song of his— "There be none of beauty's daughters," &c. And in one of the daintiest ditties in Cymbeline, in perhaps the most exquisite and dulcet serenade ever penned by man, do we not listen (for the sake of the rhyme) to— Hark, hark the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phcebus 'gins arise His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies. Precisely as here recorded, Shakspere wrote, Byron wrote, Burns wrote, Campbell wrote—by poetical licence of course but still, ungrammatically. Always, however, remember —Shakspere, By ron, Burns, Campbell wrote thus most ex ceptionally, most rarely, just once in- a way, in obedience to the exigences, as we have said, of rhyme, or of metre, or of euphony. Instances like these are but sparsely sprinkled up and down, here and there, in the grander treasures of our poetical literature—not scattered broadcast, hither and thither, as these fore-shortened participles of Dr. Mackay are so lavishly in his charming little book of " The Lump of Gold." The authority of mere poetical licence, we take it, is on l y admissible oc casionally—as we have already expressed it just once in a way—dying out, and lapsing into no au thority at all, whenever it i s allowed by a loose and exquisitive style, or a callous taste to hard en into a habit! The " poetical licence" of the lopped participles of D r . andpain- Mackay we never denied — bu t we objected to th em bie i earnestly,yet more as we e e d a r o n h e e e r t e l again y,a e , object to them, if beyondpossi ble,all man ner o f pain fully doubt,—toungrammatical. our ag on i s c T d h e s ensitive ears —decidedly taste of Pope led him in the very first couplet of his immortal " Rape of the Lock" to sacrifice to the venerated lams of grammar, even alias cruelly, his I subtle and refined sense of the euphonious ; where we find him singing, as it were through his teeth— " What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighiy contests rise from trivial things, I sing, &e." Enough, however—the accuracy of our exception to the frequent misuse of "forgot" by Dr. Mackay in his recent volume we must hero insist upon ex plicitly. Pardoned it might be—once—in submis sion to the despotic power accruing to the poet from his vaunted prerogative of unlimited and irresponsible licence - in metrical composition. Re curring again and again —it must be heartily pro tested against as a wanton violation of the sanctity of the beautiful and symmetrical code of the gram marians ! Comic writers of verse can alone hope to enjoy the singular privilege of so writing vvitli anything like impunity. Reading their oddities of thought and freaks of syntax, we can, of course, "grin and bear it" complacently enough. As where Cowper sings to us in his diverting ballad of " John Gilpin," in the voice of a rhyming punehi- " My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill tho chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we." But a poet at once didactic, serious, and senti mental —must expect no mercy at all, either for a false quantity or a flaw in grammatical construc tion. Au unconditional forgiveness upon the score of "poetical licence," may, we repeat, be accorded once—but, demanded again and again, the plea be comes inadmissible, the fault proves unpardonable, the double crime against good taste and good grammar seems absolutely to require a protest in the way of wholesome expiation. For the fervour of this protest the critic is no more responsible than the muscles of his face are responsible for screfring themselves into knots under the acid influence of the sourest of green gooseberries —or his teeth for presuming to be set on edge by the biting of a piece of flannel—or his every sense for being jarred into anguish under the scroop of a rusty nail drawn across a slate perpendicularly. Against the of fender, whoever he may be, we for one must needs cry out agonisedly—even though we may recog nise in him, through our profound admiration, the glorious genius of a Campbell, or a Burns, or a Byron, or a Shakspere. INSIDE SEBASTOPOL " AND THE CRITICS." We noticed this handsome volume some weeks since with a qualified approbation ; and as we then predicted the work has gone to a second edition. The author has taken advantage of this opportunity to run a-muck at all his critics—not very wisely perhaps, but that is his affair. Some people like to read what sharp things can be said in a squabble, so