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We know not who the author of Clan-Albin may be, but in Elizabeth de Bruce he has produced a work which would do honour even to the " Great Unknown" himself. We have seldom sat down with more doubt, and have never risen with more delight from the perusal of a romantic story. The scene is laid partly in Scotland and partly in Ireland—breathin g all the romanticity of the one mid the picturesque beauty of the other. The characters are as varied as their names, and the pulse of feeling throughout beats with feverish interest—now excited and now subdued only to rise with more overwhelming emotion and intense sensibility. The time too when the action commences was pregnant with tragic deeds—warm with the recollection of burning wrongs and stained with the perpetration of acts, which in one language obtained the appellation of bloody crimes—in another the retribution of patriotic revenge, exulting in its own sacrifice, so that it ensured the destruction of its victim. Our author has drawn his characters with a masterly hand, and struck some of them off with singular spirit and originality—true to the secret workings of nature in her most powerful, though erratic mood. Rongemantle, another Meg Merrilies, is yet original, and stands out from the canvas with masculine strength, but feminine fidelity of purpose, and the most chivalrous devotion of heart. The character of the heroine is drawn with great truth to nature, blended with an ir risistibly increasing interest in all she does—in all she feels —till the heart often melts into tenderness at her affecting situation, and gentle but exalted spirit. The style, though very free and bold, is occasionally heavy, especially to an English reader, who flags over the dulness of Scotticisms, however reconciled to such foreign homeness of phrase by , the fascination of the Scotch Novels. Had the work be fore us contained far less of this diluting material, it would be improved in a twofold proportion, while its genuine interest would be much relieved by the absence of some hundred pages of common life, even though strongly cha racteristic of Scottish manners and na ti ona l as we ll as inch- vidual singularity. But though the author has, from a laudable ambition at completeness, thus lengthened the picture beyond the verge of concentrated interest, he has, nevertheless, done ample justice to every prominent as well as subordinate character. Some people may quarrel with abrupt description and vicissitude of circumstance, but the face of nature is made up of the one, and human character is influenced, if not fashioned by the other. We cannot behold the mountain without the contrast of the rale, and he who would picture life as it is, must take his scenes as they rise—he must take— The boundless store Of charms which nature to her votary yields— The warbling woodland—the resounding chore, The pomp of groves, and garniture 01 fields ; and all these are pressed into the service by our author with a poet's sensibility keenly alive to their varied beauty, and conscious how well they harmonise with the deep pathos and romantic feelings of his strongly marked cha racters. There are many touches of nature, and much powerful writing in this work, not less creditable to the author's heart than honourable to his genius. The story— but we cannot afford space for an abstract—is sustained with masterly tact; and the author's imagination is not more felicitous than his judgment is correct. We have made copious extracts, but the flowers culled are trifling, compared to the luxuriant field whence they are selected. Let the reader judge of their fragrance by the beauty of the sample. The following description of an irregular old mansion, situated on the brink of the winding Oran, in the West of Scotland, is picturesque and rural. It is the family seat of Grahame of Monkshaugh, the uncle of Wolfe Grahame, the military hero of the work : " The mansion; built at various dates, was rambling, irregular, and Janns-faced, perhaps inconvenient. But as it rises before us now, through the softening vista of years, with its venerable grey roof, steep gables broken into