The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMYIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday con tinued to manifest a very firm aspect. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales, 1,000 for export, and 2,000 on speculation- 7 --comprising 300 Peru am and Marauham, 6ad. to lid. ; 250 Bahia, 6 7-161 to 6d. ; 600 Egyptian, 6)d. to 9id. ; 800 Surat, 4id. to Md., and 50 Sea Islands, 11d. to Is. td. per lb. The Railway Share Market closed steadily at a slight advance. There has been a quiet market for Colonial pro duce this week, purchases having chiefly been con fined to immediate wants. Prices, however, have generally been well supported. In sugar the trans actions have been moderate, and prices have been rather firmer. Coffee has been more freely offered, still previous rates have been maintained. Tea ruled steady early in the week, but it has since been somewhat weaker. Rice is heavy. Spices have been dull, and rum has been bought freely at firm rates. Tallow has tended upwards, but the market has exhibited a quiet appearance. The receipts at the Custom-house at Havro for the month of June amounted to 3,911,952 f., show ing a diminution of 164,029 f. compared with the same month last year. Large cargoes of American wheat and gour continue to arrive at that port, and pricer, are firm at 90f. per 200 kilos for wheat and 44f. 75c. per barrel for flour. The market for sugar is lillit„ewise firm with a tendency to advance, on accountibf the recent advices from the colonies reporting 'a greater demand for export than was calculated on ; but the local demand in France is not equal to the supply, in consequence of the in creased number of sugar factories. Further intelligence from Copenhagen relative to the question of the Sound Dues announce posi tively that no convention has been entered into by Denmark and the 'United States to prolong the treaty of 1826. The negotiations pending between the two countries are simply held in abeyance until the result of the conference between the powers in terested is known. Meanwhile there is a tacit un• derstanding that matters will remain in static quo until that time. It is understood, alto, that Den- Mark will in no way yield to the United States any privil2ge withheld from other nations. The amount of specie on board the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessel Euxine, which leaves Southampton to-day for India and China is much larger than usual, viz., 810,3221., chiefly in silver, for China. The inquiry for money is very moderate, not withstanding the liquidation of a large qsantity of commercial bills falling due to-day. On the Stock Exchange money is easy, and at comparatively low rates. The Funds are rather flat this morning on ac count of a few speculative sales for the realisation of Profits. Prices are about lower, but the gene ral tone of the market continues firm. Consols have been dull at 95/ T o and the Scrip is 4a prem. The New Three per Cents. have been 96/ to 97, and the Reduced 96 to 961. Bank Stock rose per c ent) viz., to 2181. Exchequer Bills are is. higher, 19s. to 20s. prem. In the Foreign Market there is very little doing, and prices ruled heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. have declined to 1061 and 105 i, and the 4 per Cents. are dull at 106 g. Mexican stock is flat at 2n. Sardinian Bonds are marked 92i, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 96k. French 3 per Cents. have been dealt in at 73f. with the exchange at 25f. 250. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 71- ; Mexi can, 22 3i ; Peruvian, 81 3 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 57 9 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russian 5 Per Cents., 111 113 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 98 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 46i 7 ; ditto New Deferred, 24i 51 ; ditto Certificates, 6i I; ditto Passive, 6/ 7. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. state that the market for American Securities continues very active, and the quotations show a marked improve- Meat in the value of some of the leading railroad bonds, in which during the week there has been a considerable business. Redeemable. Per Cent. Waited States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...101 103 united States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...101 103 STATE SECURITIES. Alabama 5 per Cent ... 80 Alabama 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) California 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 80 82 Xentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 1866-1872... 86 88 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 85 87 Maasachnsetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). ...101 103 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. Bonds lB4l-1871... 40 42 Mississippi per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 15 16 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock ? ennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 78 80 South Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds (B ut aring's) 1858-1868... 94 95 Soh Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds (Paer') 1866... 7 89 Zennesse lm 6 s per Cent. Bonds ... 8 86 88 v lrginia S per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... v irginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 82 84 LOANS OF CITIES. per Boston 5 Cent. Bonds (Divers) Montre a l 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 Pi ttsbulgh 6 p er C en t . St oc k 1869-1883... 65 67 St- Louis 6 per Cent ... 71 73 RAILROAD BONDS. 1111( AS Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, „not Convertible 1975... 80 81 t..Toola Central 6 per Cent 1875... 77 79 -Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bond s 1860... 86 87 Ifich,igan Central Bp. Cent. 1860... 96 98 Ny " 0 - do. do. 1869... 97j 98A - .;,;ew York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 94 95 'ow York Central 6 per Cent., not ~.Convertible 1883... 8) 82 °yr York and E r i e 7 p er C en t. I s t Mort gage . 1867 .. 98 100 ...................................... • w York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage . 1883... 87A 88A ~. rk and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 862... 79 81. •oi• York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 84 86 La n n is sari .._ a. Sterling Bonds .1964... 93 94 musylyania Central 6p. Cent., latMort.lBB6..: 89 91 . Railway Shares sympathise with the movement in the Funds, and are mostly to -} lower. Great Northern are IL to it. 10s. cheaper. The French Shares are at improved rates. Paris and Lyons have risen 18s., but Rigas are rather heavy. Great Western of Canada are flat, but Grand Trunks are better. Bengal are to 1 premium. B anking Shares are at full prices. Miscellaneous are rather active. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Wicial List.) nnmnese done. XV* sots 218 k tlier Oenldr.ced Annuities... Lon 3 ** nt. Annuities g l it t,es, expire, sth Jan. 1860 — D itty. Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB h elsnsols ;or Account 9si k i 000801 Scrip 4 p Exchequer Hills, 24d. £lOOO l6 19 201 18 p Brasil ' 16 20 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO2l _ Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account BB 6 t quador New Consolidated l4l Mexican. 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds 41 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent 5B Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto 4/ per Cont. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cont. Ditto Account 921 Sp anise Dorado, 3 per Cent 461 Turki s h Bonds, 6 PGr ce nt lO6l 5I Ditto Account . Ditto Guaranteed, .4 per Cent. Ditto Account V enezuela Bonds, 4i per Cent Ditto Account ••• ...... 30 Divide Ida on the above payabl e in u ndo ,. trench Rentes, 41 per Cent. .................. ADitto 3 per Cent 73f ex 25f 25c us trian Bonds, 10 Guil., £, 5 per Cent. 84 1 rach Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates — * Ditto Account 963 THREE O'CLOCK. Comola d Ditto Account (July 10) V ansit llll6 Paddlewheel st eam -f r i ga t e M a gicienne, 16, Captain tart, wa s t a k en out o f K ey b am -d oc k on Tuesday, and is now waiting orders in Plymouth Sound. The Plymouth steampacket Sir Francis Drake ob le_rved Prussian frigate, supposed to be the Thetis, a :lu a Prussian corvette entering Falmouth harbour be tween a, and 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The St. Jean r eperes 101, which arrived at Plymouth in the forenoon, ~..orts the steam -transport Great Western, from the ate e lea, off that plrt, going up C . -A- ntl. A , :crew ouiltal.ll two-decker, about the size of the bauspareil, was • ald e PlYcnouth' Sound at 3 o'clock in the afternoo oing up Ch annel. n, Naval and Military Intelligence. Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge, as Commanding in-Chief, yesterday received officers at his levee at the Horse Guards. General Vi;count Gough, G C. 13., has arrived in town from his mission to the Crimea, where the gallant vete ran was delegated by her 'Majesty to invest the French Marshal and Generals wish the Order of the Bath. The steam-transport, Viotoria, No. 72, arrived at Spit head yesterday evenine from Balaklava, June 15 ; Malta 21, and Gibraltar the 27th, with the officers and men of the 79th Highlanders. The steam-transport Adelaide arrived at Spithead yes terday from Balaklava, which she left June 11, Scutari 16, Malta 20, and Gibraltar 26th. She brings home the Ist battalion of the let Royals, consisting of 767 non commissioned officers and men, and 13 horses. Yesterday two detachments of the sth (Northumber land) Fusiliers and the 37th Regiment, numbering 129 non-commissioned officers and men, left Chatham bar racks, and embarked on board the Seapark at Gravesend. The number of non-commissioned officers and men fur nished by each depot was-sth Fusiliers, 80 men, who proceed to the Mauritius ; and 37th Regiment, 49 men, who embark for Ceylon. The Driver, G, paddle-sloop, Commander Chambers, arrived at Portsmouth late on Wednesday night, from the eastward, with a new gunboat in tow. The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht was taken out of the steam basin yesterday, at Portsmouth, and the old yacht, the Oiborne, was taken into the fitting basin for a refit. The paddlewheel eteamvessel Firefly, 4, Commander Day, sailed from Plymouth for the Cape of Good Hope on Tuesday afternoon ; and the screw steam-sloop Niger, 14, in the evening, for the West Coast of Africa. The sloop Acorn, 12, Commander Arthur Hood, from Chatham, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, and was ap- ' pointed to sail yesterday for the Coast of Africa. The screw steam gunvessel Cormorant, 4, Comman der William Bowden, from Sheerness, arrived at Ply mouth on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday for a cruise in the Channel. The African paddlewheel steam-vessel, Second Master Commander Reuben Harvey, arrived at Sheerness on Wednesday from Woolwich, with part of the steam ma chinery for the new screw steam-frigate Emerald, 50, of 600 horse p)wer, now ready for being launched at Dept ford. She is ordered to be brought forward for commis sion for foreign service with all possible despatch at Sheerness. The Myrtle paddlewheel steam-vessel, Master• Co mmander William S. Bouchier, left, Sheerness yesterday at noon for Woolwich, to tow down one of the boilers for the Vigilant, 4 guns, screw steam gun•vessel, Com mander William Armytago, which vessel is ordered to be got ready for sea immediately. The Elk, 12-gun sloop, Commander John F. C. Hamil ton, at Sheerness, was taken in tow yesterday at noon by the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Cuckoo, Lieutenant- Commander Augustus G. E. Murray, and left, after saluting the Commander-in-Chief's flag with 15 guns, for Portsmouth, her final destination being the East Indies and China. Tho Mars, 80, screw steamer, has been docked at Chatham, and will shortly be p'aced in commission. The Cadmus, 21, screw-stuain corvette, has been un docked at Chatham, and taken alongside the shears for the purpose of having her masts put on board. Her machinery will also be put on board, and she is to be completed for sea forthwith. APPOINTMENTS. E. P. Bedwell, Second Master, to the Princess Alice; R. Graham, Surgeon, to the James Watt ; R. P. Hunt, Midshipman, to the Atalanta ; G. J. W. Prowse, Naval Cadet, to the Vulture ; N. Campbell, Naval Cadet, to the Magicienne. Sir C. Wood, as First Lord, received the under mentioned officers at the Admiralty yesterday H. G. Morris, Captain G. P. Hamby, Captain H. Bagot, Captain F. B. Niontresor, Captain F. W. Austen, Cap tain H. Schomberg, Captain L. B. Crawford, Captain A. Mellersh, Captain E. Ommanney, Captain E. G. Fishbourne, Commander Morgan, Commander J. Sander, Commander Thorpe, Commander J. W. Finch, Commander H. Raby, Commander T. A. Pakenhham, Commander C. P. Glinn, Commander C. Bromley, Lieut. J. O. Reilly, Lieut. C. M. Chapman, Lieut. J. B. Field, Lieut. T. Tribe, and Lieut. J. B. Kooystra. BANQUET TO SIR COLLIN CAMPBELL. GLASGOW, THURSDAY MORNING. Last night Major-General Sir Colin Campbell was entertained at a public dinner in the City-hall by the in habitants of Glasgow. It was altogether one of the most brilliant occasions which has taken place in the west of Scotland. Ia all there were about 1,000 per sons present, including a gay party of ladies, who were accommodated in the galleries. The hall was decorated with the flags of the allied nations, ancient armour, and modern illustrations, with several time-honoured ban ners, one of which had waved at the battle of Langside. The Lord Provost filled the chair. On the removal of the cloth, the usual loyal toasts having been given, The LORD PROTOST then called for a special bumper to the health of General Sir Colin Campbell. After the toast had been pledged, the tune of " The Campbells are comin' " was played upon the pipes in capital style by two pipers, who appeared upon the platform dressed in Highland costume. Sir Colin Campbell was received with immense ao lause. He said,—After an absence from Scotland of 52 years, I am now come back once more to receive the highest honour which a large body of my countrymen are able to pay me. This is the most valuable reward, be sides what is felt in a man's own con s ci e nc e , that it is possible to give ; and, believe me, if I cannot reply to your kind and enth us i as ti c recept i on w i th the sk i ll of a practised orator, my thanks come no less true from my heart, because they are clothed in homely language. (Cheers.) I have served in all parts of the world for three-fourths of the period allotted to a man's life, but my fortune and my name have become principally known to you from the accident of my being appointed to com mand that glorious Highland Brigade. (Cheers.) To those valiant soldiers I owe the honour and the happi ness of seeing you this day and of being your youngest burgess, for which honour, and for all your kindness, I beg to return my thanks. Several other toasts having been given, the company broke up shortly after 10 o'clock. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION OF MAJOR GENERAL SIR TV. F. WILLIAMS AT WOOLWICTI. WOOLWICH, THURSDAY. This afternoon the newly-appointed commandant of the garrison of Woolwich arrived for the purpose of as suming the duties of his office, and was received in the most enthusiastic manner by the local authorities mid the inhabitants. Handbills were issued early in the morning, to the effect that the gallant officer would enter • the town at four o'clock by the old Charlton road, and that an address would be presented to him when opposite the King's Arms Hotel. The whole line of road for upwards of a mile was de corated with flags, banners, &c., bearing the inscriptions of " Williams, the Nation's Pride," " Welcome to the Hero of Kars," "Honour to the Brave," itc. At the spot where it was intended to present the ad dress a platform was erected for the accommodation of ladies ; and during the afternoon the whole population of Woolwich appeared to have e ,ngregated in one spot to give a hearty English welcome to the gallant officer. The members of the Woolwich Local Board of Health, wearing rosettes of red, white, and blue, marched in procession front the Town Hall, preceded by the Royal Arsenal band, and took up a position opposite to the King's Arms Hotel. At four o'clock Major-General Williams arrived in a covered carriage, followed by a carriage containing Major Teesdale, and others of his gallant companions. He was received with the most deafening cheering, and the Rev. Henry Brown, rector of Woolwich, stepped to the side of the carriage, and read the following ad dress : " We, the Chairman and Members of the Woo lwich Local Board of Health, most gladly embrace the earliest opportunity afforded us of expressing, on behalf of our selves and our fellow-townsmen, our sincere congratula tions on your safe return to the shores of England, and our admiration of the noble conduct displayed by your self and your gallant companions in arms at the ever memorable siege of Kars. The wisdom, courage, and manly endurance under the most trying circiunstatices, which earned for you the high esteem and regard of a noble minded enemy, cannot but inspire the warmest sentiments of admiration in those who have the honest pride to welcome you as their