we extract the rejoinder of this " Civilian." " Inside Sebastopol" ought to have been a God-send to the writers instructed to cut it up. It was jotted down in note-books, with a pencil, while I was thinking more of the scenes before mo than of the rules of compo sition. More of the Res gestss regumque, ducutnque, et tristia belle ;han of the Quo scribi possent numoro. In reading it over after it had passed through the press, I was shocked at the number and the absurdity of the "slips" it contained. I had called a shark an anthropomorphous fish. I (or the printer) had filled the steam-boats on the Bosphorus with Muscovites in stead of Mussulmans. I had misquoted Shakspearo. I had twice written Dardanelles instead of Bosphorus. I bad called Stafford House Sutherland House. I had writ ten " Piazza del Rotundo," for " Piazza del Rotonda," and "Mpunt Toro" for " Monte Tauri ;" and I had even committed the unpardonable offence of changing the tense of a verb in a historical Joe Miller, and had there by caused George the Third to reign a year before his proper date. I thought of confessing these sins in a a italogue of errata. But then it occurred to me that the small fry of criticism would be bound by their alle giance to Albemarle-street, and the exigencies of their advertisement department, to attack me ; for had I not written evil things of profitable handbooks ? It was like speaking lightly in his own village of the church-warden wha distributes the weekly eleemosy nary quartern loaves. Would not every struggling thing which just exists by the favour of the Memenases who dole forth the pabulum of Grub-street be bound to see in me an enemy ? Would not the goose quills of a score of journeymen be dipped in gall ? Would not the word go forth to make an example of the reck less mortal who had ventured upon this sacred rF f rv os ? It was plain that Grub-street would hoot mo. Why, then, should I help those candid gentlemen to a telling article I Without my assistance they would have no more chance of discovering that anthropomorphous should have been written anthropophagous, than they would have of understanding the historical atcl classical allusions wherewith, as th , y dismal :3r complain, my book abounds. But had I gi%en them this ire dex of errors, what an air of gra. d e iverit i would the whole troop of dunces have assumed. E.-en the sedate critic of the Scctator, who instinctively protests against what he is pleased to call the smartness of these ' pages, would have been expected to be facetious elough to ask whether this "anthropomorphous fish" was not a merman, or at least a sea a't raey. The Leda, which loftily rejects the evidence of Christianity, and believes only in Heine, and Rug', and Mund-,, and Gutzkow, and Laube, is now obrged to lecture me upon my incapacity of balancing evidence ; but even Leda., muddled as her poor skull is v ith German in6delity, might have done something better for her Albemarle street Jove. She might have superbly referred me to "Guy's Geography," or pertly told mo that a rarged school volume upon " Common Things" would have taught me better, had she only known of that slip of the pencil which wrote " Dardanelles". for " Bosphorus." The A 3i7l(CUla, with officious zeal, kicks out viciously on behalf of the "handbooks," and betrays a suspicious knowledge of early copies of now editions. It is a fine simple nature is that of Asinus of the As!)vetcht. We can't quite say of him— O prodige ! 0 merveille ! Mono ane park, et memo it pude bien ; but there is something almost touching in the humble piety with which ho adores what he calls the " magnate of Albemarle-street." One is nearly tempted to respect his faithful defiance of truth and fact when he talks his own nonsense about the monuments of Rome. We see the heroic object of the self-sacrificing creature. He is heat upon proving that it is not true that the absurdities of Murray' s hand-books cannot be surpassed. It was a fa'se thing to say or sing of Asinus that Le diablo Premier (intern' dos ecrits do he fable, Lui fournissait ces examples frappants Et mottait ane au sang de nos savants. To give the devil his due, the fictions he inspires are al ways clever. The good brute did very well, all things considered ; he lashed his tail, and cocked his ears, and brayed most uncivilly. But if Asinus had only knewu of the conflict between received chronology and my ver sion of the Joe Miller anecdote concerning