corbie-steps, awkward chimneys, sentry-box towerlets, out-shots and in -shots, :and adjuncts of all forms, wings and wingleta hastily clapped to in every direction, when the successive ladies of Monkshaugh got additions to their families, or the lairds an increase to their wealth ;—as we look back on it, we think it might have won even a stranger ' s admira tion, especially when seen in broken glimpses through those stately groves of elm and chestnut, planted so :lose that they diffused, ' when in full leaf, an air of almost monastic gloom around the good old honee. This was not Mt within however, for there were several rooms in Monkshaugh's dwelling, looking back to the river aoArn proprietors, o P f t hi n o t o o ef t t h gaa e ltnme d dl y e m l light, cheerful, Continuousd moree oivne a , n t d mha veo o er f a ie: i g i e d Nil s r,oh o ef n ni th e shhediffdiffused proportions. shelter rtes. this he moat flourishing colony of rooks in the whole strati]. In spring indeed, when those black -robed gentry are so clamorous about cjectments and marriage -settlements, the cawing around the old house became perfectly deafening and intolerabl e ; but one would have mired it too; and then one needed only to steal up into the dean among the birch and broom, or down to the river's edge andTlyto h hazel t elowbushes, m of those woo: tocharm instantly te f a r n e i e o o ng f th th e e ro l o o k w ery sp d r i e n a , din li g alleyr go wooilland warblers who so quietly arrange all their love affairs with a sweat song. Elizabeth was the grandchild of O'Connor of the NVest, and wife of Wolfe Graham ;—but her birth and fortunes were as unknown to herself as the modesty of her na ture and the exuberant goodness of her heart. She was nurtured with the eagles, and sought communion with nature in her charmed haunts:— " The succeeding period was a happy interval in the life of Elizabeth ; and yet nothing occurred which a stranger could have noted as memorable. She had her needlework, her lonely rambles among the hills, and her social visits to the hamlet, the marvels of sad Fugal, who was the Ainnehaussen of the district, and the old songs and legends of Monica, in themselves a mine of enjoyment. She had lost her best musical instrument ; but she retained all her musical capacities. Music is said to be a social art—and in one sense it is so; hut there is music which is neither very social, nor at all under the dominion of art —a gift of nature, a passion, a feeling, solitary, heartfelt, the charmed soul hanging on the murmurs of the lip as the rose is fabled to listen to the song of the nightingale. Elizabeth's musical tastes, which made so much of the enjoyment of her solitary life, were of Rousseau's third order. Her soul was instinct with melody—the murmurs of her infancy were musical, and the wild warbling of her dreams more touching than her most finished song. T o her ear all nature was one mighty instrument, of a scale infinitely graduated but all attuned to harmony. To listen was to enjoy —from the hoarse breaking of the waves on the shore to the tingle of the summer rill—from the burst and swell and long -rolling peal of the thunder :cloud, to the faint winter churn of the red-breast. Thus, th oug h t h e i nexp li c able order, or capri ce o f the family agent had somew h at a b r id ge d one source of enjoyment, it could not attaint her hereditary and indefeasible right to nature's gift. Her instruments were away; but she could still, in the deep twilight of her chamber, listen, soothed or rapt, to those viewless harps of a thousand strings sounding in the leafless woods below. But those purely natural strains, the articulate breathings of passion and se ns ibili ty, spea ki ng a unitvheiersanlmlasnia " language, b e i t i n t h e glow ing song o f the Hindoo g i r l, or the wild l ament of the high land m a id, —and a b ove a ll, married to immortal verse," claimed a loftier place in her musical associations, and minist ere d d e li ght to a hi g h e r class of feeli ngs. " A solitary an d unc laimed, but neverth e l ess a fa i r and a happy ebild,— a so li tary, un regarded, but, till now, a li g h t -h earte d an d happy