The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-28 00:00:00

)ay.) ETRE. .day wore but trley ; whilst ry full prices• tided extreme )r larhoot D ores for ship• market, last ceived 6,7 20 22 beans, 66 ks and 5,336 cheat, coast hut in fair rdvement in le molied 01 :r Ls realised 0 0 , ras not quit° prices were ;, but a bye :•age busines o ival to those ', not dearer. barley aas e trade than •ted. ro worth 80° full quota• Lad fair re• rks were the • •• 781 to SOS and Bed 225 241 • •• 24s 2 21 Cork __ •• •• 201 22 21s 250 ••.• 263 30e •• 33s 3 70 .... 33, 40 •• 32s 36. •• .• 35s 38 0 ;... 393 42i ••• 431 451 1e... 63s 6 51 •• 46a 5 01 rfolk 465 500 3 on a veil ead. In the s ; in 1854, 851,1,847; Oyes. Pigs. , 41 ... 14 ... -- 31 ... --• follows : res. Figs* 7 9 4 4 b 5 „. 5 73 sale in to• from Scot ts fresh UP tion of all )n(larice of ed hoavy• last, from and Cam• aorthorne; ads; from ts, almost sheep, and he mutton , yet that The best f the wool, n. m the Isle heavy, at 31bs. The te, moved best veal tationarf 4 5 g 2 5 0 2 5 8 4 4 2 4 4 8 O 29 0 0 27 0 • . 259 • 50 .... 73 ces of fat trket, on a Market i128,'566 1. s. d 0 2to 3 4 3 318 ) 4 4 5 4 0 3 4 2 3 418 5 8 5 0 3 6 8 5 2 5 8 I 4 2 I 4 0 4,155 19,600 ; slump 21,300; h both ing the s. (1. 3 10 4 2 4 6 5 0 4 8 we off other ibro'. cwt ; 15s. .stoes, he de -York )FI, 50s blues, IF., OIT E LI ARXE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed quietly with a steady feeling. The sales Vern estimated at 8,000 bales, 1,500 on speculation, comprising 200 Pernam and Maranham bid. to 60., 120 Bahia 61d. to 60., 100 Egyptian 7d. to find., 1,000 Surat.4-Id. to 51d., and 20 Sea Islands is. 6d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market prices were a shade lower. The English Stock Market has been somewhat agitated by a variety of unfavourable rumours, principally with reference to the New Loan, but it is likewise stated that a dissolution of Parliament will soon take place. Some large sales have been made, and a decline of 1 per cent. has occurred. Consols for money opened at 92i g, but they have since receded to 91k. For account prices have been 92 1 and since 92 to 921. The New 3 per Cents. hav e been 91i to 92, and 91i while the Reduced are about 90 The June Exchequer Bills have b een - is. discount, and India Bonds Bs. discount. In Some of the principal Foreign Securities there have been numerous transactions, but sales having again preponderated prices have taken a lower range. Turkish 6 per Cents. have receded fully 1 per cent.; the lowest quotation being about 95 ti i• The 4 per Cents. have been 1011 and 1001. Sardinian Bonds have been at 941 to 95, Spanish 3 per Cents, at 44, and the New Deferred at i 1 .2 31 ;All being at a reduced value. Dutch 4 per uents. are 93. The Railway Share Market is depressed, by sym- Pithy with the Funds, and the decline in some cases is to I per cent. In Brighton, North- Western, Midland, and North-Eastern, a large business has Leen done. The foreign and colonial lines are not so much affected, but they are mostly at nominal quotations. Foreign mining shares are neglected ; banking shares are heavy, and also the miscellaneous un dertakings. Canada Land aro 14 to 2/. lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Prom the Official List.) Rusin, done. 8 Per Cent. Red-iced Annuities .,.... 9ll I 90 4 190 Neer Cent. Consols Annuities ... 924 i 11 2 ~...w 3 per Cent. Annuities .... .......... .... 911 2 lg i i i a ew 2i per Cent. Annuities 75 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860: — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7 1-16 17 Ildie Bonds, £l060 veunols for Account Exchequer Bills, 2i3. March. June. , £l000 X5OO 2p 4d Rmall 3 p 4 d Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cont. 9Bl 8 Ditto, 1559 PItICE OF - FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE_ O'CLOCK Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. P aexiean 3 per Cent Sardinian Bonis, 5 per Cent. Scanisl. Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Yaw Deferred, 3 per Cent. SPanish Committee Cert. of Coup. nit fun 5 p c Tnrkian "ends, ti per cent 96s 4 5 6.} x d Ditto Account 96s i 1 x d Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account lOll Dividends on the above . ayable is Undon. Butch E xc h ange, 2} p er Cent., 12 Gull — Ditto 4. er Cent. Certificates lequador Peruvian,Dollar Bonds, 44 p. c 59 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Money Ditto Aceoun t ( May 8) 91. 1 1 2 928 LLOYD'S LV SHIPPING.—(This Day.) I it. LoNtlorr, April 23.—Wind this dry at noon, N. ; light breeze and fine. P ORTSMOLTTH, April 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Tar tar, from Liverpool, with two mortar-boats in tow. Sailed --Victoria and Albert, royal yacht, for Madeira; Pacific tpt.), Crimea ' • H.M.S.'s Dragon, Centaur, Trusty, and !sunder, Sheerness; H.M.S.'s.S.'s Conqueror and Centurion, Devon port. MARGATE, April 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived —Bury, "airing London, f or D u bli n , ass i s ted in, the masterand crew "airing been hurt by the windlass capsizing. CR OOKHAVEN.—Arrived—Colonist, from Callao, leaky; Plantagenet, Mauritius. MILFORD April 27—The Emerald, of and from Wick -I°,v, for Liverpool, was run down off Holyhead on the 24th inst. , by the Wallace, of Glasgow. (PER ELEOTRTO TELEGRAPH.) Z I SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. 5 Arrived—Adelaide, Atlas. Xerxes, and Eliza, from New- 21 Port ; J ess i e , Shi e ld s ; U n ity, Ru sse ll, T r i n it y , an d Th o . 10 ruts, Cardiff; Providence, Leith. Sailed—Devonshire (s.), for London ; Purveyor, Port- 5 land; Clara and Valiant, Cardiff. 9,1 (Br titIBMARINIC AND BRITISH TELFGRAPg.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.26 a.m. Wind N.E. ; tide, 3 hours' ebb ' • cloudy. Arrived, April 27.—Inez, from Calcutta; President Filli more, New York ; Mary Ann, Memel. Arrived, Apr it 28.—Carolinda, from Cherbourg ; Alma, Danzi g . Sailed, 27th—Sovereign of the Seas, for New York. DEAL, Monday, 10.12 a.m. Wind N.E. by N., fresh. Passed—Leopeldina, from Shields, for Oporto ; High bury, Shiels, for Gibraltar. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort rode on horseback on Saturday morning, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a li e in an open carriage and four. I R.' Royal Highness Prince Albert presided at a meet .ll ig of a Committee of the Royal Commissioners for the xhibition of 1851, at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday. ,I the other members present were the Earl of Derby, 144 Granville, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Over at 'one, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. J 5. Disraeli, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 11 : P., and Mr. Coulson, Q.C. Ylr. Edgar Bowring, Secretary to the Royal Commis sioi.4 was in attendance. T. be meeting., which took place at 11 o'clock, broke 13 P a a quarter to 2. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Arth , lr and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a driv e i n the afternoon in an open carriage and: four. The E querries in Waiting attended on horseback. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort, ac companied by the Princess Royal, honoured the Royal Malian Opera with their presence in the evening. In attendance were the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. M ary Seymour, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Byron, Lord Alt red Paget, and Col. F. H. Seymour. Yesterci'ay her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Co osort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Allied, the Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household at tended Divine service in the chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor offi ciated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at her residence, Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James Murray, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. The Royal British Bank will open on the Ist of May a liolborn branch at the corner of Chancery-lane. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—Since the proclamation of peace the rate of exchange has been rapidly going down from 137 to 120 piastres the pound sterling. WARSAW, April 25.—General Prince Goitschalcoff has just published a decree maintaining the prohibition against the exportation from Poland of rye, barley, oats, wheaten flour, and cattle. The reason assigned for this measure is the existing dearness and scarcity of those articles. Talc AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.--The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain W. J. C. Lang, sailed from the Mersey this afternoon for Boston and Hal fax, with the usual Mails for the United States and Canada, 131 passengers, and a full cargo of valuable merchandise on freight. SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. — The private view of this society's exhibition took place on Saturday, previous to its being opened to the public this day (Monday), and was attended by a numerous and fashionable company of the aristocracy. Among the distinguished visitors we noticed the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Wellingtln, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Duke and Duchess of Northum• berland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Earl Grosvenor, Earl and Countess Grey, the Archbishop of Canterbnr', the Bishops of Oxford, Win chester, and Lichfield, Viscount and Viscountess Chel sea, Earl and Countess Jetiey, Lady Peel, Lady Mac idonald, Lord and Lady Monteagle, the Right lion. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labouchere, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of A!derley, the Hon. Mrs. Sey mour Bathurst, &c. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thunday, April 24 :—Williarn Louis Le Sage, Hayle, Cornwall; Joseph Evaqs Smith, Winches ter ; John Harker, Kendal, Westmoreland ; George Mann, Birmingham ; 'Wilson Fox, Wellington, Somer setshire ; Walter James Winn, Manchester ; William Allis Smith, Mablethorpe, ; Thomas Da?. a ton, Bartia,rd Cagle ; Nieholio AvEnt, Modbury, Devon ; Bernard C-gan, Ireland; John Bake Husband, Ilideford Devon ; Ja mes B oy d , B e i t h , Scatland ; Re. bert Cambell Dow, Holmfirtb, near Liuddersiield. ..:,~. (THIS DAY.) R AILWAYS. hr. Paid RAILWAYS. i 3t. IC A; 1b0rdcen„.......„ 122 8a tunbg. Nottug. 864 and Eastn. Junct 3.-Ifant 5.7, Ballymena 'lrming. Wolverh & Stour Valley 296 Birk eAlui. Lancet: & Cheshire Janet 1 ;11 Do. Chesb. & Birk. £5O and 225 Cons 19 Do., £20...... ..... ... all ;Byth &Tyne origina £25 (isad. at £4i -100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian... ..... 61s. harm. and Cardigan all Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, et Palm 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B la CrieT Junction ...... 45 Dublin&BelfastJune all Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc 100 East Anglian ......... all Eastern Counties 100 East. Union, A SO 100 De., B. Steet 8 Do., Now A.....:, 10 Bast Kent 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh& Glasgow all Edinb. and Pedbles.. 100 Edin. Prth & Dna cior 9 Forth & Clyde Jun !. all Furness all Do. Extension ... 100 Glasgow &S. West , all Great N. of Scotlnd. 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock ...... 100 1)o., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ), 1100 Great Western I 'lOO Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Iriah South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14# Do., Thirds 8 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash. andYorksh 4 Do., Wet. Biding Uri all iLiv.Crshy.&Southpt all London & Blackwall, 100 Lond.Bright &S.Cst. 100 Loud, and N. Weatn 16 Do, Fifths 52 D0.101.3h.,111&8...C' 2a De. Eighths,. 100 1 ' London and S. Westn. all 1,D0., £50...... , '4 all 13i all i 0 all Do., £40.. 5 all Lndndrry&Coleraine all Lndndny. & Bnnisk. 100 Iteanch.Shef.& tits. Do., Man. it Lin. Um 1 Metropolitan 100 lidland . 100 /o. Birnang. &Derb3 all Mild. Q. West. (Ire, all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle all Nwpt.Aberg. &He'd 83 Newry &Enniskilleu all Newry Warrenpoint sod Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 3i Northn.CountiesUn 100 North British Nth Devon Rail. & 100 Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock all Do., B Stock , all Do., B Guarantee 100 N. astern—Berwic 214 Do. do. Extension „. 15 Do.do. ?moll all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 31 is N.&S.Wstrn.,llamt read, and City Ju 17i North Staffordshire; ali North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June, Unnenton, Hinckley, and Leicester.....,, . 100 Or., Wore., & Wolv. 8 Pr.rtsmouth 100 Scottish Central,.. 100 Scottishlifidland.... 100 Shropshire Union all South Devon 100 South Eartern 100 South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Duo 5 Do 16 Staires,Wok. &Wok al Stockton & Darli 16: StoAton & Hartlep' 110 Taff Vale... 100 Do. Pref., No. 9.2 19- Mmes r[P.T. D.SZ R Ulverstone & Lanes all Vlle of Ncath all Watered. & KilkenT, all Waterford&Lirner:cl all West Cornwall. all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A 3 Do. B all West London. all Wimbledn &Croydon SHARE MARKETS. FOR kutwr;:s6zll.ott. ra.Lu Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sli. atpar till '64 Ardennes 3olgian Eastn. June 3eziers to Grai sse spa Bombay, Baroda, an Central India,&ll.l Do. 1 I Demerara Dutch Rhenish Fastern of Franco 'Do. New !ad Inaian, g. 6 p. Do. 11:ytengint.. D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 ' Do. (I). do., 'M), , Geelong Melbourne guar. 5 per c nt. . Do., Lon. allot., do. ,Gd. Tk of Canad 3A is Do. ..................... Do. Cert. of Debora. con. into Stk. Do. Comp. 6 p. 0., do at. C6Ltral of France Gt. Indiclu Pouinsnl; Great Luxembourk Constituted Share Do. Obligations... , Do. re-is. forftd. Sh.. Gt.Westernof CannOal Do. New Do. llds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Dc.. do., '73, without option Llamilton Le Torontr , Do. pct. cent. I.ako Count. & 13asl , Liorre and Turnhout Lucca & Pist. 5 p. c. p. Lyons and Gcneva Lyons 4 Tfediterran Niadrar, guar. 4 S p.c Do. New 0., sp. c, Do. 44 p. c. Est= Maria Antonia Do. do. Now N sanur Liege (with Interest) — Do. (ex interest) 'iorthern of Francs D 0.201. She Do. £Ol. 3 p. o lade (fmy.B. & Ams. Shs. iforwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans , Rome and Frascati Royal D , inish RoyaiSwedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse,.. Do. 51 p. cent. Prof. Sciud , , guar. 5 p. c Do Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A),. West Flanders Do 5A per c. Pref... W. & N. W. of Flliflet West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand Closing Prices this day 25} 26 . 3i sa 9 16 - 17 15. - 16 121 13, 88 - so 5 8i - .59, t4i •.. •••• .., 16 - 17 - 6i 33 - 35 23 - 25 76 - i - 7 - 8 60 - 62 26i 88 - 92 7 - 8 93 - 94 78 - 79 [24 - 126 102 - 104 601 61 70 75 6 7 p 5i GA 87 a• 87i ,•• • • 6i LOL - 103 994- 100 d * d * pi 934 - 94 ""' sof 27f - 27 - 72i - 73 12 - 44 ..... ••• [3~ - i~~ ... 