Wolfe, what a triumphant bray would have resounded along the Strand ! Amether class of critics--the poor expiring magazines—must be spoken of tenderly ; for of the dying as of the dead, "nil nisi bonuus." Moreover, I have a money obligation to them. They al vertise my book among their articles, and a: no living thing of earth ever reads those articles, the advertisements are an un balanced obligation. Even I only guess that lam well abused by them. But this class of literary flunkies not only wear the livery and ape the langua.;e of their mas ters, but, like their better-paid brothers of the shoulder knot, assume their patrons' names. When I read the names I know infallibly the tendency of the articles, and am not tempted to change their virgin uncut state as they lie upon those club-room tables whore an old superstition allows them still to linger. Upon the whole I think it was more prudent not to print a list of errata. One thing which detracts from the amusement of an author who is mobbed by the weekly and monthly lit terateurs, is that he feels himself in bad society. There is a great difference between the polite persiltilaye of the bal de l' Opera and the coarse practical jokes of an Eag lish masquerade. The temple of Asinus partakes of the latter character. Therein the author is hustled by dunces, slapped on the back or bonnetted by fellows, who, without education or mother wit, are merely rude. A. good deal of bad English has been expended upon this bock by the small reviews, but not a thought, or a fact, or a scrap of reading above the capacity of any individual who had taken moderate advantage of the early-closing movement and a mechanics' institute. I am told by my serving man (who made his information the excuse for rather a lengthened absence, and a slight thickness of u tt e rance) that about the smartest thi n g s were said by s spectable vintner, who, in the intervalsthe belles lei sure un posed by a tyrannical Legislature, do e sl d epar tment of the Morning Justicejuie . My . repentant Theodore, who himse lf writes occas i onally siona l ly in the Jits• ticejaice, tells me th at "Our Critic' makes therein huge display of a new nodding acquaintance with rules of Lance s y n tax, and talks to the author of inside Sebastopol" as Shakspeare's clown holds forth in " As as learnedly You Like It." 'Tis a sad thing that criticism,— Migret in obscuras huinili sermone tabernas. Where, 0 where are the Hazlitts, the Talfourds, the Ch a rles Lambs, the Fonblanques, th e L e i g h Hunts, the Wilsons, the Magtnns, the Fosters, who only yesterday, as it were, brought learning and genius to the ungentle tas k I—who knew how to pierce deeply with a graceful thrust, and who fought with a rapier, and not with sticks and stones. A few still linger pon the staff of the morning and evening papers, and often a flash of the old light streams along the columns of the Press or the Examiner. But the race is grown as rare as bustards, and perhaps for the same reason—it pays better to keep geese. There was a dignity in the suffering such men If-Aided : there is no dignity, .but much abasement, in holding up one's coat-tails and running through a pack of half-starved curs. There are some weekly, and monthly, and quarterly critics who must yet attack me. The book has sold largely and is quoted in all societies ; it cannot be ignored. The Squeeze, for instance, is bound by its party allegiance to cut me up, and, among ot h er s, .I hold the the Saturday Parade, and the only magazin e whic. .I.as any vitality in it , my d ebtors for an onsl au gb t. gently —but to do it cleverly. Let them, for the h ttonourft of their order, show that there is something beer le among us than the dull faculty of ignoran t contradiction pos sessed by the dreary Asinceum—which is more wretched -' - , in its lavishness because it has not the defence o poverty—or than the vulgar impertinence of its poor waning satellites, which merely illustrate the say ling of Franklin that it is diffi cu l t f or an empty sack to stand upright. I only ask them to show the understr ippers of criticism that betterness and pun gency and point, and the most telling critical dissection, are not inconsistent with good language ; and I should prefer that they would add the further illustration that severity is not incompatible with that courtesy which one gentleman thinks it for his own dignity to observe towards another. And now, having filled my