fellow-countryman. It is little we can aid to the well-merited congratulations which you have already received from so many quarters. We thank God, who has preserved you amid the dangers of war and severe trials of famine, and has brought you again to your own land in peace. While we are confident that it cannot fail to be gratifying to you to be placed in the command of this garrison, by which you are brought into such intimate connection with your old corps, it is a matter of sincere congratulation to us that one who has earned the respect of his country and the world is, for the future, to be re sident amongst ourselves." Major-General Sir W. F. WILLIAMS replied in the following terms :—Next to the honours which have been conferred upon me by her Majesty, the reception which I now experience draws forth the most grateful emotions of my heart, and renders this one of the happiest moments of my life. Although not born, I was educated in Woolwich, and from an early period of my life I have served in the same honourable corps in which my an cestors have served for the past 120 years. Whilst I have the command of the garrison it shall be my care to foster and encourage that kindly feeling which has here tofore existed between the military and civilian popula tion of the town, and to afford every facility for the ut most friendship with the local authorities. For your ex pressions of good feeling and the warm welcome with which you have greeted my arrival amongst you, and your r e f erence t o m y ga ll an t com p an i ons i n arms, I re turn soul my sincere and heartfelt thanks, and rest as sured it shall ever be my endeavour to reciprocate the friendship which you have exhibited. The Royal Artillery band then struck up a lively air, and preceded the carriage of the gallant officer, which entered the garrison by the north arch. The command ant was received by a splendid staff of officers at the , mess room, where a banquet had been provided. The i most extensive preparations for an illumination !Ave • teen ins.kiLg during the day, and many of the transpa rencies and devices exhibited at the public establishments , and at the shops of tradesmen are o f th e mos t su p er b I description. A. TRADESMAN SUPPOSED TO B! POI SONED BY HIS WIFE AT BOLTON. THE LAST OF "TH Pi GARD EN." LITERATURE. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, Tr e sale of the instrumental and 'vocal scores, band parts, and of the operas, pantomimes, meld iranias, and other musical pieces, produced at the late C( went-garden Thea,t r e, which took place yesterday at the auction-room of Me ssrs. Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden, 'O.ll astonish and a , Enoy the musical world in general. TI is re was but very 1 ittle competition, and the consequent was that the pri e•es realised were fabulously low ; hunt the most extrao, inary fact is, the works of Sir Healry Bishop were re lo re at a disc.,unt than any other co reposer, his produc ti, ma never realising above a few shillinzs— " Clari, " with the prompt-book, going for is. ; "The Comed'? of Errors," and prompt-hook, 2s. ; " Fortu natus,". 2s. ; " Henri Quatre," ; " Tlie Land of Zada," :and prompt-book, 2s. 61 ; " Maid Marian," and pts a apt-book, 3s. 6cl. ; " The Miller and his Men," 10s. ; multis aliis. Rooke's opera, " :ffenrique," brougb t 11. ss. ; Rossini's " Cinderella," 21. -4s. ; " Fra Diavol )," 4/. Bs. ; " Der Freischntz," .15s. ; and " Ober o n," together with the original score, 4/. and some f r shillings. The ;pantomimes, including " Mother Goone," " Mo ther S hipton," " Harlequin Padmanaba," and the re maindt c' of the Grimaldi school, obtained a few shillings each ; - fact, had the sale taken place as one of waste paper 1 e amounts realised could not be niers ridicu lously et nall. Among the persons present we recognised Messrs 1, Lacy, (of Wellington-street), Boleno, Tanner, Sheph' jrd, Creswiek, J. B. Johnson, J. Johnson Towers, W. H . Payne, Henry Manley, A. Harris, blioore (late of the and Charles Slornan, the English improvisa tore. '1 "he second day's sale takes place this day (Fri day), N v hen the journals, account-books, receipts with autogn chs of celebrated actors and actresses, scarce play-bi' ll s, &e., will be brought beneath the hammer. Considerable excitement was created in Bolton, on Wednesday morning, by a report that Mr. Daniel M‘Mulleu, flour dealer, of Moor-lane, had died at two o'clock that morning, and that his wife was in custody on suspicion of having poisoned him. On inquiry we found that the rumour was well funded, and that the case was likely to turn out a serious one. The motive a , signed was an insurance policy for 1001., effected 18 months ago, in the Prince of Wales Insurance Office, on the joint lives of the deceased and his wife, the money being payable on the death of either of them. It appears that Mr. M‘Mullen was taken ill eight or ten days ago, and that he called in Mr. Dorrian, slur gem), Blackourn-street. In attending him Mr. Dor rian was astonished at the symptoms manifested by his patient ; and on watching them attentively he became convinced that he was labouring under the effects of poison. Mr. Dorrian then obtained from the servant a portion of some tea made by Mrs. M‘Mullen, and given to her husband on Tuureday last. He also got a portion of his urine, sc., discharged that day, and being analysed by Mr. H. H. Watson, analytical che mist, were found to contain tartarised antimony. This re4ult was obtained on Saturday, and then Mr. Dorrian called in Dr. Chadwick to his assistance. After a con sultation, these gentleme❑ placed the deceased under the care of a nurse, in order that they might be certain that nothing was given to him bat what they ordered. On Tuesday the medical gentlemen became convinced that their patient could not recover, and Mr. Dorrian, therefore, felt it his duty to communicate the facts to Mr. Harris the superintendent of the borough police. Mrs. M'Mullen was, therefore, apprehended on Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of having administered poison to her husband. On her being removed to the police office she at once admitted that there was a powder sold by some druggists called " quietness," which was said to have the quality of breaking husbands of drunkenness and other bad habits ; and that she had given her hus band some of this, but not since the last week but one. The powder, she stated, was obtained of Mr. J. R. Simpson, druggist, Deansgate. Mr. Simpson admits that he sells such powders, and one of them was fur nished to the police, containing 5 grains of tartarised antimony and 15 grains of cream of tartar, which he said were always sold with strict injunctions that the quantity furnished must be given in four doses. A post mortem examination of the bedy of the de ceased was held on Wednesday afternoon by Mr. Dor nen and Dr. Chadwick, Mr. Snape being in attendance on behalf of the accused. The contents of the stomach will be analysed by Mr. H. 11. Watson, analytical che mist, Boston. HEINRICH HEINE. :51ARKET NEWS.—(This Day. CORN EXCHANGE. Notwsr;listanding that the show of English wheat in to day's m ► rket was limited, we have to report a very dull sale for a 11 kinds, and we had no buyers except at reduced prices. Only 3 ,750 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand this we( 1:; nevertheless the trade was heavy, at almost nominal currencies. Floating cargoes of grain commanded less atte ktion. r and malt were in short supply, and heavy re quest, a t barely late rates. The a I pply of foreign oats was larger, and the oat trade was dul I, on rather lower terms. In be ? i ns, peas, and flour very little was doing, at barely station; pry prices. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. £ngllah 1.740 I 2,960 Irish Foreign 1 3,750 3 , 0 70 I Mrs. M'Mullen is the daughter of a highly-respectable Lradesman, whose family are thrown into the deepest distress by this melancholy event. Oats. I Flonr. 120 I 810 2,270 25,440 2 '580 sacks TEN TOM'S OF MhAT WAMD. J hi ETROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Wm. Cobbett to a contemporary : Sir,—Where there is great waste there should be great plenty, and I, therefore, beg to congratulate you and the public at large on the said waste, which, as I hear, occurred at Newgate-market last Monday, when and where no less than 10 vanloads of prime meat stunk for want of buyers ! But how for want of buyers, sir, when we know in upon market such goods must always fetch something The explanation given is in the price, viz , ss. 4d. per 81b., being one-fourth, if not a third, higher than it ever was before up to the rise within the last few years. _ _ The s apply of beasts in to-day's market was limited, and all bree , is sold briskly, at an advance in the quotations rea lised on Monday last of 2d per Blbs. We had a good de mand f( s • sheep, the show of which was small, at 2d per Sibs mo n 3 money. There was a much better feeling in the lamb ti i ,de, and tho currencies improved 2d per Sibs. Although we were extensively supplied with calves, the veal trail.) was active, and prices advanced ld per 81bs. Pigs wood ) firm, but not dearer. Mulch cows were steady, at from 141 to 191 5s each, in cluding their small calf. Well, but price is an effect depending on supply and demand,. and is not a cause; and how could high prices have such a tendency to waste t Nevertheless, so it is ; and, however, in the first place, one serious apprehen sion is removed, viz.