The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY _NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. A further quantity of gold, viz., £2,250, was despatched this morning to the United States by the steamer North Britain, and it is expected that the movement will continue notwithstanding the improving tone of the advices from New York. Telegraphic intelligence received to-day reports the departure of the following ships with gold from Victoria for this country, viz., the Wellesley with 32,854 ozs. ; Strathedon, 40,040 ozs. ; Essex, 14,845 ozs.; and the Champion of the Seas, 9,154 ozs., making a total of 105,893 ozs., valued at £423,572. In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, there was a fair demand for most descriptions, at full prices. The sales wero 9,000 bales. Notice has been given by the Spanish Financial Commission, that the auction of the Foreign Re deemable Debt will take place at Madrid on the 29th inst., for which purpose the Government have assigned 1,472,020 reals, The particulars have been advertised of the drawing, by lot, of a number of Austrian 5 per Cent. Bonds of 1859. At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of Mr. W. H. Surridge, provision agent, &c., it was stated that the liabilities were £40,121, and the assets £39,294, but as this is only a general view of the estate, it is expected that the assets will not realise the above sum. It was ultimately agreed to accept a composition of 13s. in the pound, payable by instalments. The market for Public Securities continues firm, Consols being 911 1 for money, and 92 for the February account, but very little business is transacted, except for the settlement. Speculation is quieter, and very few :dealings are reported for transfer. The New Threes are steady at 911 1; Reduced are flat at 911 4 ; India Stock is 220 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan, 100 1I ; and Exchequer Bills have receded to 4s. dis. and par. Foreign Securities show continued firmness, and the dealings are limited. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 701 to 70; ditto New (1858), 551,- to 56 ; k, ; Mexi can have improved to 21k; Portuguese to 441 1 ; Russian 5 per Cents. to 104 I ; Spanish to 48 and ditto Deferred to 401 ; Dutch:4 per Cents. are steady at 100 f. _ _ The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : ____ 1860. Great Western . . North-Western South-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern Great Northern 19,680 Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 5,151 North-Eastern Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln West Midland Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,281 Glasgow and South-Western 8,991 Grand Trunk of Canada 1859. 232,116 73,046 14,773 13,383 31,446 19,647 21,528 23,850 6,781 32,458 12,118 6,239 6,555 8,317 11,808 Great Western of Canada 7;613 These show some very unsatisfactory features, the severity of the weather, combined with the stag nation of trade, having seriously affected the receipts of several of the principal undertakings. On the Great Western there is a decrease of £142; the North Western, of £B7O ; the Brighton, of £555 ; the Great Northern, of £1,848; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £111; and the Edinburgh and Glasgow, of £274. On the South Western there is an increase of only £791 ; the Midland, of £l3O ; the South Eastern, of £ll4 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £2,045 ; the North Eastern, of £1,353 ; the Glasgow and South Western, of £674; the Grand Trunk of Canada, of £972 ; and the Great Wistern of Canada, of £6l. The transactions in the Railway Share Market have been rather limited, and in some instances a further decline has been apparent, owing to the 'unfavourable nature of the traffic returns. North Westerns have declined 55.; Caledonians, Great Northerns, Great Westerns, and North Eastern (Berwicks), 10s. ; South-Easterns, 15s. ; and Bristol and Exeter, and Midlands, £l. Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln improved ss. In the Foreign Market there has been scarcely any business recorded, San Pawlo, however, im proved to 3. The Colonial Lines have been heavy. Grand Trunk of Canada declined os. to ius., Lula asst, Western of Canada, 55.; East Indian Punjaubs, and Cape Town and Dock, have realised previous rates. _ . Joint Stock Bank Shares were neglected, Union of London declined 10s. In the Miscellaneous Market Crystal Palace Stock declined to 301 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 72, and London Dock Shares to 57. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9la i i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l i i India Stock. .. 0 Ditto 6 per Cent . . looa Ditto Debentures, 1858 — Ditto 1859 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,000 Cowls for Account Feb. 7 Xxchequer Bills, £l , ,000, ljd . .. / 3 dis par 4 dis Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. Russian 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 104 i 4 Spanish 3 per Cent .... 48 Ditto Accountl 48i -"' - 49k._ Ditto New Deferred Ditto t'assive Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent — Ditto Certificata, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 92 The Ministerial paper, the Dagbladet, of Copen hagen, publishes the following : " Various political foreign journals have circulated the report that the heir presumptive of Denmark, his Royal Highness Prince Christian, has recently visited Paris. Others even attribute a special mission to the journey of :t the Prince, stating that during his sojourn in Paris he had an audience of the Emperor Napoleon 111., who made him reassuring promises respecting Schleswig. These rumours must arise from some error, of the origin of which we are et( i gnorant, for his Royal Highness Prince Christian of Den- 2 mark has not visited Paris during the last year, so that sti it is impossible he could have had an interview with the at ' Emperor." The same journal announces the departure from et Copenhagen of Baron d'Urgern-Sternberg, for e t nearly 15 years Russian envoy to the Court o" Denmark, who is now appointed to Frankfort. He is succeeded at Copenhagan by Baron Nicolai. On Tuesday morning a sailor belonging to the Royal Mail packet Trent fell from one of the masts on the deck, a height of about 50 feet, and was killed. He has left a wife and family. The late King of Prussia seems to have been, in many respects, a counterpart—though a refined one—of our own James I. He had the same exalted notions of the kingly power,--the same belief in the kingcraft as the first of our St uar t sovere i gns. T rue , th a t i n p l ace o f Scotch dogmatism and p ragma ti c se lf- conce it o f the first James, the chief characteristic of his mind was a kind of metaphy sical dreaminess. This only amounts to saying that he was a German, in place of being a Scotch pedant. No doubt, after all due allowanc e has been made for the different epochs o f history during which the two sovereigns lived, the Ger man was a man of more refined and cultivated intellect than the Scotchman, and of a far purer moral life ; but in the essentials of character they were the same. Had the Ger man been :R ec tor of the University at B onn or Heidelberg, and the Scotchnlan Provost of Aberdeen, the probability is that each would have acquitted himself respectably enough of his duty i n lif e ; but, as kings , they were decided failures. —Once a Week. " Strange to say," observes the Bury and Norwich Post, " Lord Brougham, the eldest living champion of the negro, in declining to attend the Boston Convention' on th e a nn iversary of the death of Capt. Brown, states that the decision, that as soon as a slave sets foot on English ground he is flee,' is erroneously ascribed to English courts under Lord Mansfield, and was really made by the judges in Scot land. The great case of the negro Somerset was brought before Lord Mansfield, assisted by Judges Ashton, Willes, and Ashurst, in 1772, and after three sittings the law was dechired as above stated. The veteran lord's mistake is the more singular, that in the Edinburgh Review for ISoB,with which he was so nearly connected, we find this case referred to, with the remark—' Amon the heroes and sages of Bri tish story we can think of few whom we should feel a greater glow of honest pride in claiming as an ancestor, than the man (Granville Sharp) to whom we owe the power of repeating 'With truth : 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive Plir air, that moment they are free,' " ao. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per 1 c. pref. (issued at £5O stk I Brix. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 20 IDo. do. do. Shares ..... stock Caledon £10,44 per cent stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 65 Cork k Bandon, 51 p. 20 Cornwall. 5 per cent... 61 Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun.. stock E.A mrn.Class A 7 &sp.c. stock Do. do. Class B 6 p.c.... stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c.... stock E. Conn. Ex. sp. c. No. 1 stock Do. do. No. 2 stock Do. New 6 pet ct. stock. stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. stock Do. 5 per cent guar... stock Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares stock j Do. 4p. c ;rue. S. &D. stock , Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. stock I Furness, 5 per cent .... stock Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct. stock 'Po.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm stock 'Do. 44 p. C. do. do. 00 Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm .0 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. )ck Gt Sn & W (Ireland) 4 I •• p. et. pref. stock...- n 10 eitt sr. (tserks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. ct ,ck Co. R edeemable, 41 p.ct. ,ck Do. Redeemable. 4 p. ct. ,ck Do Irredeemable, do ,ek Do. 5 p.et. Redeem. Pref. 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. [0 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. [0 !Do. do. sp. et. pref )ck IDo Birmc.guar. stock !al Do. Chester gua. shares 135 Do. do. do. 0 Do. do. do. ck Lan.&York 6p. c. stock ek Do.Barnsl.st£s3s 10d pc ck Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) ck Lon.& Brig. 5 pc.gu.No t ck Do. 5 p. c. No. 2' ck Do. gua. 6 p. c. I ,ck Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 ck IDo. do. 45 per cen'. 5 'Do. do. 44 p. c. shares wek Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock )ck Do, 6p.c. do. (Vir.E.&C.P ) )ck IDo.4p,o.S.(div.def.til '65) )ck ILon. Chat. and Dover )ck Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. at )ck Lon. &S.W, 7 p. ct. stock )ck Do. 4) per cent . 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anus. of 2s. 8d........ •• • • . • 124 Londondy. & Cole. 1 sh.l 121 Londony. & Ennis. 1 sh.f ock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct.' 6 Do. £6 ock Do. 35 per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent 12 7.larynort & Car., 4p. C 12 Do. 41 per cent ck Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock ck Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. ck Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 6 Do. with option till 1860 Lek Do. Leic, & Hit. pref. st , ck Norflk sp. c. Ex. st 1846, Ick Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 1 ock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.stlB47 )ek North British, 5 p. o. >ck Do. New, gua. 3 p. c.... 101 I Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs 10 ( Do. do. do. )ck Nth.Dev.Pail. &Dck.Co. )ck N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. ock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 17 Do. do. do 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 15 Do. York, • . &S. Purch. 20 , North Staffordshire 10 lillyinney Guaranteed, 8 I Scottish Central, new p 1 )ck Scottish Nofth-Easterr 31 p. c. pref. stosk )ck Do.Aberdeen,gua.sp.c. Dek Do. 7p. a pref. stock 10s, South Devon, Ann. 10s. 10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent .0.6 South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) ' . - lc Do. 4i per cent I Do. Fixed `ip.c. Ist 18 1 south Wales, gua. 4 p.c i ;k Do. a 4 per cent. .dc S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. a glla.l 5 Stock. ,t Dar. Asp. c 5 Do. B 6 ner cent 5 Do. C 6 per cent ck Watrtd Kilkny, 6p. ck W.llid -Oxf Ist Gua st _ ck I Do. 2d do stook Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. ock I Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 18 ock Do. till 1869, Ist is. 12i , Do. do. 2d is. )-dat Bury ge of eady; ) 36 ; eland, d sc. >no KR (L letter to the, aident They fired a nsatiott gh rank, hat even ado the rtes, her is young ntra aide , already Ins, rivet ' the law. ie Scotch of Eng' ties con to settle era ward lietion of ad Laird 'ake earn thunders inn from See that decrees iia youth .en years )ast upon me, he i$ pendents , he ADO SHARE .31ARK.ET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHAitES AND STOCKS. Railways. 