g i r l, t h e past l i fe o f Elizabeth de B ruce h ad been one l ong midsummer n i g h t ' s d ream .. She bad grown u p i n so lit u d e an d freedom, her young imagination is the clouds, but her heart on the dear green earth, finding, in the thousand forms of loveliness and delight scattered in her lonely path, objects to excite her na tural sensibility, and in the recollection that all neglected as her existence had been, she was not the less a de Bruce, enough to nourish in her mind the self-respect and graceful pride of true nobility : till Wolfe Grahame came, and a brighter heaven and a yet greener earth unfolded, and the pride of birth was forgotten in the dearer pride of affection ; for to be his was happier than even her fondest brightest dreams, and now—she was his.' And the following is a description of the tower where she imbibed the freshness of the breeze, and looked rotmd on the romantic scenery so dear to love and 'Wolfe Grahame : Steep and high where the mountain opened its hollow bosom at the head of the dean, there started sheer up a bluff promontory called by the country people " The Pech's Mount," from its artificial appearance. A narrow grassy isthmus connected this abrupt promontory with the hills behind; and on it, perched like an eagle's nest dallying with the storm, rose the tower of Ernes- Craig. The mountains' sides closed darkly upon the tower ; and yet in its height it was seen afar off in all directions predominating over the surrounding country, like the spirit of fallen chivalry. Ernescraig Tower and the surrounding scenery had been fancifully, and not unaptly compared to the bird from whence it took its name—to a falcon on the swoop, ready to pounce on its prey.' Elizabeth had been privately wedded to Wolfe Grahame, who being ordered to join his regiment in Ireland—en counters old O'Connor, a fugitive--an exile seeking to elude the close hunt of his pursuers, attended by the trusty Rougemantle, who thus describes him as he is hastily taking some refreshment at midnight, on a tomb-stone, in a lonely church-yard : " Six feet two in his shoes—and they were seven boys of thorn, cones of the ould O'Connor; and Aileen the youngest, and the faired, and the flower, and the curse :—and the sea got its part, and the swoord got its part, and the grief as ever, had its own double portion. But did I not guide him well?—Ay, and the blood will flow deeper, ere the axe which Fitzmaurice is whetting, fall on the proud neck of O'Connor !" This new riddle was whispered through clenched teeth, in a tone of almost insane energy ; and before Wolfe could reply, Rouge-mantle was clambering over the grave-stones and rocks, on her way to the little inn, for such spoils from Grahame's port manteau as might be substituted for the ill-boding green garb worn by the fugitive. The moon had almost sunk, the stars gleamed less vividly, and a faint pale streak of dawn was visible in the direction of the An trim mountains. The fugitive gazed darkly in the direction of his country, with that yearning hopeless gaze of which only the exile knows all the bitterness; and stretched out his longing arms as if to clasp it to his heart. " This is folly," said he, assuming a lighter tone than he had yet used. " I could play the woman here :" be slipped his arm through Grahame's. " Poor country !—a sadder heart never left thee,—a darker shadow never lowered over thee, since the hoar when thy glorious green head first rose in pride above the waters, and thy God blessed thee, and saw that l,is work svaa good !—You think me a very fool, de Bruce, but that poor Ire land is my country. In this hour it is more—the birth-place and the grave of noble hopes; and, in the narrow space between them, what of toil, and suffering, and grief, and remorse, are hud dled !