—scarcity, which has been the cause assigned for these high prices. It appears, sir, that the sellers rule the market. Last week the price was ss. lid. The way they appear to deal is thus :—You, the consumer, cannot pay our price to-day, therefore go without your dinner, and save up your money until to-morrow, against which time we will hold our meat for you, and then you will be able to pay for a dinner. But it so happened that Monday followed a very warm Sunday and night, and the meat would not then bear this put-off. The sellers had reckoned without their host, and Dame Nature, having in this instanoe to do with perishables, revealed all the secret of the scar city and of the war making the high prices. If it had not been for this accidental revelation, the public would have gone on in the most implicit faith in those alleged causes of the starvation prices to which it was becoming habituated. It is well for us, therefore, that these 10 vanloads (enough to dine about 100,000 of us) were thrown away as a good antidote to the fallacy of scar city ; and therefore it is also well for us that the article was perishable, or it would have been held back in safe clutches until such time as we paid the price or more, or absolutely starved, and we should never have been any wiser as to the cause. I understand that the way those principally concerned in the supply are now coping with all circumstances, and so as to guard against a recurrence of such waste, is, not by lowering the price ; no, no, but by being still more reserved in the supply. Row the general mass of sellers can act as one incorporated or combining body might be supposed to act, in a way which it could not be supposed discontented individuals would act, may be almost in scrutable ; but the fact evidently is that they do so, and no doubt upon the truest principles for their own pecu niary profit. The only questions are, why are all their ears left on, and when will some of them be cropped ? THE SUN, LONDON FRI DA. Y 'EVE ti IN el, J ULY 4, 1856 Heinrich Ileine's Book of Songs. A Translation, by John E. Wallis. Chapman and Hall. Scarcely—thought we, on opening this volume— scarcely three months have elapsed since that melancholy 18th of February when poor Heinrich Heine expired : and lo ! already (purporting no doubt to be his all but living and breathing effigy) here are the mere dry bones of hiin—a caput mor tuum grinning at us from the top of a skeleton. Empty sockets only where once shone forth upon the world the radiant tearful eyes of the lyric philo sopher ! The eloquent tongue perished altogether out of the jaws no longer covered by the mobile lips breathing so often the language of passion i❑ the accents of pathos, and smiling perpetually upon Grief like the beautiful old Shakeperean phantasy of Patience upon the Monument. Here again, thought we, as we mused momentarily over the title-page, here again, in lieu of the old familiar face, the face beloved as familiar, here again, as so often before, we have of course but the grimliest skull tricked out with- a garland, a death's-bed crowned with a wreath of blooming flowers, a coroual of roses, and violets, and carnations ! An other German poet "done into English" posthum ously—another vapid translation—a decanted flask of champagne—a butterfly with the gold and velvet of its wings fingered " off" deplorably—a mere handful of withered leaves gathered from under branches clustered with blossoms in the spring time-_ and heavy with fruit in the autumn-season, dry dead leaves now instead of either mellow fruit or fragrant blossoms. THE PROSPECTS OF PROROGATION. The following is the state of business before the House of Commons, corrected up to 12 o'clock of Wednesday, July 2 : Bills for Second Reading.-16 Government ; 6 not Go vernment. Bills for Committee.-17 Government; 9 not Govern ment. Bills as Amended to be Considered.-3 Government. Bills for Third Reading.-4 Government ; 1 not Go vernment. Lords' Amendments to be Considered.-1 Government. Total Bills.-41 Government ; 16 not Government. Orders of the Day, 4,-viz., Supply, Ways and Means, East India Budget, and Civil Service. Total Business.-61 orders of the day. GOVERNMENT BILLS WAITING FOR SECOND READING. 1. Poor Law (Ireland) -adjourned debate. 2. Encumbered Estates (Ireland). 3. Queen's Colleges (Ireland). 4. Poor Law Amendment (No. 2). E. Magdalen Hospital (Bath). 6. Endowed School at Moultan. 7. Corrupt Practices' Prevention. 8. Dublin University. 10 9 . . E C c o c a i l e w s i h a i s p t c e a r i s (Pt c ou o r rt 11. Hay and Straw Tra de. of Lo) 12. Burial Acts Amendment. 13. Mercantile Law Amendment. 14. Vice-President of Committee of Council on Ednca- Lion. 15. Leases and Sales of Settled Estates. 1 G Appellate o VERJurisdiction E s TLL G B(IIIosu; WAITING L o r OR d s )F SECOND . BIL 6 I,S(NOT RADIN. 1. Judgments' Execution, &c.-adjourned debate. 2. Bleaching, &c., Works (No. 2) -adjourned debate. 3. Rating of Mines. 4. Gaols, kc. 5. Testamentary and Matrimonial Jurisdiction. 6. Grand Juries, &e. (Ireland). GOVERNMENT BILLS WAITING TO GO INTO COMMITTEE. 1. Church Building Commission. 2. Turnpike Acts Continuance. 3. Burial-grounds (Ireland) -progress. 4. Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland). 5. Wills and Administrations. 9. Nuisances' Removal, No. 2 (Scotland). 7. Hospitals (Dublin). 8. Partnership Amendment (No. 2). 9. Vaccination. 10. Militia Ballots Suspension. 11. Court of Chancery (Ireland) Receivers. 12. Court of Appeal in Chancery (Ireland). 13. County Courts Acts Amendment. 14. Public Health. 15. Marriage Law (Scotland) Amending. 16. Mercantile Law (Scotland) Act Amendment. 17. Medical Profession. AS AMENDED TO BE CONSIDERED. 1. Prisons (Ireland). 2. Parochial Schools (Scotland). 3. Deeds (Scotland). BILLS (NOT GOVERNMENT BILLS) WAITING TO GO INTO COMAITEEE. 1. Registration of Leases (Scotland). 2. Scientific and Literary Societies. 3. Procedure before Justices (Scotland). 4. Procedure and Evidence. 5. Joint-Stock Banks—adjourned debate. 6. Tithe Commutation Rent-charge. 7. Formation of Parishes —progress. 8. Joint-Stock Companies' Winding-up Acts Amendment BILLS WAITING FOR TRIED READING—GOVERNMENT. 1. Metropolis Local Management Act Amendment (No. 2). 2. Distillation from Rice. 3. Courts of Common Law (Ireland). 4. Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) . NOT GOVERNMENT. 1. Oxford College Estates. LORDS' AMENDMENTS TO BE CONSIDERED. 1. Police (Counties and Boroughs)—Government. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULT 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been doing a very quiet business to-day, closing dull at about yesterday's Ei g hths, new, 6s. 3d. Z.—E ast Lancashire, 221 quotations : — London and Ngrth-Western s , l o 9 a i L p a it U t c o a'shire and Yorkshire, 99 84 i—Midlands, 85 41 Manc h es t e r, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 351 c.—Dutch Rhenish, 2.1 6 . 3 . p. — North Eastern, Yo rk Capital Stock, 32R —Great Western of Canada, 26i—Eastern Counties, 10.13.9., 16.3.--Blackburn, Bh—South Eastern, 23i — Royal Bank, 418—Royal Insurance, 2.11.3. p. MANCHESTER, JULY 3. STOOS EXCHANGE. — The market has be en d o i ng a large business to-day, with better prices, but closing ra ther weaker. Eastern Counties, 10 11-16—M. and B. C. Q rs ., p.—Great Western of Canada, 26k—Midlands, 85k —Blackburn, B—East Lancashire, 22 3.l6—Sheffields, 351 —Ditto. Pref., 12 15.16Dovers, 23k 1-16—Leeds, 98i — Dutch Rhenish, 25 p.—North Western, 61—Great Wes tern, 6-tk -London Stock, 1 091—Great Northern A, 10k North British, 10k. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 3. STOWE EXORANGE.—This market was active to-day, and prices tending higher, at the following quotations : London and North-Westerns, 109 4—Great Western Bir mingham Guaranteed Stook, 75i. LEEDS. JULY 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. —North Eastern, Yorks, 32i I Midlands 85 North Eastern, Leeds, 191—North British, 10. TEA.