53 - 55 3 i - Sv 33 ~. 34 751 - 764 64 : - 6 3' - 3i 15 - 16 54* 87 - 91 - Ghd 51 64 101 25 - 27 103 - 105 75 - 77 45 - 47 14 -- 15 89i - 704 71 - 73 4 - 2 1i - 10 - 8 36 -- 37 .•• "" 19i -- 201 4 -- 5 6- 7 6 - 8 - 2 5 -56 p - 6 : *i IGiN. # 8i - 8i par 2 p 5A 6 2 21 • I 11 - li, p - 411 23 - 23 22i - 2 8} - 7i.i 16 - 174 75 - 77 86 - 87 8} - 8 1? 211 - 221 6 - 0 3i - 3i 25 3 / 4 - 26 2 -31 f 99 - 100 122 - 127 122 - 127 108 109 25 - 123 - 128 - . • -12 i 19i - 20 lt - 11 it •-• 1? 7 - 5i - BA 41, - 42 12i - 12 i 561 - 561 = EC io = if 11i - 12 9. - 10 2 - 2i ... - pm 4i- 5 35i - 361 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ,I 1 p Anstrida.,in 5 Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London !Sri. Col. lik.San. C. ,ji Britiil N. American 5 , :lhaytd. Bank of Asia 4 Ohrtd. Bnk. of India, kaatralia, & China 50 City 25 Colon'al 20 rlonimereial of Lond 411 ag.S_cet.&A.ns.Cht all ILond. Chart. Bk. Anotrr.lia 5 Ditto New 20 T..-;, , Adon and Conn - yL 50 Lint (kz E. Bnk g. Col p. l 10 fsondon Joint S °A -10 London and Paris._ 20 toad. & stei 35 National Pro.of Eng 10 Do. New 22 Natimial of IroLtud all 'few Scuth Wales all Oriental Bank )f Corporatl , n 5 Ottoman Bank 50 Royl.l British i ':at , 411 mion Anetr ?Ea.. A rtf). New 10 anion of London a Wostoru BX of Lone 93 -- 94 63 - 65 ••• - . i .-1 p 6 7. al' 15 16. E 17 —17 ii 3 2di ''• ,par 2p 2d ~ ""• .• 41 - ii 42 - 43 I 65 - 71 74 G - 4 oaeW St St. St. St. 20 10 124 St, 50 50 25 00 20 5 20 18 10 all 14 4i all 22:1 9) %11 14 all 14 Business done this day. 59 8f 61i 1 601 87 i 101 i 2 1i 2 100 99 f i 91 34 4 271 i 73 a 3 21 531 4 334 3 761 51 ill 154 54 5 41 54 14 70,f i 691 Si i I 21 12k I Si 2O 144 1 221 ai i I so I 20 251 f I St, 20 8i 101 i i 121 111 12 21 I 2, 331 31i 2 71 I 2 51 1 1 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1856: THE QUARTERLIES. —analogous and not less marked for a great man who has married for love. The French, we are told, were disappointed because the Emperor had not married a Royal Princess ' • the English would have deemed it a derogation fro m }, is personal grandeur if he had. One thing was wanting to the popularity of George 111, with the masses—that he should have married Lady Sarah Lennox in place of .a cold and : unattractive German. - '' 'WS 'one 'crowning claim Louis Napoleon had ; and by that, more than by almost any one other characteristic, did he captivate the sympathies of the middle and lower classes of our ,island. And, in addition to all this, and as a final clue to the explanation of the offensive pheno menon, it cannot be denied that the open, straight forward, cordial, honourable dealing of the Emperor . with thi s country ever - silica' he became our ally, was felt by our statesmen to present a most welcome ani favourable contrast with the circumstances which bad marked our intercourse with the French Court under both branches of the House of Bourbon." A criticism which will be wonderfully welcome to the heart of Mr. Payne Collier, enrolls the Edinburgh Review formally among the organs, ac cepting as reasonably admissible the authority of the anonymous " Corrector of Shakspere." Among other things of note the reviewer, speaking of Sha,kspere's apparent indifforence as to his re putation, says very impressi vOly : "The great dramatist himself took no steps whatever to prepare his plays for printing ; be left his manuscripts with his associates, and buried himself in his Stratford acres, with an apathy which— ' Were it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride,' has something of the awful in it, when we reflect oa the gigantic fame of the man and the real nothingness of fame." RAILWAYS. Leas ist , Compans Otoatui Mans Satardaj. 11 as nes s this day. The Edinburgh Review. No. CCX,—Out of the eight articles making up the contents of number 210 of the Edinburgh, there are three of them for all the world just exactly like " hamlet without the part of Hamlet among the dramatis persona!" First and lorenfdst - tli - ere is the introductory con tri-' bution relating to " Modern English History," and haVing reference' in it to Henry Richard Lord Holland, to Lord M'ahon, now Earl of Stanhope, to my Lord John Russell, to the Duke of Bucking ham and Chandos, K.G., to every one, in fact, but the very one whose name is popularly identified most immediately with Modern English History— Thomas Macaulay I Then there is an elaborate paper upon "The Greek People and the Greek Kingdom" —and not a - whisper in it abOut the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse, her Britannic Majesty's Ambas sador to the Court of Athens during all these years of anxiety, intrigue, and discontent I Lastly, there is an argument about the " Aus trian Concordat," and not a syllable of allu sion during the whole course of it to the four lectures delivered not very long ago in London by Cardinal Wiseman —lectures presenting to our English public in a condensed form one rather im portant side of that same argument ! Hamlet —we repeat—without the Prince of Denmark ! It is ra ther significant, we cannot but think, that the great Whig organ, just at this particular time, when our rulers are beginning to practise all kinds of ridiculous courtesies towards Russia, should begin puffing up those contemptible Greeks the expense of the recently eulogised but now-once more-depreciated Osrnaulis—the Edinburgh Review saying of the Greeks, in set terms of panegyric, " this race is rapidly increasing in wealth, intelli gence, and power, whilst its former oppressors are sinking into decrepitude 1" The old stock phrase of abuse used usque ad nauseam before the recent war broke out, a phrase that, by repetition upon repetition, prepared the way positively for that rascally hypothesis of the late Caar about the sick man and the division betimes of his property among his more powerful neigh bours. It is revolting to mark the revival of the old babble so very soon in the midst of the banging of the preposterous squibs and crackers of rejoicing over a disgraceful compromise. In the very preamble of the paper upon the Austrian Concordat the following remarkable allusions are made by the writer of the article to the glorious dawn of the present very memorable Pontificate : "The Pontificate of Pius IX. has already exhibited to the world a series of vicissitudes hardly to be equalled in the long annals of the Papacy, and of contradictions not to be surpassed in this age of sudden changes and sur prising revolutions. For the first. time since the death of Ganganelli, Europe hailed the election of a Pontiff to the chair.of St. Peter, who addressed himself to popu lar sympathies, and seemed eager to advance with the liberal progress of the 19th century. He owed his no mination to the blameless purity of his life, and to the influence of the constitutional government of France, which was at that time represented in Rome by an am bassador of no common discernment. He was enthroned in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, amidst the veneration of the clergy and the enthusiastic applause of the people. His first actions were calculated to improve the degraded condition of the Roman Government in the Papal States, and to vindicate its independence even against the preponderating influence of the Austrian garrisons in Northern Italy. But few mouths had elapsed after the Pope's acces.,ion, when that storm broke loose which convulsed the poli tical fabric of Europe, and unhappily laid low so many of the