space, "Heigh Presto ! Begone ! " I dismiss my critical assemblage. Our contemporaries are quite able to take care of themselves ; and we shall he amused to see how their " north side batteries " will return the fire from tho "inside of Sebastopol." THE LOSS OF THE POLYPHEMUS. Safety of the Missing Portion of the Crew. ADMIRALTY, FEB. [B. The following intelligence bas this day been re ceived at this office from H.M. Consul-General at Hamburg : " I have great satisfaction in reporting that the Quartermaster, Samuel Fletcher, and 15 seamen of the late Polyphemus, who were in the two boats, have been saved by a Danish vessel, and have just arrived from Hgerting. They will go in charge of the chief engineer, Mr. Wood, with the other men to London this evening. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(I`his Day.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Guildhall at Nisi Prius. (Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and a Special Jnry.) WATEINSON V. RONALD. This was an action brought to recover of the defen dant, one of the directors of the Australian Freehold Gold Mining Company, the amount of the deposit paid by the plaintiff on a number of shares in the above company, on the pleas of alleged fraud and no consi deration. The affairs of this company have alreadybesa the subject of investigation in the Court of Chancery. It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that, in January, 1852, he was induced, from a perusal of the company's prospectus, to believe that this was a bona fide concern, and that it was a golden opportunity of speedily becoming rich, without the risk, labour, and anxiety of a trip to the gold diggings. He consequently applied to a sharebroker of Halifax for one hundred shares. In due course he received the allotment, paid 30/. on account, and received scrip to that amount, purporting to come from the company. The prospectus stated that the capital of the company was to consist of 100,0001., in shares of 1/. each, and the undertaking to be worked on the cost-book principle, and each shareholder to b 3 liable only to the amount he subscribed for. The mine was stated to be situate on 500 acres of freehold land, abounding with quartz. The plaintiff had neither heard anything of the proceedings of the company nor seen any person connected with it from that time till about four months since, when his attention was attracted to it by something which he read in a newspaper. The Attorney-General, who appeared for the defen dant, took objection to the admission of certain letters purporting to be signed by W. Palsford, secretary of the company, on the ground that the directors of a com pany were not liable for the contents of letters written by their secretary without he first obtained their autho rity to do so, proof of which it was necessary for the plaintiff to give. The case was proceeding when our report left. ' THE MURDER AT ISLINGTON. Examination of the Prisoners—(This Day). This afternoon the two 'persons charged with being concerned in the above murder were placed at the bar of the Clerkon well Police-court, and gave the names of Carl Sommers and Celestine Sommers, The first witnesses examined were Inspector Hutton, of the N division, and the sergeant who took the pri soners into custody. Their evidence was to the effect that from circumstances that came to their hearing they proceeded to the house, 18, Linton-street, New North road, Holton, and there they found the body or the un fortunate girl in the coal-cellar with her throat cut, and that they tben took the two prisoners at the bar into custody. The principal witness examined was the girl who acted as housemaid to the woman. This person, from ques tions put to her, stated that on Saturday night last she was sleeping in the kitchen of the house, 18, Linton street, when the female prisoner entered the place and asked for the lucifers to light the candle. Having found the matches and procured a light she then heard her call the deceased downstairs: The girl said she did not like coining down stairs in the dark, as she was a stran ger in the house. The prisoner said, in reply, that she need not be frightened as she had a light. After this conversation she distinctly heard the prisoner go into the back kitchen and got a knife, and from the back kitchen she heard her go to the coal-cellar, under the pavement, and shortly after she heard the girl cry out, "You want to cut my throat," and