-- The market has been exceedingly quiet, and the quotation s are quite nominal. Common congon is firmly supported! at 9d, but very little business has been tran sacted either for home use or for exportation. ST:MAR.—A. good business has been done in this article by private contract, and fully previous rates have been ob tained for all descriptions of both foreign and colonial. Importers continue to demand high rates, and but little has been announced for public sale. Mauritius brought 44s 4d to 46s per cwt. The refined market has also ruled very firm, and brown lumps brought 56s per cwt. It is re ported that the Russian Government has reduced the im port duty en sugar about 8s per cwt Penang mid to good brown 41s to 425, and Java good greyish 46s to 47s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—The firmness exhibited in the market still continues, and no public sales have taken place. Privately a good business has been done, and Plantation and Native Ceylon have realised higher rates. Clean Native brought 51 to 52s 641 per cwt. Mocha has been much inquired for. Cocoa.--This article has been in better demand, and full prices have been realised. Guayaquil 48s to 48s 6d ; for good inferior, 47s 6(1 per cwt. RICE.—The market has been flat, and previous prices have been barely supported: Ballam, Os 6d ' • Bengal, goad pearly, 12s 6d to 13s; Java, whit e , lO s 6d to 13s; old white Bengal, 12s per cwt. has boon no business reported in this ar ticle to any extent. One parcel of Demerara realised 2s 4d per proof gallon. SPlCES.—Nutmeg met a steady demand, and brought full prices ; small to middling, is 10d to 24 4d ; middling to good middling,b rown , 2s 5d to 2 3 9d ; goo d b o ld 3s Gd per lb. Mace rued firm ; low middli ng t o fi n e, is 11d to 2s 3d ; fine bold pale, 33 2d er lb. Cloves went rather cheaper; g oo d an d f i ne, 1s lid. Black pepper brought firm prices ; Batavia, grey, 4,“; Penang, small black, 44d to 44-d ; Penang, white, 7,id to 7jd ; for middling good bold Cayenne, 6d per lb . COCHINEAL has been in less demand, and prices have rather given way. Teneriffe silver, 3s 10d to 3s lid ; black, 4s to 4s 3d ; Honduras silve r , 3 s 10d to 4s id. SALTPETRE. —The market has been firm, and prices have slightly advanced. Bengal, 9 1-6 to 7. lbs refraction, 303 to 303 Gd, B?slbs to Nibs 325, and tilbs 31s 6d per cwt. TALLOW. —The market rules very firm. P.Y.C. spot, 47s 3d to 475 6d ; last three months, 483 3d to 48s 6d per cwt. GREEN FRUIT. —Lemons have improved in value. A parcel Messina, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, wont at an advance of 2s to 3s per case. The crop of West India pine apples is backward. Per Bibs to sink the Mix. s. d. s. d. I a. d. s. d. Interior E easts.... 3 Bto 4 o;PrimeSonthdown 5 6 5 8 Second q .‘ tality....4 2 4 4 lAarge crse. calves 310 4 8 Prime lay 4;e oxen 4 6 4 I()Prime small d 0... 410 5 2 Prime Sc o ts, die. 5 0 5 2 Large hogs 3 il 4 0 Inferior f Pueep _4 2 4 4 Small porkers ... 4 4 410 Second qla silty _4 6 4 10 ‘ Suckling calves.. 23 0 30 11 Prime or ad h-wlled.4 10 5 2/Quarter old pigs. 22 0 29 0 Lamb, 5s Cd to 6s Od. ' I'C'TAL SUPPLY. I FOREIGN 1317PPLY. Beasts -•.. . . 920 I BEMIS '' •-••••••.. • 110 Sheep an /lambs ........ 7,000 ( Sheep and lambs .. ••••.... 300 Calves .. ..... •• .......... 601 1 Ca1ve5............ ~...... 400 Pigs .. -- . ......... 503 1 Pigs—. •• .. •• • ..... ...... NEWGATE AND The t rude generally ruled Per 81be by LEADENHALL. [rm , as follows : the carcase. s. d. e. d: Beef, bal 'e riot 3 4 3 6 Do., mi. Idling 3 8 3 10 Do. pri me large 4 0 4 2 Do., do. small 4 4 4 8 Pork, la ego .3 6 4 2 Lamb, 4a s. d. s. Mutton, Inferior 3 10 4 0 Do., middling 4 2 4 6 Do., prime 4 8 5 0 Veal 3 6 4 10 Pork. small 4 4 4 8 ;d to 5s Bd. BOROUGH HOP. We h fore still to notice a fair demand for nearly all kinds of hops, .and late rates are well supported. Our accounts from the' plantations are still rather milavourable. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 12s to 61 lOs per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 315 s to 51 103; Sussex, 313 s to 51. COLONIAL. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. --(This Day.) LONDON, July 4.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ; light wind, and fine weather. ... PORTSM OUTII, July 3.—Wind S. --Arrived—Adelaide (s tpt.), from the Crimea; Victoria (s. tpt.), Balaklava ; Britannia (s. tpt.), Cork. Sailed—Anna Elizabeth, for Hong Kong. PLYMOUTH, July 3.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—H.M.S. Joan d'Acre, from Portsmouth. Sailed—H.M.Str. Acorn, for coast of Africa. _ ALMOUTH, July 3.—Wind. E.—Arrived—Trent, from Akyab ; Maria, Rio Janeiro ; Prussian brig Thetis and Prussian sloop-of-war, eastward. NEWPORT, July 3.—Wind E.—Arrived—Principe, from Havre, for St. Thomas. (PER ELECTRIC, TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived —Purveyor, from Swanage ; Avon and Tiber, Cardiff; Gertrude and Hope, Newport. Sailed—Effort, for Sunderland ; George, Newport. Tho steam transport Severn passed Hurst, en route to Portsmouth, at 8 a.m. - - LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind N. Arrived—Giaour,' from Antwerp ; Chicago, St. John's, N.B. ; St Patrick, screw steamer. Malta ; Sea Nymph, screw steamer, Gibraltar ; Eleanor Thompson, Porto Rico; Sagitario, Hamburg. Sailed—Vocalist, for Sydney, New South Wales ; liam M. Rodgers, New York ; Alps, steamer Havre and New York ; China, Baltimore ; Conquest, Callao ; Reine des Anges, Marseilles. QUEENSTOWN, July 2. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Norther❑ Queen, from Callao ; Bessie and Sagittarius, Piraeus ; Mentor, Emma Dreg, and Eudora, Galatz. Sailed—Lismoyne, for 'long kong. WATERFORD, July 2. Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Mara, steamer, from Athens. DUBLIN, July 3. Wind N.N.W. Arrived—Daddler, from Jaffa. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.38 a.m. Wind calm ; tide, first hour's flood ; fine. Arrived.—Esperance, from Tonsberg. Sailed July 3.—Kielmanaegge, for liarbourg. Sailed, 4th.—Biesboch, for Batavia . DEAL, Thursday, 9.25. a.m. Wind N.E., Passed, July 3.—Sultana, from London, for Sydney ; Portia, barque, from Shields, for Malta. Passed 4th.— Lord Stanley, from Callao, for London, to leeward ; Cambodia, from London, for Calcutta ; Sea Park, from London, for Madras. The Plymouth Rock, from London for New York, did not strike on the bank off here on the 30th ult., as stated in Lloyd's List of the 2d inst., as reported by some person not connected with this office. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. — METROPOLIS ROADS. —This committee met yesterday ; Lord Robert Gros venor in the chair. After a short discussion, it was agreed that they should report to the house, and ask leave to resume their inquiry in the next session of Par liament. _ FIRE AT SOMERS Tows.—Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. J. Mansford, clothier and outfitter, 9, Skinner-street, Somers-town. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock, the flames were not subdued until after two hours' active exertion. The whole of the stock in trade, furniture, &c., was destroyed, and the premises nearly gutted. Mr. Mansford was in sured in the Sun Office. The cause of the fire is not known. Au egregious mistake all this—a flagrant example of most erroneous anticipations ! The book is admirable, from first to last really admirable. It is the voice of Heinrich Heine himself we are listening to, the same voice through another tongue, different in word but not in thought, and most like, strangely marvellously like in its variable and dulcifluous modulations ! Henceforth, Wallis will be to us a name of good omen. For already one artist of that name, an artist of the brush has rejoiced our eyes and touched our heart profoundly by his exquisite representation of the Suicide of Chatter ton, one of the most remarkable pictures now adorning the Royal Academy Exhibition. Another artist of the same name, an artist of the pen (John E. Wallis) has through the medium of this charm ing volume of translation conveyed to the ea•s of lettered Englishmen unversed in the original, the melody as well as the meaning of Heinrich Heine's " Book of Songs," Buch der Lieder—those songs which are so to speak his pass ports to immortality the unfading bloom the imperishable aroma of that supreme efflorescence of his genius, the work which may be regarded as the type of his powers, the great book of the Peisebilder. Among all his various and volu minous writings—" Almansa," and "Radcliffe," and " Salon," and " Nene Gedechte," and " Ro manzero," his " Romantische Schule," his " Ver mischt Schrif ten," and his " Gestanduisse"—this one important production, his Reisebilder stands forth conspicuously and