free institutions of the Coutinent. At that awful mement, when more powerful Sovereigns and more vi gorous Governments fell in rapid succession, before the excited populace of,their capitals, the Pope still rode for a time upon the eddies of the stream, and lent his voice to consecrate the cause of Italian liberty and indepen deuce. Besides the seven articles already specified in our remarks, there is an eighth of an eminently readable Character relating to " Sir Isaac Newton," a paper half criticism, half biography. The Quarterly Review. No. CXCVI. Usually there are two or three stock-themes in he current number of the 'quarterly reviews and monthly magazines —precisely as there are the same important- and unimportant fragments of intelligence given to the public simulta neously in the daily and weekly newspa pers. It is so just now, as under ordinary circumstances, with regard to the Tory Quarterly and the Whig Edinburgh. Both contain onslaughts upon Mr. John Ruskin by reason of his recent issue of additional portions of his magnum opus about " Modern Painters." Both—again—com prise among their contents certain rather stringent strictures anent the views lately expressed by M. de Montalembert in an extended. pamphlet, or, as it may be other wise termed, a moderately-sized volume, as to the " Political Future of Great Britain." The estimate formed in reference to the latter by the Quarterly reviewer who has taken M. de Montalembert's brochure in hand, is rather disparaging upon the whole—but then some critics, it must be borne in mind, are neces sarily, perversely, and cross-grainedly—Crokers ! According to this view of the work, Englishmen have no reason to be at all solicitous as to the value set upon their institutions, or as to the nature of the hopes and fears entertained, by M. de Montal embert iu regard to their future—the great, thun dering, infallible Boanerges of the Quarterly roar ing out against one of the most eminent of living Frenchmen this terrible interdict—" We have little confidence in his judgment of either men or things, and we look on his work as a mere half-fanatical, half-rhetorical essay." Thi n ki ng th us o f Montalem bert and his writings, why on earth has this very critic taken such notorious pains to supervise the translation of the political brochure in question—why ? Bat for the rather malignant purpo e of wilfully distorting the mean ing of the original in its transformation into our English vernacular ! And why, having this rather contemptuous opinion of both book and author— why, after voluntarily undertaking the task of intro ducing him, through a deforming medium, to the British public—why take the supplementary trou ble of analysing at some length a volume so en tirely worthless in its character and tendencies— why f But that, here again, some little opportunity was afforded to the acrid translator and the sour-tempered reviewer for avenging himself spitefully upon one Abraham Hayward for certain sharp and caustic gibes hurled at him (and at somebody else of another and more definite gender than the epicine) through the columns of the' Times newspaper At least so it appears—if we are not very wide of the mark in viewing this same Quarterly Reviewer' as decidedly and beyond all manner of doubt—a Croker. Speaking of Mr. Ruskin hardly less severely than that critic's critic: in the Edinburgh, another reviewer in the Quar terly says of him very happily—" Mr. Ruskin's writings have all the qualities of premature old age, the coldness, callousness, and contraction." A definition we cannot but regard as, all things considered, wonderfully felicitous. Yet the writer is by no means blind to the beauties of the great object of Mr. Ruskin's idolatry—or indifferent consequently to the subject of the major part of his enthusiasm. For example the Quarterly reviewer thus ingeniously enumerates the many admirable qualities of various eminent landscape painters only to accord to Turner the highest place of all—if for no other reason for that of his combining in his marvellous paintings so many hitherto scattered excellences. Saith the critic : " Prince Metternich declared in his- exile that of all the strange and astounding phenomena he had wit nessed, that which had surprised him most was a libe ral Pope.' But the illusion was a brief one. In the re action which followed that paroxysm of madness, the Roman Government was the first to recoil from the task it bad undertaken. The revolution, which had been mo mentarily assisted and controlled bythe valour of Charles Albert, and by the adhesion of Pio Nono to the national cause, soon dimerted its champions, and turned upon them with as much fury as it had shown against its mortal enemies. The Pope, betrayed by his troops and attacked by his subjects, saw one of his secretaries shot by his side in the Quirinal, whilst his minister, Count Rossi—a man who combined the loftiest conceptions of a statesman with the most courageous devotion to the cause of his native country—fell, butchered on the steps of the Cancelleria." The sequel to all this is held vividly enough in the popular remembrance. The exile at Gaeta, and the . Gallic bombardment of the eternal city from the Janiculum—consequent upon which incidents the spiritual domination of the Papacy is described by the reviewer as having been more signally than ever demonstrated throughout Christendom, embracing "all nations, from the frontie rs o f Thihet and the most distant islands of the Pacific to the great cities of Europe." A suggestive theme in truth all . this for very serious contem plation ! "Body and Mind" is the title of a very enthralling essay tracing the connection between the two—an union the physical part of which is thus cleverly described : ," Every bone of the spine is a thick ring ; and these bones, when placed upon each other, form not only what is called the vertebral column, but also a canal.' Within this strong bony canal is placed the spinal cord —medulla or marrow, in popular phrase, —which is continuous upwards with the brain, and downwards with the nerves going off to the limbs and trunk. The brain and this spinal cord constitute the great centres of all sensorial and motive action ; hence they are termed the cerebro spinal axis.' It is in and by and through this axis that the mind operates and receives the impressions of the senses ; and its various channels of communication with the external world are the multitudinous nerves of motion and sensation which, passing off in innumer able and microscopically minute fibrils from the axis, ramify over the whole surface of the body, and penetrate every muscular fibre." " Gaude had set the very sun in the heavens ; Cuyp bad depicted the ratified pulsation of still-noon heat, and the solemn all massing vapour of a golden after noon ; Berghein hai piled up those stately masses which the winds drive together, and then leave for hours un disturbed ; Poussin had gathered the thunder-charged clouds, showing deep within the lurid chamber whence the bolt is ready to fall ; Rubens hal spanned the rain bow ; Wiisou had painted daylight in every gradation, from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same ; Ruysdael had given the sky which heightens the idea of solitude ; Van de Welde and Backhuysen, that which we most remark at sea—each had their favourite phase best in keeping with their favourite object ; while to Turner was reserved not only the desire of expressing every phase (excepting always the unfathomable vault of the early masters), and of rendering every form of cloud that