—I cannot tell you my story to-night but I wish , it were your destiny to carry your arms elsewhere." As he talked, the sullen roll of a single cannon-shot swung over the waters of the channel. He made a slight agitated movement, the nervous movement of one who has been long bunted, but is at laat under no necessity of exercising sel command. " 'Tis the Carrickfergus signal gun," said 'Wolfe. "On a still night the booming of the evening gun may be heard on this coast." " 'Tie to me the last voice of Ireland !" said the exile. " The Bride Aileen" is the daughter of O'Connor, and mother of Elizabeth, who is repeating the following ver ses when her supposed father, Lord Bruce, a lunatic, re siding then in the sanctuary at Edinburgh, glides away from his keeper, and listens to the song. Aileen was his betrothed bride, but torn from him almost at the altar. THE BRIDE AILEEN. " There's mirth around O'Connor's board, And bridal banqueting ; The wine-cup passed from Dame to Lord Kissed by rose-lipped Aileen : The young Aileen, the gay Aileen, The bright, the blest, the Bride Aileen. soft strains of Erin's minstrelsy Were floating rich between, And bashful joy rose in the eye Of the young Bride Aileen. The young Aileen, the proud Aileen, The blest, the bright, the Bride Aileen ! The grey O'Connor's darling girl, Flower of his house of pride, Her faith plights to the Northern Earl, A young and blissful bride!-- The young Aileen, the proud Aileen, The blest, the bright, the Bride Aileen ! 'Twits wo to leave O'Connor's halls ; And deep the wo she proves ; Her heart clings to the dear grey walls, But she follows him she loves. The young Aileen, the seft Aileen, The bright, the blest, the Bride Aileen. Say what may mean the rushing wail, That wild shriek thrilling keen, The blood-shower on the broidered veil Of the pale bride Aileen ? Wo for Aileen ! the young Aileen ; The loved, the doomed, the lost Aileen !" The scene changes to Ireland. Aileen had been con strained to marry Lord Montegle, but she never coha bited with him. She was adored by the people, and was at present going to intercede for the life of a rebel. It chanced that Grahame was in the same mail coach which conveyed her. They stopped at an Inn, on the walls of which the head of the rebel she meant to say; was stuck up. The following sketch is very powerful--a picture for a painter in his most horrible mood : " Any business done to-day?" said the sergeant, glancing his eyes upwards at the blazing range of large windows where the Commission now sat. The person thus interrogated without saying one word, took a torch from the soldier who stood next him, and hared its swart rays upwards over a ghastly object stuck under the centre window of the court-room, over the spiked arch-way of the open porch of St. Peter's Keys. It was a human head, blackened and purpled, the eyes starting from their sockets, the muscles of the face strained as if in the last agony of violent suffocation. Such spectaelca were at this period not uncommon in Ireland ; but they were new to our young traveller, and he turned from the " grisly era shudder of mingled horror and disgust, sa yi ng within in" with hititnlf-" this is still worse than hanging in chains. What fitter means could be devised to render a people brutal and sanguinary than to habituate them to so barbarous a spectacle as !' this!" " Faugh !" cried the sergeant as he alighted ; "but which of them was he ?" " The young fellow yimr party seized in the mountain yester day morning ; Doran—Felix Doran ; for there is a whole covey of them Dorans, each worse than the other. They fly lees strong now." "By St. George ! but this is sharp work though, Master Con stable," said the soldier, looking for an instant half shocked. " But fortune of war ! He was a mettle lad enough too." He could here just discern the outline of a figure, delicate even to emaciation, the top of a bloodless cheek, and the graceful con tour of a swan -lik e neck, from which the shawl had slipped down, b en d e d f orwar d as if in sorrow or deep thought. Without accepting th e ass i stance o f e i t h er of her atten d an t s , s h e l e aned h er hand o n th e s h ou ld er of the landlady, which t h e i r re l a ti ve h e i g h ts enabled her to do with full effect; and in this manner ascended the broad stone steps of the open porch to pass under the spiked archway on which the bloody trophy wasszhibited. A gout of blood, human blood, oozing from the lately dissever ed head, fell chill and heavy on the naked bended neck ; and seemed, by instinctive horror, to