50 Belfast and Ballymena 3.14 Bir., Wol , and Str. Val. ock Birk., La., and Ch June 25 Blackburn 25 Blyth and Tyne 10 Bost. Sleaf. and I\lid.Co , ock Bristol and Exeter ock Caledonian 10 • Carmarthen ,t Cardigan, 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cork, Blrock., A-Passage 10 Do A ( A 20 Cornwall . 10 un gets no div. until 6p: peran.l D° ;"hasbeen tol3 5 0 Dublin & Belfast June. 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. dune, ock East Anglian.. 'ock Eastern Counties ock Eastern Union, A stock .ccic Do do B do 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. :oBk 81 80 82 fi 7 99 101 97 97/1 East Suffolk Edi nbur,rh & Glaszow Edin. Perth, & Dundee 0 Forth & Clyde Junction ick Furness ck Glaser. and S. Western 0 Great Nthn. of Scotland Ick Great Northern Ick Do do A stock ick Po do Ti do rok Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Ick Great Western ock Do Str Val fru a. stock 2 Irish South-eastern Ick Lancashire & Yorkshire ck London and Illackwall ,ck Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lek Lond., Chat., and Dover ,ck Lond. & Nth. Western Eck Lond. & sth. Western 25 L'derry & Coleraine 15 L'derry & Ennisfullen 'a Man. Shef. & linooln i 0 Maryport and Carlisle [2a Do do I shares 0 lietropolitan cic Midland . .0. Do new ,ek Do Pirming. & Derby , 0 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do 4 shares 15 Mid Kent I Do, Cray Line ...... Newcastle and Ctrlisle 0 Newry & Armagh, def.. 0 Newry, Warnpt. & Roe. Ick Norfolk.. 50 I N ., hn. Counties Union .. 1 ;k North British N'or.Dev.Rall&Dk.stock, 13 , A stk ; A rocs no d.l until 6pchas bpenpd.B Do B stoclic ......... k Nth. Eastern—Berwick! :5 Do do purchase )ck Do Leeds .............. )ck Do York )ck North London ........ 10 Do new 16.4 North Staffordshire 0 N. and S. W. Junction [2 Not. & Grantham Rail [0 I - zebles Portsmouth 10 Rhymney ock Scottish Central - ock Scot N. E., Aber. stock ock Do Scot. Mid. stock :ock Shropshire Union 10 Sittin ,gbourne & Sheer ock South Devon ock South Eastern ock South Wales . ock S. York. and River Dun 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 Do do sk Taff Vale ........•• •• •• .21: Do Pref. No 1 5 ThamesllavenDk&Rall 50 Ulster l 5 Do .. )ck Vale of Neath 13 Victoria Sta. and Pim )cx Waterford Az Kilkenny' i 0 Waterford Ac Limerick 9 West Cnrnwall 9 West London 9 Do let class ) Do 2d class .. ;k Westllartlepool Harbr and Rail k West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport; sk Do. Hereford, 47 49 42 44 83 85 PREFERENCE SHARES. Paid. C p lo r s lon in . g Bitt)3oin_eess 99j 9 I li 97k ii hare Share Railways. ;Paid Closing Business Price. Done. 101 103 61 20i 21i 6 99 101 [l2 115 [O6 108 [lO 112 108 110 124 126 112 114 90 n 115 117 112 114 104 106 86 88 98 100 98 100 89 91 90 92 LOI 10.3 9i 10 17i 18i 104 11 76 78 20 21 10 10); 15} 151 138 140 L 53 156 t3O 134 69 71 69 91 116 118 50 155 14 14, API 71 73 IP 137 139 101 103 95 97 l 2 114 10 111 i li P 93 95 103 105 i Ip *d p 23 24 123 126 130 133 ni l 11 231 244 10S 104 102 104 91 93 100 102 85 88 274 281 32 334 323 334 45 48 1 124 126 123 125 100 102 12'3 126 116 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid ; Leasing Closing Business . 1 Co.'s. I Price. Done. Redford and BM - eh ley", Buckinghamshire Chester & Holyhead.:, 'Ln . 1V AT.. Ln & N.W 98 100 Do 53 53i Do. 125 127 Do 113 115 Caledonin 102 104 IE.U.SzE C 16 17 Gt. North. 135 137 E.Counts. ictaedonin - Do. do. 54 per cent.! Do. do. 5 per cent., Clydesdale J unct i on.. Colchester, Stour Val., E.Line,olnshire,(r.fi E.Union,Harwich She Do. Woodbridge Gls.Barr.it Nells,Drot. Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlpool.Dek.& Rail. Hull and Selby ...... Do. Shares ....... Do. Shares ....... Lanc.& Carl. v,ua.s p.c.' London & Greenwich! Do. Preference ...... Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. , Lowestoft, gala. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent........ Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk.t Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock Newmarkt..BuryEx guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& F.astn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do. Fixed 5 per cent North Western Prestos and Wyre. Do. Stares A Roystn.llitch., & Shep Slarewsbry&Herefordi Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset i Gt. West! IYk.N.ttßr Md. ID° ,n.dz N.W East. ..' , IPeto ctG Co. Norfolk .. {Do. L NW &II 31 31 97 99 i i P 55 57 lMidland E.Counts all !Do. all ,Do. all , Do. all Midland all L& NWt & L.Yk. j all Do. 100 Gt. North. 100 T.Brassey 1 I all M'Clean.. 100 Gt. West all L. & Brgtn 14 151 135 137 104 106 11 11t 191 93 711 Paid. Closing Price. stock !Commercial ... ... . ... I 100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pret.iiin.' 100 stock East and. West India .. Its.o stock ;London ........• 100 ~. ,t o ck ~ : lt. Katharine... ......... i 100 stock oouthampton ........ 1 100 stock Tictoria ...... ........w 100 ge 101 20 [poi New . !tit.n..PiPC'e 1 i 4 par stocl 6.4.1 stoc) stool 100 100 100 all 100 Si 100 100 all I 100 100 15. 5 6 Share 6 6i 8 8i 16 17 51i 62& 37 39 26 28 86 88 28i 29 116 118 [lli 112 k [OB 109 [32 134 Ala 112} 73} 732 61 64 Ll7i 118 62 63 [l6 117 40 11 100 1004 9ii 95i, 8 10 55 50 34 24d 135 k 134 108 110 7 6d 53 55 65 654 tO4l 1041 p Ip 63i 4411 94 944 101 103 21 94 10 8 * 81 115 117 34 34i 87 89 50 62 6 7 42 43 861 87} 62 64 80 82 6 8 424 434 101 ni p 551 561 2 d 3 p 87 69 p 114 111 6 6a 1121 111 I st! 1174 18 171 18 I 1' 61e_li iiii lil at 100 f 100 sti 56 181 134 34 P 73i 3 65 i i 105 4} 64 94i 15} I 220 S 7 61 I 21 11 I 20 42 3 I 20 I 1 ;110 112 :206 210 61 63 115 420 89 91 1111 Business Done. 1211 57 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1861. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) LITERATURE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hohoyd.) British Artists from liogarth to turner. By Walter Thornbury, author of "Art and Nature, "Life in Spain,' &c. 2 vols. Buret and Blackett. N . RE STREITFIELD, MORTIMORE, AND CO.-TRE GREAT LEATHER CASE. This case was resumed to-day to a still lain audience. The various legal gentlemen appeared br their several clients, and Mr. Brightwell (manager of the London Discount Com pany) was the first witness called. He said that he had been induced to advance a person named Draper a sum of £5,000 upon the representations of one of the bankrupts. Mr. Laurence was then re-called, and his examination was proceeding when the report left. This collection of Mr. Thornbury's delightful artistic sketches will be gladly welcomed by the public. Although we have outlived the ura when it was considered good taste to depreciate the genius of our countrymen, we still know too little about their individual careers. The general reader may be aware that Gainsborough and Wilson were great in landscape, that Lawrence was a famous portrait painter, and Barry coloured the walls of the new Society of Arts; but of the story of their lives, the fluctuations of fame and foitane, the capricious patronage, the professional jealousy which helped or hindered them, of these we know nothing, Mr. Thornbury, with his love an?, knowledge of Art, and his stores of antiquarian information, is espe cially qualified for the task of. supplying this defi ciency, and he has arrang,ed his materials with appropriate artistic effect. He takes ud from the fresh Suffolk fields, where "oar first English painter of English landscape" played truant from school to draw a oluste r of dock-leaves, to the squalid attic in Tottenb am-court-road, where an other landscape painter, poor Wilson, dragged out miserableyears. From the luxurious and "rose-leaf world" abode of the courtly Sir Thomas he trans ports vs to the dingy house where miserly old Nollekens ends his days, raving if two candles are lit 1 ; instead of ono. Beside the records of prosperous lives, wide:spread reputations, and youthful aspirations crowned with the laurels of success, he shows us the reverse of the pic ture—talent mistaking itself for genius, genius obstinately opposing itself to the spirit of its age; respectable mediocrity, welcomed by courtiers and connoisseurs, while ability of the highest order struggles neglected in garrets. All these varying and often quoted scenes of the