floats under heaven, but also of arresting those evanescent and fantastic forms of vapour and mist which never had been aimed at before." Besides these, of course, others might readily enough have been enumerated—such as Salvator, with his wild and rocky fastnesses ; and Hobbima, with his green and twinkling verdure ; and Cana letto, with his glancing water courses, and others, the dii minores of pastoral and sylvan scenery, and glimpses of river and ocean ; Ert Veest, and Gia como Cavedone, and Bartholomew Briemberg, and Paul Potter, and the Brills, Paul and Matthew, and Phillipo d'Angeli, and the like—but those already mentioned were obviously of them selves more than sufficient. Sufficient, more than sufficient, to satisfy even Mr. Ruskin's greed of praise for the greatest of all English, per haps in truth as the Oxford Graduate has all along maintained the greatest of all English or Foreign painters of landscapes. Does anybody want to know anything at all about " The Haldanes ?' If so—here is a very readable—" full, true, and par ticular account" of Robert of Airthrey, and of his brother James Alexander—sons of a Captain in the H.E.I.C.M.S. "Lewis on Early Roman His tory" seems destined to form a companion volume to Niebuhr—just as, in reference to English His tory, Hume's name is coupled inextricably with Smollett's. Pity it seems that an ingenious philo logist and antiquary like the right hon. member for Radnor burghs should forsake his natural post as a shrewd commentator upon Livy and Tacitns for the purpose of assuming a most unnatural position for him, namely, that of a bungling and crotchetty Chancellor of the Exchequer. Let us cherish the hope that before long he may once more take up with Facts instead of with Figures. A chapter on " British Family Histories" introduces the readers of the Quarterly successively to such houses as the Bigots, the Shirleys, and the Lind says. Besides the five articles already particula larised in this new number there are three other rather noticeable contributions yet remaining to be mentioned. There is a treatise on the " Peace " considered in regard to its effects upon the condi tion of Turkey. There is an amazing paper en titled "The Triton and the Minnows,' descriptive of Scott Russell's monster vessel the Great Eastern Screw-and-Paddle Steam-ship a perfect mam moth in its way, as is glaringly demonstrated upon page 4.45, where six little outline woodcuts show at a glance how comparatively trivial, as compared with this huge sea-monster are—(in in creasing proportions) one of the gun boat flotilla, the Great Western, the Great Britain, the Persia, or even H.M.S. (131 guns) the Duke of Welling ton ! Frivolous productions these latter really seem to be when contrasted with a gigantic vessel like the Great Eastern—"rushing through the night in full career—an arrow 27,000 tons in weight, propelled by a bow of 3,000-horse power!" A ship twice the size of the Ark !—" receiving on board flocks and herds to furnish fresh meat for the passage !" A vessel capable of " bringing home our 50,000 troops from the Crimea, with all their artillery and baggage, in the course of ten or twelve days !" Finally, to complete our catalogue of the eight articles in this current num ber of the Quarterly, there is a very clever and caustic review of " Southey's Letters," as edited and selected by the Rev. John Wood Warier, Vicar of West Tarring—Vicar (one could almost fancy him to be, now that we have read this searri fving criticism of his literary labours)—Vic ar ( a t once we may be allowed to hint) of Tarri ng an d Feathering ! Speaking of recent biographi ca l works of a very absurd character generally, the reviewer remarks upon one of them— " The last sacrifice to pretentious incapacity is James Montgomery of Sheffield, an excellent man and a re- speotable poet, where virtues and verso combined un- Out of this essay grows up a suggestion as to the meaning of insanity which appears to us about the most ingenious within the range of our recollection. An explanation it is dependent upon the duplex character of the brain as an anatomical structure— upon the exact balance, or exquisitely nice adjust ment, of whose moieties the sanity of thought and sensation may reasonably be presumed to be de pendent. And consequently — ou t of the disorgani pation of which balance or adjustment of the twin lobes of the brain—insanity, or at the least monomania, may readily enough be under stood to emerge as an inevitable result. 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"After having made a lame by hanging on t ) the skirts of a famous artist—after deluding thole craving for novelty into the belief that a dashing style must imply precious discoveries —after having met the humour of the time, by preaching the religion of architec ture with a freedom in the use of sacred names and sacred things from which a more reverential man would have shrunk—after having served as an eloquent though too flattering guide to the treasures of Venice—after having enriched the citizens of this Scottish metropolis with re ceipts how to amend the architecture of our city by patching Palladian squares, streets, and crescents with Gothic windows, balconies, and pinnacles—after having lectured to decorators on the beauty and virtue of paint ing illegible letters on sign-boards and shop-fronts—the wisdom of Mr. Ruskin has of late begun to cry in the streets." "Royal Academy Speaking of Mr. Ruskin's Vade Mecum. of 1855," the reviewer declares in its regard " rarely has vanity, so overweening in stature, so unblushing iu front, so magisterial in language risen up between a writer and his public." During the course of a criticism upon recent effu sions of " Remusat and nontalembert," another contributor to the Whig Quarterly, thus explains for the benefit of the bewildered Bourbonists and Republicans of Franco—the enthusiasm of— ENGLAND'S RECEPTION OF NA.POLTION 111. " Three or four causes contributed to its enthusiastic character. In the first place we received him, without reference to himself or his antecedents, as the ruler and representative of our great rival nation, with which we had then for the first time formed an offensive and defen sive alliance of the closest intimacy. We were anxious to show to France how hearty was our friendship; how sin cere our reconciliation ; how generous and earnest our de sire to bury in oblivion all former jealousies and animosi ties ; how unfeigned our delight at a union on which we in stinctively felt, and deliberately and profoundly believe, so much of the future welfare of Europe and of humanity must hang. Next, it should ba remembered that Eng lishmen have a peculiar and inveterate admiration for all who have raised themselves —who are the sons of their own deeds—the architects of their own fortunes. We always do honour to the man, be he lawyer, soldier, or politician, who has risen from nothing. To this feeling was added a vivid recollection of all that was romantic and picturesque in the history of the man then making in a royal his progress through unexampled crowds carriage ; how ho who was now the Queen's guest had once been a special constable in London street.