characteristically. And what the Reisebilder was considered in regard to HeinrichHeine'slintellect, his Buda der Lieder may be said to have been, when vie wed in relation to the Reisebilder. It was the " cream of the cream"—the quintessence of the quintessence. A translation of the poetry of the " Reisebilder" has already ap peared in the English language, a version penned some time since by Mr. C. G. Leland, and re cently published at Philadelphia. With that version, however, we have nothing to do beyond simply mentioning it thus, as a thing accomplished. The translation for the most part having been written so long ago, Mr. Wallis tells us in his Pre face, as 1840, rests altogether (in spite of the prior issue of Mr. Leland's volume from the press of Philadelphia), entirely and wholly upon a basis of perfect independence. Produced originally, as we have said, in 1840 (sixteen years ago), when our translator was a student at a German university, it was only revised and arranged at the suggestion of a German friend (revised and arranged in Ger many) as recently as 1852, and four years more were then allowed to elapse before the time actu ally came at last for its substantive publication. Then poor Heine was no more—the eight dreadful years during which he had been slowly dying in Paris had come to an end—and there was a term at length to his tears and to his laughter. Hap pily for those who can but read Heinrich Heine's " Book of Songs" at second hand, through the interpreting of a Translator, Mr. ;Wallis appears to have set about his task from the outset with a most accurate and lively sense of the great require ments of a translator—those of reconciling or ad justing as ingeniously as possible " the letter, the spirit, and the melody of the original." How far he has succeeded in this endeavour let the volume before us answer, a goodly volume extending to 350 pages octavo, and embracing the whole of the Famous "Songs" first collected into one " Book " in 1827—the " Songs" lamenting the vain passion of the poet for the blue-eyed, light-haired, pretty faced, ladye-love who, to sum up her qualities in three words, was small, cold, and insignificant. What poetry there is in these Songs ! What pas sion—what pathos—whatj oy—what anguish—what tenderness ! How grotesque they are—how spon taneous ! They make us weep one moment! and the next shake ourside with merriment. Heinrich Heine loves—Ah, how he loves ! The Book tells us. It tell us by the pages blotted and blurred with his tears—for he loves, as we have said, in vain ! It tells us by the hand sometimes covering his face suddenly to hide the grief, a grief too sacred for revelation. Listen to him ! Here is ono of his " Songs" (viii.), but four lines in all— " At first I fancied in despair I ne'er could learn my fate to bear, Yet I have learn'd to bear it now— But, oh I you must not ask me how I" Now by a quaint imagining, analogous somewhat to that of Professor Longfellow : " And•our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave—" he amuses his agony of mind by singing— " Love, lay thy hand on my bosom here ; List what a knocking and noise is there. There dwells a carpenter strange to see; He hammers a coffin that's meant for me. He knocks and hammers both night and day ; He's driven already my sleep awry. Oh, master carpenter, hasten fast, That I may slumber and rest at last." Another while, among his w ild er an d fiercer "Dreams," ho cries out to a harp, in the voice of a harper perched upon his tombstone— " Know ye, ye strings, so sad, so still, The strain that wildly used to thrill Our hearts in the world above? 'Tie heavenly bless where the avels dwell, The devils they call it the pain of Hell But its name on earth is LovE." A nightmare of woe reveals his love to him at another moment, seated by the side of her rejoicing bridegroom— " The bridegroom fills the goblet up; He drinks, and gives the bride the cup ; With sweetest smile, I see her thank— And, woe is me ! my blood she drank ! A rosy apple from the board The bride presents unto her lord ; Ho takes his knife, the fruit to part,- - Ah, me !he cuts into my heart ! They mingle glances fond and warm, The bridegroom clasps her in his arm ; On her fair check his kisses glow, O Death ! thy icy kiss 1 know." Sometimes we cannot but conjecture that Mr. Wallis allows himself unconsciously to wander into imitation, as in his version of " Don Ramiro," beginning " Donna Clara ! Donna Clara," and re minding one of the " Lady Clara Vere de Vere" of Tennyson. Sometimes, on the other hand, Heine himself reminds us (may be to him no less uncon sciously) of others—as through his " Lay of Re pentance" we catch a glimpse as it were of the con ceits of Cowley, or through his " Lay of the Ducats," revive our memory of Hood's ever-me morable Miss Kielmansegge. How wondrously he paints his own features and his own inner character at times, this uncompromising satirist —satirist even of his own foibles ! Does he not acknowledge once in the opening of a sonnet addressed to his brother, B. Heine, née von Geldern— " I know I bear my head somewhat too high, My hasty temper no'er a cross will brook ; Should a king seek to dau nt me with his look, I should encounter him with steadfast eye." Crying out at another moment, as in extenuation, or at least in explanation of his sardonic bitterness of spirit : "I sought love everywhere, at every gate I stretch'd my hands out with a yearning sigh, And begg'd a little love for charity ; But mockingly they only gave me hate." Altogether the " Book of Songs" must be accepted, as Heinrich Heine himself intimates, as the pro duct of a minstrel whose heart is wounded— " And who from his inmost bosom Pours, like blood, his tuneful lays,— He is victor, and his guerdon From the fairest, sweetest praise." His weepings, even, he reminds us, in another part, are eloquent— " Wbere'er my bitter tear-drops fall, The fairest flowers arise ; And into choirs of nightingales Are turn'd my bosom's sighs." As a►n example of the infinite tenderness of his The Sub-Alpine Kingdom ; or, Experiences and Studies in Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa. By Bayle St. John. London : Chapman and Hall. Mr. Bayle St. John is a republican de la vieile. He is no advocate of half measures, and in his utter detestation of monarchy, which he looks upon as the one "unclean thing," to be shunned at all hazards, he regards the future of Italy as admitting only of one ray of light, viz., the establishment of an Italian republic, which shall comprise the Lom bardo-Venetian and Neapolitan Kingdoms, the Roman States, and the dominions of Victor Em manuel. That no mistake may arise as to his views our author says in his preface—" If the two foreign armies, French and Austrian which are engaged in protecting the oppressors of the country are driven out to make way for anything but Liberalism . . . I shall feel but little interest in the matter." Now we are as little likely as any to find fault with even a very advanced stage of Liberality in politics, but when we find a writer like Mr. St. John, under cover of a narrative of his Italian tour, going out of his way to scatter dirt (and that pretty thickly too) upon the only Italian Government which has shown any regard for popular rights, and asserting in a species of republican frenzy that the very existence of monarchy has a tendency to dwarf the intellect and demoralise the mind of a nation, we admit there is au exalted sphere of Li beralism to which we have not yet attained. The book before us is a clever and amusing work, but to a great extent spoilt by a continual harping on this string. As a proof of this we subjoin a few extracts, taken almost at random, from its pages. Apropos of one, Jean Gay, described by Mr. St. John as a "Savoyard %Vat Tyler," the author says, L°They (the king's party) c a j o l e d him, and got him into their power, and royalty would have been faithless to its character had it not immediately broken its faith and hanged him." And again, —" The people who do not deserve this title (cre tins) are often but just removed from the same state. In all cases the native mind seems clogged. It turns slowly. I wonder how the country can have produced so astute a race of sovereigns." The next is still more absurd :—" As was natural to ex pect, the inhabitants of the districts where intel lect is but slightly developed are fervently devoted to monarchy." It is seriously put forth, too, as " the fundamental doctrine of European monarchy —that when a man by any means acquires the power of taxing or hanging at pleasure any consi derable number of human beings, he at once be comes God's representative, an his fortunes are indissolubly bound up with those of Christianity." " Ferocious cruelties" are