the female prisoner said, in reply, tbatit didn't matter whether she cut it or anybody else. A struggle then seemed to take place, as she heard the woman say, "Keep your hands down ; you shall not tell any more lies about me or any. body else." After a short time all was quiet, and prisoner re-entered the kitchen and came close to her bedside and asked her questions about some money she had had in the early part of the evening. She looked before she spoke to her to see if she was asleep, and finding her awake and trembling violently, she made itie of the words she had related. After pacing backwards and forwards for a short time in the passage of the kitchen, her mistress bade her good night and went up stairs. Mr. Coward, a surgeon, residing at 6, St. John's-ter race, New North-rosd, deposed to the nature of the wounds upon the body of t'.e unfortunate girl. There was an extensive wound which occasioned death on the left side of the neck. It had been male by a sharp instrument, and it extended from the bapk of the neck to the front. There must have been some violent struggling, and the person inflicting the wound must have knelt on the girl, as the tight side of her person was covered with coal and dirt. It was impossible that a person committing suicide could inflict such a wound. The evidence confirmatory of the above has ing been given, The magistrate orderod the man to be discharged, and fully committed the `NOMAD. to take her trial for wilful murder. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) Lormoig, Feb. 18.—Wind this daf ‘..`.-• noon, N.E. ; fresh breeze and hazy. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Royal Charter and Kent, for Port-Philip. PILL, Feb. 17.—Wind S.E.. strong.—Sailed—English man, for Africa; British American, Crimea. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 17. The Don Antonio, hence to Car diff and Surinam, and the brig Success are ashore on Burbo. BELFAST, Feb. IG.—The Queen from Troon to Belfast, struck on the South Macedon Rock on the 13th inst., and sunk—crew saved. GRIMSBY, Feb. 17.—The masts and yards (appnreutiv new) of a shin of about 500 tons were passed on the Bth instant, by the Winecales, from Sunderland to Monte Video. Cinlz, Feb. 7.—The Edith (screw), of Dartmouth, from Seville to London, was wrecked on the coast near Cartaya, daring the late severe gale on the 10th instant—vessel and cargo lost. ItamsuATE, Feb. 17. Wind E. by S. to E.N.E.—Sailed .—Magnet, for West Indies ; Arethusa, Cape do Verd. DEAL, Feb. 18.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived from the river and sailed.—Deane, for Cape of Good Hope. COWES. — Sailed—Peterhof, for Havana. On ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.! SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Mousing. Arrived—Hopewell, from Sawanage ; Lm Poule, Cher bourg; Cicely, Effort, and Taunr, Sunderland. Sailed—lTaity, for Sunderland; Vectis, Elfreda, and Dangothland, Newport; Devonshire (str.), London; Argyll (str.), Carentan ; Johanna Elie (str.), Cardiff. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 16. Wind S. Arrived —Queen and Pandora, from Marseilles; Charlotte of Derby and Princess Victoria, Alexandria ; Ba!dos, Ra gusa ; Mary, Marseilles ; Swift and Martha, Alexandria ; Conqueror, Larache ; Azof, St. John's, N.B• _ -- BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) lizabeth, GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.59 a.m. Wind East, cloudy and fresh; tide three hour's ebb, Arrived, Feb. 17. 9 Lark, from Gijon ; Blessing, Erns. eels; Olive Von Wood and Sutliff, Rotterdam ; Acadia, Antwerp ; Maria, Lutken ; Alma, Christiania ; Gottenburg ; Diana, Marstrand ; Laura, Odense •; Engenie • S o phie, Aarhus ; Wa rble, Medemblick. DEAL, Monday, 9.41 a.m. Wind F.S.E., moderate. Passed, Feb. 17.—Ada, from London, for Mogador Queen of Freedom, Shields, Constantinople. Passed LlBth—Deane, from London, for Cape of Good Rope. The mortal remains of the late Bishop of Carlisle were ielefred on Tuesday last, in the village church of Dal- stop, adjoining the episcopal residence of the see. Mr. Behnes has received a commission to execute a statute of the late Edward Baines, of LeedF. The figure is to be 8 feet high, and the price is 700 guineas. The farewell stance given by Count Buol,3at Vienna, on th e I CO, was numerously attended. Prince COrtscba koff, Sir H. Seymour, and colonel de Mante l 4! °ll rica, a mong tho guests.