{ —how he who was now Emperor of the first nation of the Con tinent, had seven years before been a poor and obscure exile on our shores. In all this, it must be admitted, there was much to excite the imagination and to excuse the somewhat extravagant ebullition of welcome which waited on his progress through the city. Let, again, much of this enthusiasm was due to the lady who accom panied him. Had he come without his Empress, his reception would have been decidedly less warm. Her history, no less than her rare grace and beauty, contri buted to this result. If the English people have a weakness for a man who has raised himself from an obsure position, they have another weakness t doubtedly entitled him to a brief memoir. Instead cf record in some proportion to his claims, four volumes of a bulky life, for which a Mr. John Holland is chiefly responsible, though it bears a second name upon the title-page, have already appeared, and two more at least are yet to come. So gigantic a monument to a person of no particular eminence provokes ridicule of "- and the sentiment becomes one of disgust when the long drawn narrative is found mainly to consist of verbose, pompous, dreary inanities. The poet speaks for himself in his works, hut the man, to his lastinginjury, is judged by the medium through which he is seen, which is that of his feebiv, and incapable biographer." Mr. Wood Warter fares rather worse, however, we cannot but think-, altogether, than even Mr. John Holland—and, alas ! deservedly. He is, in fact, loudly and haughtily denounced by the Quar terly Reviewer as a writer who "has not the art of eKpressing himself with clearness"—as a writer afflicted with "utter incompetency for this or any other literary undertaking" —as a writer with " total want of the most ordinary perspicacity" —as a writer affording us at one moment a "ludicrous exhibition of hopeless nonsense"—and at another preserving for us what if not " rejected for its pro fanity" ought at any rate to have been "suppressed for its dullness !" So much for the latest; Dumber of the Quarterly, with its cordial reprolbatio❑ the "solemn silliness" of the Vicar of Tarring and Feathering ! LITERATURE. The Lion-Hunter of South Africa. By Roualeyan Gordon Cumming. John Murray, Albemarle street. It is seldom that we look on any cheap edition which comes before us with ungracious feelings ; but we are obliged to confess, after having glanced at Mr. Cumming's book, reduced in form and price from the two original volumes—we are obliged to confess, we repeat, that this glance at the con tents has so operated on our common-place nerves that we cannot give it a welcome as a valuable auxiliary to the useful and pleasing legion of cheap works now presented to the public. Yet we are not fastidious in our hunting tastes. We have not shrunk from flinging a harpoon in the Northern waters, nor from cracking a rifle in the Indian jungle. Sport is a noble and inspiring excitement for men, provided the sport be indulged in for the oecasioual love of that excitement, or for the neces sary commercial supplies of civilisation ; but when it is evident that a savage love of blood, and ferocious monomania for killing, rather than any real view to temperate change of pursuit, or profitable traffic, impel a human being to wage wanton and systematic slaughter against the brute crea tion, the question may occur whether the ma jestic quadrupeds—preying and slaying from hun ger and instinct only—are not allied to almost as elevated a race as the self-elected butcher of them. Me. Cumming must, indeed, be a wonderful hero, if all related in his adventures he true. Our latent hope is that the mighty modern Nimrod has put a fabulous account upon the booksellers' counters to test how much the appetite of novelty devourers will swallow of monstrous invention and unwholesome imaginative stimulant. We trust that he has only wished to resuscitate the curdling horror experienced in our Story Book days—turn ing himself into the merciless " Bluebeard"—mak- Mg Southern Africehis "Secret Chamber," and tak ing lions, tigers, leopards, rhinoceroses, antelopes, giraffes, wolves, hyenas, ostriches, and endless others of the God-created things for his wives. The Fatimas of curiosity will find the key to the territie_scene iu Mr. Cumming's work, and whether they drop it, as the lady of old did, or not, we think they will find it unpleasantly marked with sanguinary stains. We fear we may touch the weakness of some of our tender-hearted readers ; but in support of the opinion we have advanced, we give a moderate specimen of the author's de scriptive power, and his decided manner of secur ing his game : " I soon found fresh spoor,- and after holding on for several miles came, just, as the sun was going down, upon the fresh lairs of four hippopotami. They had been lying asleep on the margin of the river, and hearing me come crackling through the reeds, plunged into the deep water. lat once saw that they ware newly started, for the froth and bubbles were still on the spot where they had dashed in; and next moment I heard them blowing a little way down the river. I then headed them, but with consider. able difficulty, owing to the cover and the reeds, and at length came down right above where they were standing. It was a broad part of the stream, with a sandy bottom, and the water came half-way up their sides; there wore three cows and an old bull, and, though alarmed, they did not appear aw ere of the extent of the impending danger. " I took the sets-cow next me, and with my first ball gave her a mortal wound, knocking loose the great plate on the top of her skull, when she commenced plunging round and round, add then occasionally remained still, sitting for a few minutes on the same spot. On hearing the report of my rifle two of the others took up stream, and the fourth dashed down the river, trotting along at a smart pace, like oxen, as long as the water was shallow. I was now in a st ate of very great anxiety about my wounded sea-cow, for I feared that she wound got into deep water, and bo lost like the two last. To settle the matter, there • fore, I fired a second shot from the bank, which, entering the roof of her skull, passed out through her eye ; after which she kept constantly splashing round and round in a circle in the middle of the river. I had great fears of the crocodiles, and did not know whether the sea-cow might not attack use ; my anxiety to secure her, however, over came all hesitation, so, divesting myself of my leathers, arid armed with a sharp knife, I dashed into the water, which at first took me up to my arm-pits, but tee middle was shallower. "Ac I approached Behemoth I halted for a moment, ready to dive under the water if she attacked me ; but though her e)e looked very wicked, she was stunned, and did not know what she was doing ; so, running in upon her, and seizing her short tail, I attempted to incline her course to land. It was extraordinary what enormous strength she still had in the water ; I could not guide her in the slightest degree, and she continued to splash, plunge, and blow, and make her circular course, carrying me along with her, as if I was a fly on her tail. Finding this gavo me but a poor hold, I took out nay knife, and, as the only means of securing her, cut two deep parallel incisions through the skin on her stern, and lifting this skin from the flesh, so that I could get in my two hands, I made use of it as a handle ; and alter some desperate hard work, sometimes pushing and sometimes pulling, the sea-cow continuing her circular course all the time, and I holding on like grim Death, eventually succeeded in bringing this gigantic and most powerful animal to the bank. My Bush man now brought me a stout buffalo-rheiin from my horse's neck, which I passed through the opening in the thick skin, and moored Behemoth to a tree ; I then sent a ball through the centre of her head, and she was num bsred