stated to be the " usual zests of royal existence," and the exeoution of Louis the Sixteenth, is stated to be " identical with putting out of the way a noxious animal (H- I ferently organised from ourselves." These extracts are taken without any particular care in their selection, and go far to prove that although Mr. St. John can, and often does write, both amusing and instructive matter, the politics incorporated therewith are of an extravagant, not to say rabid, description. Nor do the aristocracy fare one whit better than the kings themselves. "There are few rich men without the taint of nobility ; few people, there fore, of liberal opinions." Some of Mr. St. John's sneers are amusing. Of La Piccolomini, whose birth he almost forgives, ho says—" She succeeded prodigiously at Turin. The elegant young gentle men from under the porticos thought it necessary to be almost epileptic on the occasion. I never saw anything more offensive, and was glad to be told that many of the youths in the pit whom I took for hairdressers and waiters were idle slips of ari§tocracy. It is no matter what they say or do." One more extract on this subject, and we have done. It involves, however, a more serious charge against tire author, who appears not merely to palliate, but to revel in the atrocious excesses of the first French Revolution, and to find in that of 1848 but one fault, an unwillingness to shed the necessary amount of royal and aristocratic blood. We can scarcely believe that it is in these terms he speaks of the brutal massacre of women and children, the " Noyades " and "Fusillades" of Lyons and Marseilles. " Except when they cleared away the aristocratic vermin last century in France, the people in revolution have always gone off into foolish ecstacies of forgetfulness and forgiveness—there is nothing so imprudent as to spare an enemy who keeps a dagger in his sleeve. It is not now perhaps necessary to kill, but it is certainly necessary to impoverish and banish whole classes and orders both in Italy and elsewhere as soon as accident gives victory to the people." We have then given an idea of the moral de duced by Mr. St. John from all he saw at Pied mont and the adjacent territory. We respect his ardour in the cause of Italian liberty, but we wholly differ from his conclusion. Charles Albert it is ad mitted was very far from faultless. Per sonal ambition shared largely in the causes which induced him to risk his life and crown against the forces of Austria. His son, the pre sent King, may not be inclined to make the full amount of confession which the popular voice of Piedmont requires. He may be, and probably i s , yet fettered by those despotic toiners which have These extensive grounds are nightly crowded with fashionable company. During the past week two spe cial fetes have been given to compliment and amuse the juvenile portion of its patrons, on which occasions bal loon ascents have taken place, the villagers' dances of the Elizabethan days have been characteristically por trayed, morning performances in the cirque have been given, in which the celebrated 111‘Cullom has engaged, and the esplanade pier, with the advantages of water effect, has been made available for pyrotechnic displays. Of these days yesterday may be mentioned as the most worthy of record for extent of amusement and amount of patronage. It will probably be in the recollection of many of our readers that several fetes were given here in 1851, which were termed " naval" from the fact that they were carried out onthe:esplanade and Thames, with the assistance of the Iron and Citizen steam boats. These were very successful. The fete of yesterday was of a similar character, and served to mark the anniversary of the formation of a highly-respect able association, the Citizen Steam Boat Company, whose excellent arrangements have conduced very much to the public convenience, as well as to increase the eclat of a public fete. _ _ By Half-past ten o'clock the whole of the boats bad taken up their positions, and upon a signal rocket being fired, which announced the presence of the Citizen direc tors, with their families and friends, the guns from the esplanade assembled the eremorne visitors, who, preceded by the brass band, very soon occupied every available space upon the esplanade, the pier itself being kept clear for the discharge of the set pyrotechnic pieces. The firing.commenced from the pier, and for a consider able period the air was filled with ornamental lights of every colour, while the fixed wheels an'? fountains gave to the scene around tile character of a Vesuvius eruption. The final piece, " G6d save the Queen," was worked out with diamond lights, surrounded by showers of rockets,, hand grenades, &c., while the boats sent forth tnyria Is of Roman candles, and appeared to open clouds of golden fire, which, with red lights innumerable, formed a most splen did tableaux, and an appropriate close to a very me morable public day. The balloon ascent was a most pleas ing one. The descent was made in perfect safety on Put ney Heath. The last juvenile fete will take place on Thursday next. METROPOLIPAN BOARD OF WORKS. Yesterday, at a special meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works, held at Guildha►l, the following Jotter was read by the elerk :—" Office of Works, &e., July 2. S►r,—l am directed by the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, &c., to forward you a copy of the report, dated June 30, which has been presented to him on the 'low of the tide in the river Thames, above and below Plumstead. It is satisfactory to find that the observations male by Captain Burstal corroborate the accuracy of those which were made by your engineer, under the direction of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, in 1851. But the First Commissioner desires particularly to direct your attention to one of the obser vations made by Captain Borstal. He showa that if the sewage is discharged into the Thames at Piumatead two hours before high water, which is the time proposed by your engineer, say at 11h. 16:n., it will reach North Woolwich pier at 125. 3m., the Dockyard Stairs at 12h. 15m., Charlton pier at 12b. 27m., Hookness at lb. 3m. p.m., Victoria Dock at lb. 25:11,, East India Docks'at lh. 40m. The high water then becomes slack at 2b. 12m. between the East and West India Docks, and it returns, reaching the East India Decks at 2h. 30in., Vic toria Dock at 2h. 48m., Hookness at 3h. Bm., Charlton pier at 35. 33w., Dockyard-stairs at 3h. 42w., North Woolwich pier at 35. 52w., and Plumstead at 4h. 38w., thus oscillating between Plumstead and a point near the West India Docks for five hours and 22 minutes every tide. By the Metropolitan Act of 1855 it is provided that `the Metropolitan Board of Works shall make sewers and works for preventing all or any part of the sewage within the metropolis trona flowing or passin; into the Thames, in or near to the metropolis.' But the scheme submitted for the approval of:the First Commis. sioner actually provides that the sewage ,shall flow into the Thames at a point within the metropolis. It con sequently follows that before any such scheme can be carried out it will be necessary to call upo❑ Parliament to repeal so much of the act of last session as provides for the purification of the river Thames within the me tropolis. The First Commissioner feels that he cannot undertake to do this, and, considering that the scheme is entirely at variance with the intention of the Legisla ture, as set forth in the act which passed last August, he considers it to be his duty to return the plans which were submitted for• his approval.—l am, Sir, your obe, dient servant, ALFRED AUSTIN, Secretary." The letter was ordered to be taken into consideration on an early occasion. Mr. Layard has left Constantinople for Trieste and Vienna. ' 7 Anew kind of fraud," says the Journal d'Elbeuf, " has just been originated. Ladies' muslin collars, to all appearance handsomely e mbroidered, are offered for sale, and when the purchaser proceeds to handle the new article a little roughly the seeming embroidery falls off; being nothing else than little lumps of paper cleverly pasted on the muslin. A man has been a rres t e d i n t hi s town for selling such articles." GIFTS.