curdle every drop of blood in the fragile form which shrunk and withered at the unnatural touch. She shivered with a sort of indrawn scream, and, staggering for ward, sunk kneeling on the steps; and, had not Grahame rushed to her assistance, must have fallen forward on the sharp ledge of the entrance hall. " It's the dead rebel Doran !" shrieked the waiting-woman. " How dare ye, woman, stick such frights over. your door to scare ladies of fashion ?" With a shivering inward murmur of horror, as if her very life-blood were freezing, the fainting lady articulated, "His blood is upon me !" and sunk into utter insensibility. . The author is not more felicitous in his tender scenes than sarcastic in his denunciation of the foes of Ireland, Squire O'Toole was denominated the Protestant fail' from his rank Orangeism, and brutality in hunting the , " Rebels :" T!•i: man was, indeed, a rank and disgusting specimen of that race of reptiles, which, in all ages and countries, are quickened amid corruption by the hot and pestilential breath of party-strife. To be loyal, according to his distorted meaning of the term, was, in the opinion of Mr. O'Toole, equivalent to justice, truth, and humanity ; and to revile and insult his fellow-subjects of another belief was equal to the fear of God and the love of man : united, they, in his opinion, gave impunity to the rapacity, arrogance, and petty tyranny of brief authority. " Such loyalty and such faith !" was the young soldier's secret thought. " Fortunately the "reign of such worthies must be as brief as it is odious;" and he almost forgave Madam Mulroonie'e failure of the bread end salt, those universal symbols of hospita lity, when, on Mr. O'Toole's stepping out to issue fresh orders, lie heard her exclaim— " Me hid you look out for Dennis, was id ?—Dirty thief ! make the boys xvilcome to the long ears of him—it's myself than does—first time, plaise God ! they ketch him, mass or market, bog or hill. He, the scullion! would know what belongs to the feelings of ilegant females.--and herself too that knew the boy on her father's demesne, and all his kin, decent people all. The older brother's blood flowed for her's, and now the younger bby's. Th e curse of St. Patrick, and of my own heart, be on them wuld spill blood for sparing blood !" Monica is the nurse and constant attendant of the young but unfortunate Aileen. This is a spirited but heart rending sketch : " Heavens ! then, 'tis as I feared. The wife of Montegle is the mother-of Elizabeth de Bruce ?" " His most wretched wife !" Grahame recoiled a step ere he said, " Monica, I have heard enough. What Elizabeth twist never hear—never surmise. Woman, how have you juggled with me !" Monica could not, in the dim gleam shed by a distant lamp in the corridor, see the flush which shame, grief, and indignation had brought to the young man's cheek and brow, but she at once understood the tone of his mind ; and, catching his hand, she said, very solemnly, " Captain Wolfe Grahame, as true as the God who is in Heaven hears us ! your present thoughts do cruel wrong where they should now, and will yet be all respectful ten derness." And Grahame breathed more freely as he said, " Then how, or where has this lady met my unfortunate kinsman ?" " Beneath her father's roof, as his betrothed bride, Aileen O'Connor met and loved de Bruce, with the wild, fond, daring love which draws down evil on the heart that owns its power." " A clandestine connexion—unsanctioned by her family—as it, I know, was unwelcome to his 9" "A Prince might have wooed the daughter of O'Connor of the West !" said the old woman, proudly—" and gloried in his con quest. Unsanctioned by her family ? Oh, no, no ! Heaven and earth smiled upon their union ; and the old father's tremb ling voice grew firm as be blessed her trothplight pledged to de Bruce; brethren and kindred heap kindness and blessing upon the young, the beloved, the happy, the heantiful ! But Hell and its incarnate demons atept between! Aileen O'Connor is the wife of Montegle !" "'Tie a strange tale !" said Grahame, shocked and subdued, though not yet cured of his eager desire for the explanation of the mystery. " She plighted