with the dead." Mr. Cumming's delight at his murdering the h treeless and beautiful giraffes is something quite refreshing. Our readers may like to know how he managed one of them : " The g round was firm and fav oura bl e f or r idi ng, a t every stride I gained upon the giraffes, and after a short burst at a swingeing gallop was in the middle of them, and turned the finest cow out of the herd ; finding herself driven from her co nradee and hotly pursued, she increased her pace, and cantered alone with tremendous stridem, clearing an amazing extent of ground at every bound, while her neck and breast, coining in contact with the dead old branches of the trees, were continually strewing them in my path. In a few minutes I was riding within five yards of her stein, and, firing at the gallop, sent a bullet into her back ; increasing my pace, I next rode alongside, and, placing the muzzle of my rifle within a few feet of her, fired my second shot behind the shoulder—the ball, however, seemed to have little effect. I then placed my self directly in front, when she came to a walk, and dis mounting, I hastily loaded both barrels, putting in a double charge of powder ; but before I was ready she was off at a canter. In a short time I brought her to a stand at fifteen yards in the dry bed of a watercourse, and fired, aiming where I thought the heart lay, upon which she again started ; having reloaded, I followed, and had very nearly lost her, for she turned abruptly to the left, and was far out of sight among the trees. Once more I brought her to a stand, and dismounting, gazed in wonder at ker ex t reme beauty, while her soft dark eye, with its silky fringe, looked down imploringly at me : I really felt a ping of sorrow in this moment of triumph for the blood I was shedding ; but the sporting feeling prevailed, and pointing my rifle towards the skies, I sent a bullet through her neck. On receiving it, she reared high on her hind legs and fell backwards with a heavy crash, making the earth shako around her—a thick stream of dark blood spouted far from the wound, her colossal limbs quivered for a mo ment, and she expired." Wo will not dwell longer on the particular doings of one capable of " bagging" his elephant bulls, " knocking over" his lions," and " bringing down" his rhinoceroses as schoolboys other cob nuts—by hundreds. We mast mention, however, that Mr. Cumming had a huge horse, called " The Immense Brute," which surely claims some Imin ourable introduction to the admiring world. May 3 we suggeet to the nighty LionTonunter, who now presides over a London Exhibition, lie has done and seen, that it would b telling all e doing a consistent thing if he had the cognomen of the dumb slave legibly printed and placed as a badge on the breast of the master. Tit! Lion-Killer. By Jules Gerard. Lambert and Co., New Oxford street. Here we have another " lion" vo l ume, by a Frenchman, fit to take , its place by th e s id e of any " extraordinary ' and " wonderful " book of adventures-whether th a t b ook be " Jack the Gi an t-Killer or ." Gulliver' s T rave l s. " There i s an amount of eplsodial ma tt er i n Mons. Gerard ' s relations which rather ameliorates the savage de tails of rifle and bullet performance, and causes us to look upon th e production as a sort of African " Nights Entertainments." Fables and tales of pleasant chara c t er are i ntro d uced, hav i ng purpose and point about th em . I n f ac t, we cons id er M. Gerard's work as a regular romance. He makes most of his victim-lions breakfast on lovely women, dine on honest men, " thaw up" whole herds of horses, oxen, mul e s, a n d s h ee p, an d commit the extreme of desolating mischief, before they are " rolled over" by his " well-placed" bullet. We meet with pot lion-cubs carried home in his pocket, anecdotes of marauding robbers who are taught to behave themselves properly, delicate young brides within a foot of a lion's fangs, a n d a ll kinds of astonishing and startling incidents. Wa are not constitutionally given to this class of read, ing ; but were we compelled to choose for our own • _ ~ ~ .~_- 5t.l 100 It. 100 ;t. 100 $ all St. Roo it. 100 5 all 10 1 ;t, 100 i 0 all It. 100 100 It. 100 ;. 100 2i 76 t. 100 !,0 11 i 0 6 ,t. 100 3t, 100 Lt. 100 ;t. 100 LO all 8 all 10 all 10 all 3t 100 165 all all 4.1100 It. 100 it 100 .2. , el 2? ail 6I 4 2 all 10. I too 16- ali t all 3t. 100 13 211 10 all ' 3t. too 100 R. 100 R. 100 it. 100 It. 100 1.7 T Do.. pin i pm 107 s ••• ..." 211 984 6 7 331 .4 special perusal between Mr. Cumming's book anti. Mons. Gerard's, we should certainly prefer that cm the latter gentleman. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE BEEI.IIAH. LIVERPOOL, SeTLTEDAY. Tho Royal Mail ship Beemah, Captain Picker. nell, arrived in the Mersey this morning, from Melbourne, with the mails of January 31, 172 passengers (12 of whom were saloon and 180 second and third cabin), and 18,000 ounces of gold, of the value of 72,000/. The Beemah was placed on the line in lieu of the Schomberg, and has delivered her mails in 85 days. Her cargo was chiefly wool and copper ore. She spoke, in lat. 22.8, the emigrant ship Switzerland, from this port—all well. Her Majesty's brig Fan. tome was to sail for Portsmouth the same day the Beemah. The Beemah reports the arrival of the following ships at Melbourne :—The Phoenix, Eagle, and Ocean Chief, from Liverpool ; George Marshall, Empress Eugenic, Forest Queen, and Evening Star, from London ; the Alorning Star, from Bristol; and the Ophir, from Dundee. The Albatross sailed for Liverpool Jan. 18, with 18,902 ounces of gold (about 78,60810 ; the Angles sey, with 51,308 ounces of gold for London, on 20th Jan. ; the S'atesma.n, with 14,198 ounces; and the Thames, with 41,788 ounces of gold, for London, on the 24th of the same month. The Indemnity and the Invincible were to sail for London Fob. 5; the Sultana, with the mails, on Feb. 10, for Liverpool ; and the Eagle, also for Liverpool, about Feb. 2/. In the suatinary for the Beemah, prepared by the Melbourne Argu s , we fi n d the following statistics of the gold fields of Victoria for the year 1855 : In presenting the fourth annual statistical account of the gold fields of Victoria, the subscriber has much satis faction in producing a statement which he hopes will interest every one connected with this colony. In come paring it with 1854 it shows an increase of 35 per cent. The introduction of machinery to the goldfields of Vic toria during 1855 has been extensive, but has not been attended with results at all encouraging. Some of the machinery does the pulverising of the quartz satisfac torily, but the great desideratum is the extracting the gold by the process of amalgamation. Notwithstanding the number of men of Califorenan and of continental experience, who profess a competent knowledge of the emcees, there is still evidently wanted the chemical ebility to successfully combat with the foreign metals con tained in the gold-bearing quartz. Were a perfect pro cess of extracting the gold discovered, the amount of 10,0001. moved for in the council by one of the members from the gold fields, would be a paltry recompeuce when compared with the amount of benefit to be derived from such process. If the amount be granted we hope that sufficient time will be given, that scientific men from all parts of the globe may be induced to compete. From inquiries made we estimate the production . of gold from quartz to be under 20,000 ounces—small in amount when the extent of the machinery employed is taken into no c mnt. We hope to