great melodrama does he give us, not without drawing sometimes a moral for the painter as well as for the critic. "In evitable misery," says our moralist, " must follow when genius despises common sense. If genius will sell shoes when people want hats, genius must starve—and deserves it too for being a sheer fool. if genius will paint monster frescoes when people have no wails for them. and no money to pay for them, genius must, nathless, go wear pepper-and salt at the Union." Yet Mr. Thornbury informs us that these biographical sketches are only to be regarded as the precursors of a more ambitious work, to be styled " A History of English Art from Hogarth, its founder, to Turner its perfecter," in which not alone the trials and triumphs of the individual painter will be described, but the tardy rise and gradual development of the National School of Art. But in waiting for these more elabo rate volumes, the reading public may gather much incidental information from these photo graphs of many and various lives and deaths, as well as from Mr. Thornbury's own critical com mentaries at the conclusion. As the best sample of the work we subjoin a few of his life-like sketches— CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburr.) ALLEGED FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY. Lewis Robert Poole, Thomas Chapman, and Frederick Ventris were indicted for illegally conspiring to conceal a quantity of property from the creditors of the first-named prisoner, who had been declared a bankrupt. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine conducted the prosecution, and the prisoners were defended by Mr. Best, of the Oxford Circuit, Mr. Metcalf, Mr. Poland, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. 0 rri dge. The case will occupy the whole of the day. POLICE IN7 E'LLIGENCE--(77tis Day). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. JRALOUSY AND ASSAULT.-Mr. Charles Cattle, 17, Norfolk-street, Middlesex Hospital, a canvasser, was charged with assaulting Mr. John Porter, merchant, 15, Nassau-street. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, who appeared for the complainant, said the defendant was charged with a violent and unprovoked assault en the complainant, arising out of a feeling of jealousy for a lady the complainant was living with, and as the complainant had before been assaalted he (Mr. Lewis) must ask his worship to order the defendant to find sureties. Mr. Porter said he resided at 15, Nassau. street, with a lady, and knew the defendant, who had assaulted him before. He wan at horn,' tho prey - ions day about five o'clock, ana 'seeing the defendant coming across tne street, ana knowing his violent conduct he locked the door of his apart ment. Shortly after he heard a loud knock at his door, but not opening it, and haiing seized upon a poker for his own defence, it was burst open by the defendant, who then rushed into the room. The defendant then seized the poker, burnt his hand, tore his coat, and struck him. He managed to escape, and gave defendant into custody. He believed the defendant had formed a kind of attachment for a female he (complainant) lived with, and which had aroused his jealousy. Defendant said he met the lady on the previous day, hav ing known her for years, and she asked him to go to her lodgings, as she wanted to see him, as did also Mr. Porter, to have some explanation ; and he went there, and on the door being opened he saw the complainant with the poker or something shining in his hand. He believed the place belonged to the lady, and not to the complainant. Horsemore, C division, said on entering the place he found the defendant sitting by the fire with the poker in his hand. The lady was in court, and frequently interrupted the proceedings. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should order the defendant to find one housekeeper in the sum of £5 to be surety for him. THAMES. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.