her faith, she interwove her fate with one of a doomed race ! One is mad, the other miserable! Leave her then. In her own time she will reveal herself; and think sot 'tis for herself she fears, or herself she spares : were O'Connor once beyond the reach of pursuit, that were the signal of a long delayed justice." " I trust that he is," said Wolfe; " on the morning I left him he rode a good horse, and bad a faithful guide, though a strange and a wild one." " And was she faithful—,the poor wretch ?" exclaimed the old woman. "Do you say it ? Yon outcast and degraded woman, forsaken of God and goodness! was she faithful ?" She laid her hand on Wolfe's arm, her emotio❑ betraying deeper interest in the vagrant Rouge-mantle than one so worthy could be supposed to feel for one so vile. " God forgive the mother, who, in her bitter sorrow and burn ing shame, cursed the first living thing that ever clung to her bosom in infant innocence, and impute it not as evil to her, or as sin to me." It was but a transient interest that Grahame could at this time take in the information thus conveyed; but he saw that the heart of Monica, though bruised, was not chilled ; and he felt pleasure in repeating his commendations of the address and fide lity of his late acquaintance. She is stained with crimes enow, and faults, but too many ; but the leprosy of treachery never yet tainted the blood of the Do rana. Oh ! pardon so mueh speech of that unhappy one, who has haunted my thoughts, and corroded my heart for many a lonely year ! Why should not the decent mother have au evil child ? May not the human fiend prove the angel's sire ? But part in peace now, I entreat ; and I shall know - neither rest nor solace till I have redeemed the promise to you, which I this night solemnly repeat." And the following is not more beautiful than pathetic-- breathing the pure spirit of poetry and wildness of fancy : The door of the cabinet Ives between the old-fashioned, high testered bed, and the couch on which the lady reclined; and ex actly opposite to this door was one of those large filigree-framed mirrors so prized by the landlady. It was but to push the door a little aside—an almost unpardonable act of curiosity—and re flected in a hazy phantom light, Grahame beheld the delicate re clining form, tinted with flitting dream-like hues, which threw around the pale and exquisitely beautiful countenance a shadowy, indescribable, and almost aerial softness; as if the whole being were a floating vision of enchantment, impalpable to touch. Thus, in as it were her own element of mystery, was revealed the mother of his Elizabeth ! Almost afraid to breathe, lest a breath might dissipate the fairy scene, Wolfe stood silent and watchful. " Monica, sit by me while I tell you my dreams. I have had happy dreams to-night !Is not this All-Hallow Eve when spirits : In h er y oung d ream of felicity, how happy she have power ? B u t t e ll me fi rst of my daughter—of o_'Connor eli e ' T me too, of him—that young and generous kinsman o mufstde Bruce— who, b who, f or h er own sa k e, l ove d t h e poor Elizabeth. b. clasp warm " His countenance was young and radian— bat one duty —to my and of mine to follow ? On earth I have I will brave Elizabeth. Once assured of O'Connor'ssafety , Heaven v li e u n n: human. E lf Monica i to oawarning m e of his death, daughter. I have yet for I too will this night, with you, wake your Fe another task ; lix ! And his shall be the bravest wake Munster has seen for ages—ay • as I if a Prince of O'Connor's race had departed in his do was justice it his Fetch,to m y . glory !" and she bent forward, an d clasped the old wom an ' s nec k . "And prayers shall h e sa id f or hi m a t e v e ry shrine i n S pa i n and Italy, at which Pil gr i m k nee l s , or a t w hich Chri s ti an r i tes are celebrated —even at those distant shrines in the land. that h o ld t h e Holy Sepul c h re . A n d t o a ll w ho prize heroic faith, or who love devoted aff ec ti on , hi s gra v e will be as a shrine. 0 ! st i nt me not i T n ow th e is e, l— wa l ke w y i • l o i u t i l. : Felix.—Theisnightw lifelessithyou, in the c h ape l of Brian's body is ther e alread _ ti e bleeding bead !