be able to give a more satisfactory account of this process twelve months hence, if spared to record the fifth year of our gold produce. An export dutv of 2s 6d per ounce having come into operation in May bute had the effect of lowering the price of gold by nearly tinst sum per ounce. The digger is now freed from the of system of licence hunting, and if unsuccessful has no fee' to pay ; and he who meets with success does not object to the reduced price. The introduction of the duty was attended with many annoyances, which might have been obviated by a little foresight on the part of the Customs, and which, after an experience of eight months, are not wholly removed. The Amount of duty collected is 230,0001. upon 1,842,392 ounces. The price of gold continuing to he regulated by the rate of exchange, it has gradually given way in price as the exchange feil, since the begiuning of the year. The export duty of 2s 6d per ounce came into ope ration in May, which had the effect of lowering the price nearly to that amount. Of the present state of the trade and commerce of the colony, the Argus reinirks : The import houses are doing a steady and profitable trade. The roads to the interior are alive with traffic, bills are met as they become due—the third day of the elontla is no longer looked forward to with uneasiness ; deuce is in the main restored. The market has been teba racterised by a lar4e amount of speculation. The int;e3i 4ence of the continued advance in the value of money' in the home market has led to the belief that speculati,Ye shipments:will be checked by the withdrawal of capita l to the profitable investments which are now insuring a, quicker reture than the shipment of goods to a distant market. Tb arrivals of imports from the United King dom have been very heavy during the month, but the bulk of the goods has been of a seasonable character; and if a spirit of caution similar to that which has been mani fested in late shipments be continued, the Australian colonies will be a profitable market to the British mer chant during the year 1856. One of the most remarkable features of trade as conducted now, in comparison with the commencement of the past year, is the failing off in forced sales by auction. Daring the last 3 months of 1354 and the 3 months of 1855. goods were sacrificed at prices much below the orignal cost—to the annoyance of the legitimate trader, and to the eventual disgust to the shipper at home. This is no longer the case. Large Sales by auction are of frequent occurrence, but the prices re• alised are the wholesale prices current of the day, and this method of selling is only resorted to as a ready means of realising, or in order to close consignments. As regards our commerce with the world, the returns of the past year exhibit a most healthy result, the ascertained balance of the value of exports over imports having been upwar Jo of 2,500,0001. The news of the death of Sir William Moles worth had caused very great and general regret amongst all classes of politicians in Victoria. Oh the present state of the gold market Mr. Ed ward Khull, bullion broker, of Melbourne, writes : Gold has advanced in price 3d. per ounce since last week's report. This arises from the scarcity of the metal caused by the diggers only selling a portion of their pro. duce. The quantity deposited at the different camps is evidence of the correctness of this view of the scarcity. The market has been dull from this cause, aided also by a large amount of this week's escort having been let oat of the Gold Office for shipment by the Anglesey. The escorts have brought from : ozs. Mt. Alexander and Bendigo.. 19,904 Ballarat, including Geelong... 15,677 Maryborough Daisy Hill 1,133 Avoca l3B OZI. Amount this week ..... —40,129, and year 150,382 Gold shipped in 1856 199,941 Per steamers to Sydney 2,699 Per Thames to London 41,789 Per Statesman, to ditto 14,193 258,622 Or 10 tons 15 cwt. 2 qr. 1 lb. 10 ozs., at 80s. 1,034,488/. EXCHANGE ON LONDON.—Drafts against gold pur chased at 2 per cent. dis. Freights, 40. per oz., de. livered at the Bullion-office, Bank. of England, London. WooL AND TALLOIY.—Messrs. E. Row and Co. rt. port :—At our sale on Thursday, the 24th inst., we have to report a slight advance on former week's prices, which we partially account for in consequence of very few good lots of wool being offered on that day. Toe following was the result of 546 bales offered by as, viz.: EA., 24 bales greasy, at 84 1. ; LY, 30 do., 71d. ; AEI, 24 do., Bd. ; H, 26 do., 94d. ; JG, 40 bales washed fleece, 150. ; MK conjoined, 91 do., 1611. ; Ly, 75 do., bought in ; ESP, 1 bale greasy, 12d. ; ESP, 1 do. greaoy, 8. I.; OK, 50 bales scoured, 174 d. ; OG, 2 do., mixed 50. ; IC., 28 do., fleece, 134 I.; RM. 33 do., 120.; RH under YP, 30 do., withdrawn ; Y. 12 do., hand washed, 13d. ; 0, 5 do., mixed, sd. ; B, 4 do., black, 94d. ; D, 23 do., fleece, 144 d ; PS, 30 do., 16 I. ; McNI, 20 do., greasy, withdrawn ; MK conjoined, 2 do., scoured, 17id. ; TM, 10 do., fleece , 12d. ME ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN BUP.ERT-ST RE BT. SUPPOSEFD CH DISCOVERY OF THE BODY Or OSINI IN rilE THAMES. Yesterday inf irmation was received at the Chief Police Office, Scotland-yard, that the body of Foschini, the Ita lian who wilfully and malicio us ly m b e a n d been discovered stabbed four of hie c ee- hcu in theinßußipert-street,Hay market, oaurnkterty, tice of the circumstance was at once sent to Vine-street„ to the inspector who has the case in hand, and he then communicated with some persons who were well ac quainted with Foschini, and they all proceeded to the place where the body bad been conveyed for the purpose of identification. They there found the budy of a man agreeing in every particular with the description given of Foschini, the clothes being identical with those worn by him ou the night of the terrible occurrence, and the thin beard and moustache corresponding. The only dif ficulty was the identification of the features, the head having swollen to nearly double the natural size, owing, it is supposed, to the body having been in the water se veral days. The police, however, are firmly of opinion that the body was that of Foschini ; and that no doubt is entertained that such is the case may be gathered from the fact that yesterday afternoon a man, somewhat re sembling Foschini, was apprehended at Woolwich, and information of the circumstance telegraphed to London ; when directions were instantly sent from head-quarters to release him, and he was accordingly set at liberty. Upon inquiring last evening at Charing-cross Hospital the reporter was informed that Kouelli and two of his un fortunate companions were still in adangerous condition, the former continually spitting blood and evincing very alarming symptoms. Rossi, however, had sufficiently recovered to be enabled to leave the institution on the previous day. They all maintain great taciturnity as to the cause which led to the horrible affair. IThe petition to Parliament aga i ns t the abolition of the la,iv which requires all contracts of 101. and upward to be in writirg is stated to have been signed by $OO of 1 , the principal firms in London. The Queen has appointed Mr. James' Clerk Maxwell, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to be Professor t of Natural Philosophy lit the University of Mar is e hal college, Aborion. ;self, ; 1 111: Ant - from Ed at con- 1 : ialf -2d ; ltd; 3d ; and irgo ;Oa ; for 808 281 .183 62s -a ~~, 20 16 20 20 20 20 6 20 100 100 100 20 50 20 101 25 121 i 561 54] 19/ 5 i 40