—The cry of " What next, and next ?" has become pr overbial , and m a y now b e applied familiarly to that which in a very especial manner conc erns th e ladies of the British Empire. It appears that a large Muslin Warehouse had given extensive orders in variouf colours, and amongst the articles manufactured were 'a considerable number adapted for Half Mourning ; but it was discovered that there is a vecia/ty with reference to the latter, and that the business is confined to some two or three trading Mourning houses, whose vast stock of choice novelties identifies them in the opinion of ladies generally with "great bargains." And therefore, as was to be expected, the Messrs. Jay, at 247, Regent street, became large purchasers of these Half Mourning Mills line. But the wonder is to come. The said Muslins are eminently delicate in texture and beautiful in pattern, and, however fabulous it may appear, they are selling at little more than half a franc a yard ! Some of these Muslins have already been purchased by personages of the highest distinction, Truly they are "(ft. I love strains, take the following as marvellously ex pressive and characteristic : " Lay thy check to my cheek. Our tears together shall flow, love; Press thy heart to my heart, The flames together shall glow, love. And when on the mighty flame shall flow The stream that our tears shall make, love ; And when in my arms I clasp thee fast, My longing heart shall break, love." Was that a recollection of Heine, in " Maud I"-- "The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near ;' And the white rose weeps, She is late ;' The larkspurs listens, I hear, I hear,' And the lily whispers, I wait.' " For did not Heine sing in the Intermezzo of his " Book of Songs r " The violets whisper and whisper, And glza at the stars above ; The roses all softly murmur Their stories of fragant love." In illustration of the ineffable sadness of some of these love ditties, we give the subjoined : " A dream has made me weep ; I dreamed that thou wart dead ! And when I awoke, my cheeks Were wet with the tears I'd shed. A dream has made me weep ; I dreamed that thou went gone ! And when I awoke from sleep, I bittnly still wept on. A dream has made me weep ; I dreamed that thou wert true ! I woke and wept, and even now My tears break forth anew." As an all-sufficient reason for the utterance of his heart's grief, sings the songster : " Children in the dark and lonely Always feel their spirits cowed. And to chase away their terror, Sing their simple songs aloud. I, as mere a child as any, In the dark am singing here ; Though the tune be nowise pleasing, Still it has dispell'd my fear." Finally, as a most exquisite example of the pathos, of the tenderness, of the touching and manly ge nius of Heinrich Heine, we transfer from his " Book of Songs" the following delicious fragment of pOetry—poetry, as we read it, brimming - t;()ars into our eyes, and flooding Inn . heart with eine ' tions only evoked by a sympathy for the true and the beautiful : " As once on a journey I happened The friends of my love to meet; Sister, and father, and mother Caase joyfully forward to greet. They asked me how had my health been And added, with smiling grace, That I was in no way altered, Though rather pale in the face. 1 ask'd after uncles and cousins, And many a tedious spark, And after the little puppy, Famed for his tiny bark. Then after my married sweetheart I ask'd, as was only kind ; And quite in a friendly manner, They said she was just confined. I wished them joy sincerely, ' And lisp'd in the kindest way ; I sent her a thousand good wishes, Which they would, I hoped, convey. The sister, interrupting, Cried ont, that the little hound . Had grown up wild and savage, And in the Rhine been drowned. The little one's like her sister, And most when she laughs in glee; Her eyes are the same precisely As those that ruin'd me." That, we take it is poetry, true poetry. And no wonder Heine, who could write straight from the core of his his own heart to the core of the hearts of other men, could—without any coxcombry at all—boast— " I am a German poet, Known in all German lands; And when they name their greatest, My name among them stands." Peace to his shade ! His poor, lacerated, gentle, toying heart is still at length for ever. " Where be his gibes now ? his flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ? his gambols ? his songs I" His Songs I—Here ! Here, in the origi nal collection of them from the Beisebilder. Here, in Mr. Wallis's graceful and truthful English Translation. As the writer of these Songs Hein rich Heine will henceforth be remembered—Hein rich Heine, whose effigy might be most aptly pour trayed (as Garrick's was in Reynolds' picture, between Comedy and Tragedy) midway between the weeping Heraclitus and the laughing Demo critus ! k for ages grown around every continental throne and which will stunt and distort the young growth of constitutional freedom ; but in the present con-. dition of Italian politics no other leader is to be found for the forces of civilisation. A united re, p'iblic is out of the 'question. Rome, Florence, Naples, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Venice would all put forth their claims to be regarded as the centre of GovernMent, and the difficulties of race, not easily reconciled under a monarchy, would be added to the other causes of.- intes , tine weakness, while every 'quarrel would' be fomented and encouraged by the emissaries of those absolutist 'monarchs on whoserdiiininions the "young republic . ' bordered. An . ltalian republic is a dream—beautiful we admit in the abstract, but, fro n d m a n y c buses, m or a l, political, and social, incapable of realisation just 'Victor Em -wanuel is at present the object OffliWuch popular sympathy and applauKe in this .ceuntry-, , 'and the moral support alone of Englandis .no value to him. He is too shrewd an observer to risk the best ally he has, or can have, for the sake of a little more domestic power. By supporting lint as a nucleus fur the constitutional party iu Italy, we are at least keeping awake the embers of 'national liberty, while.oursympathies would be b. 14.1 wasted on the more, brilliant but for less practical schemes of Messrs. Mezzini and Pailavicini. Having thus expressed our disffin . from the teaching of Me:St...Jelin; we must not part from him without affording him such praise as is due for- the information coutai e neAc ill' 'his book. The matter is not unduly "spun out," and all who read will find something to repay them. The en thusiasm on the subject of Jean. . Jacques ROsseau is perhaps a little overdone, but this may be par doned to a writer of such very " exalted" opi nions. The chapter on the "G reen Table" at Aix gives a fearful picture of the effects of gam bling, none the l ess s t r iki ng th a t i t i s perfectly free from exaggeration. The brief historical narrative of the ,',l-louse 1 , -- Savoy is — W e ll and clearly taiidenied from more voluminous materials ; and. the scenes in uriu are extremely amusing. The theatres, the press, the state of . .,literature and politics, the personnel of the lenders .of pirty, ate all treated iu a free and gossipping manner. Count Cavear seems greatly to have ex cited the dislike, of the author, who is something more than doubtful of his sincerity, and the book winds up with a strong coudennia.tion of our for e i gn policy so far as the Uited States are concerned, and an urgent admonition to our statesmen to push, matters to a crisis in the Italian peninsula, so as to prevent the consolidation of despotic forces on the 'Continent. It will probably be a popular work with those who regard the Italian question through the same medium with Mr. St. Joln, but cautious men will shake their beads at the nature as well as the extent of the remedies he recommends. Sight-Seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the Autumn of 1855. By Sir John Forbes. Loudon: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. This is a plain and unpretending narrative of a journey of pleasure undertaken by the author' last autumn. It describes briefly the route to some 40 of the principal towns and cities in Germany, and the leading objects to be seen therein. It will be a useful guide-book to those who dislike the troube of hunting out the various continental " sights," and will serve to recall to those who have already "done" Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, &c., the principal curiosities and attractions over which they have yawned or fallen into raptures according to their several temperaments. It pretends to be nothing more, and it is nothing more. The author evi dently has considerable power of observation, and we would suggest to him that some few charac teristics of the people on his route, their habits, &c., would brighten a book that may otherwise be considered " dry." For the fidelity of his ac counts in many instances we can vouch, but he has scarcely made the most of his subject or done jus tice to his own powers of description. His Irish Memoranda led us to anticipate a more interesting as well as a more philosophical narrative. ROYAL C.REMORNE GA.RDBNS. .••••• ety the E. 2d, 1 it )3/. the DUB 11 • 1 ) 1