—Oh, men ! into what demon s are ye changed !" Monica whispered in a tone so low that G ra h ame could not ascertain one word of her meaning ; but there was a gleam of melancholy delight in her thin and wasted features, which brought a faint reciprocal glow of satisfaction into the countenance of the lady. " This is enough ! I have b u t o n e more duty on earth then come again ! Oh, coins ! bright and beloved messenger 1" Her clasped hands were stretched out—her figure bent forward—her e y es beaming in rapt and supernatural feeling, wandered round the apartment, till they rested on the mirror, where the dim, half-seen image of Wolfe was reflected, she started to her feet, and flew as if to clasp this vanishing shadow, then recoiled, and sunk on the couch in a state of complete exhaustion. The robbery of the mail-coach in a deep ravine, over hung with branching trees at night, is of another descrip tion, but equally well told. Grahame is on the top of the coach, and— While stooping on one occasion to avoid this unpleasant con tact, a murmur was heard among the dragoons who rode in advance ; and he caught the glance of a pair of wild eyes in the branches above him. In the same instant the lamps were smashed, the guard was borne down, and the trees crashed with the weight of a man who dropt from them on the top of the vehicle. Wolfe sn , pped his pistol—but it merely dashed the priming. Already ". , p ,. r.z „, 4 ,„ i,vic,i24 , 4.-44,,, _ ' .4*e• -• '''''• .* f ‘ `. _ ~.-.,, 4 , ~ ; ' ' f, ".',.+;•.• 8 , f -- , _ .0 - : '' ."‘i,, ...-,....".-- , -..a0- t ; 1 0, . ~....,K-, -.0- *,,,... . -.L--,, • -••" /,•' -,--,-? /i.' -',„‘.':‘ ' - '..5,;' • - ... ~‘ ~..... ~.444:10 ~ ...... i • 1,, •-, k , i l i ., '..„ 1,...., .• ' it; ~,Ak_• .7, ,, , , , . t ,'" ' I. ,,a Ofee ) 6--,c , • ~:id.- -- c- , .-,- 2 .:IlljiliqPlY*!4';•A'' ' ;it. , •-+ "MAN. I I-.151" . -Vetw 117' ktt , ' ~, 4. 0 ' ''' S. 11 • 4 ''' =4 , A4 41- ' 4 :01015.' THE ARMY. The 2d and 3:1 Divisions of the 84th York and Lancaster Re giment of Foot, embarked on the 25th inst., on board the Lord Suffield and Louisa transports, at Cork, for Jamaica. The Ist Division of the 21st (Royal North British Fuzileers) arrived on the 29th instant, at the Isle of Wight, from the Lee ward Islands. THE MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) Suoaa.—The Sugar Market continued steady last week till towards the close on Friday, when an animated request took place. The purchases after the usual hour of business were ex tensive; the prices obtained were rather higher. The purchases were chiefly the good and tine descriptions. In consequence of the brisk Market on Friday the holders anticipated a lively de mand for Muscovades this morning ; but the Market has been checked by an accumulation of 1,000 casks in the stock arising from the quantity landed at the Docks; the deliveries from the Warehouse for the consumption, &c. are nearly the same as in the corresponding week of last year. At the close of business to-day the purchases of Muscovades were estimated at 800 hhds. at full prices, - particular Sugars 595. a 625. The Barbadoes public sale 100 casks sold at good prices. Last week the demand for low : y r /3(gs continued general and extensive; the prices were fully supported. The wholesale Grocers made inquiries after goods generally for the home consumption of the country, but no actual purchases to any extent were reported. The purchases of low goods for export would have been extensive this fore noon, but there are no adequate supplies. The fine goods for home consumption are neglected. Molasses are unvaried. The public sale of nearly 6,000 bags Mauritius Sugar went off at full prices, except the middling qualities, 565. a 58s. which went off lower. By private contract last week 500 chests white Ha vannah ; a middling parcel at 455. MoLassEs (West India).—The stock of West India Molasses has accumulated lately to above 1100 casks. Some sales of De-. merara by private contract at 288.—8 y public sale this forenoon 105 casks 30 hhds. Demerara sold at 28s. and 276. COFFEE.—The public sales of Coffee went off heavily last week ; some good ord. Brazil was taken in about 495. and 505., and for which only 48s. was offered. By private contract there was nothing publicly reported, but we have good reason to believe that, notwithstanding this apparent most depressed and languid state of trade, yet that two or three large parcels of Foreign Coffee were purchased privately ; the Brazil a good parcel some where near 503. The three small public sales to-day criterion of the market; they sold heavily. m BAs. a 89s. 64. ; ordinary Ceylon 475. ; good ordinary mixed Jamaica .50s. The market has still a languid appearance. RUM, BRANDT, and HOLLANDs.—The market for Leeward Island Rum has been exceedingly heavy, and it is now apparent, that unless the Government Contract had appeared, a considerable decline must have taken place, as the parcels which were held on speculation were considerable, and they have lately been forced upon the market for sale. Brandies are heavy, but we believe no sales have been made at any reduction. Several small parcels of pale Geneva have been made. SALTPETRE. There is little alteration in Saltpetre ; there are few holders that are inclined to effect sales at present. HEMP, FLAX, and Tar.row.—The Tallow market has been steady, and there is more firmness on the part of the holders.— Hemp is without alteration. The inquiries after Flax have lately reviv e d an d rather considerable parcels are taken for Ireland and Scotland ; the purchases are chiefly Petersburgh 12-head Flax. Corrox.—The Cotton Market continees heavy. The pur chases for the week ending last night inclusive, consist of 200 Surat sd. a bid., 50 Bengal sid., in bond ; 650 Egyptian, duty paid lid. a 71. Tobacco. —The purchases of Tobacco are chiefly small parcels for home consumption; about 100 bhds. have been taken for the Mediterranean at 4-id. a 4+l. RICE.—New Carolina Rice is scarce, and obtains a small ad vance ; the old has fallen 2s. a Ss. India Rice at nearly nominal quotations. • OILS.—The Oil Market is heavy. Greenland is lower; the other descriptions are little varied. t Faesr.—The ne fi w eel a y r . ri T va i l i s e n o e f w e F ts i rr gs an c t On f t r i o u nl ue to go oeff and read Ce phalonia have sold very few now remain in the importers hands. The request for new Red Smyrna Raisins has revived, and sales are considerable.. New Muscatels are nearly unsaleable. The demand for Denia and Valencia Raisins is also very languid. TEA.—Although the Market is rather dull, the prices of C on _ gnus and Twankaya are not lower ; common Ilysons ate very scarce. PEPPER.—By public sale, 49 large, 471 small bags unsifted, 3id. up to 4-id. for light. larsn Pstovissoris.—The prices of Beefand Pork are supported. In Bacon there is little variations. Fine Butters continue scarce, the return of mild weather is rather unfavourable, but there is at present no reduction. SlLK.—There is snore business doing ; the purchases are chiefly in the anticipation of a revival of trade. INosoo.—The sale which commenced on the 16th instant, finished this forenoon, it consisted of 7,062 chests.—The sale has gone off with great spirit, at much higher rates than was generally expected. The proprietors have bought in 1,200 chests. Prices daring the sale have varied considerably. The rise on the October sale may be thus quoted :—On the fine and good, Is. to 2s. ; good and good middling Is. 6d. to 2s. Gd. ; middling and consuming, Is 6d. to 3s. ; fine Oude, is. 3d. to 25. 3d. ; good and middling, Gd. to Is. 6d. ; Madras, Is. to 2s. - • Consuming—Fine 9s. 6d. to 101. 6d. ; good, Ss. 6d. to 9s. 6d. ; middling and ordinary, 7s. 3d. to Bs. 3d. Coromandel or Oude Indigo—Fine 9s. 2d. to 10s. ; good, 6s. 6d. to Bs. ; middling and ordinary, 4s. 6d. to 6s ; low and bad, 23. to 4s. iladras—Fine, 9s. 9d. to 10s. 6d. ; good and good middling, Ss. 3d. to 9s. 6d. ; middling and ordinary, 6s. 6d. to Bs. ; low and bad, 4a. 6d. to ss. 9d. Csraccas Indigo—By public sale, 77 serons fine sold uncom monly high, chiefly Sc. 10d. to 12s. ; one lot 13s. 7d. The sale went 2s. higher than the prices current a month ago. CoclincEAL—By public sale on Friday, 28 bags Cochineal in Bond, middling to good silver, 13s. 3d. to 14s. 9d. ; fine black, 18s.