— Henry Rushbrook, a man of respectable appearance and address, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously embezzling various sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to about £3O, he had received for and on account of his employer, Mr. Ward, a drysalter, at West Bromwich. Mr. Beard, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner entered the service of Mr. Ward, as traveller, in Auguit last, at a salary of three guineas per week, and his duty was to obtain orders for goods, but not to receive any moneys whatever. The prisoner, however, in spite of the agreement, had received cash in payment of goods from many of Mr. Ward's customers, and had appropriated the same to his own use. The prisoner had only been recently taken into custody, and the prosecutor was telegraphed for last night and had just arrived in London. He should not therefore be able to complete the case to-day, and after offering some evidence asked for a remand. Mr. Beard then put in some documentary evidence affecting the pri soner, and called BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ' tare! Railways. .56 --- Atlantic &St Lawrence r I i ßom. Baroda&.Cent Ind 1 ! Gu. 5 per cent.. 18 I Do, Do. B ~ . oi. Buffalo and Lake Huron 101 Do. New 10 Do. Preference ...... )0 f Butfalo,BrantAGodrich 16 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1672 )0 Do. do. July 1, 187:' )0 Do. do. June 1, 1874 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim' O Cape,Eastp.Prov. (Lim. l 10 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 10 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. [7i Demerara.. 9 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c )ck East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. 9 Do. F Shares Ext..... 9 Do. Jubbulpore )0 Do. 4 p c. Debentrs 10 ' Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 9 Geelong & Melbourne Or Geelong Corporation 6 percent. Bonds )ck Grand Trunk of Canada 9 Do. 6 per cent. Pref )0 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr 10 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 10 Do. do. 1867 10 Do. do. 1872 )ck G t.lndiaPenin4r, ua.sp.c O Do. New gua.,s p. c O Gt. South.oflndia(Lim) 0 0 , 1 G topg. opt, , T r N . t a i o l n e t l :: v6o d Canada s . per . cent.h. a . e . s 9 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with to Do. do. '73 tin '6O ,i) 0 o. do. '73 without opt. 0 Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do , ck Madras, guar., 4i p. c Eck Do. do. 5 per cent Lek Do. 4f p. c. Extension O Do. Fourth do :It Melb.Corp. 0 p. c. Bnds. 0 ewßr unswick & Canda Ry.ZzLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0.... :... i o. do. B Capital do. .. o. do. Land do. ...... ude (Limited) ........ ;lc cinde .. I Do. Punjaub ,J Do. Do. oak Do. Indus. St. Flo gig' 0 St.Andrews.t Quebec A .0 Trinidad (Lim.) 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Co.ofUpr.Can 5 -•• .- 190 1 / 8 11 Dlemen!s Lod . 04 )11 ' 11 10 98 99 100 101 Less done Mr. Ward, who, in answer to questions by his solicitor, said he had not received Bs. 6d. of Mr. Partridge, of High street, Poplar ; £1 15s. of Mr. Headsworth, Victoria-dock road, Plaistow, Essex; 16s, of Mr. Messent, Bromley; and £5 of Mr. Johnson, Stratford. The prisoner had not accounted to him in any way for those sums. In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley, the prosecutor said the prison.. bed received his salary of throw emineas per week regularly through Mr. George Barton, of 44, Fore-street, Cripplegate, his town agent and manager. Mr. Barton said the prisoner had not paid to him any of the sums mentioned in Mr. Ward's evidence, and that the receipts for them now produced were in Rushbrook's handwritiag. The witness then mentioned other sums which the prisoner had received at the West-end and had not ac counted for it. The prisoner said he had received the money named by Mr. Beard of three customers, Hinds worth, Messent, and Partridge, and had lost it. The pri soner also said if you do not mention it to Mr. Ward I will make it up. He had no idea of any deficiency until he waited on the customers. He had not yet waited on all the customers. Mr. Dobson, also in the employ of Mr. Ward, said the prisoner had recently received £5 of a customer named Johnson, which ho has not accounted for. Mr. Yardley.—ls that one of the three sums which the prisoner said he had lost. Mr. Barton.—No, it is not, sir. Other cases were about to be gone into, but on Mr. Beard stating that the necessary witnesses to complete them were not in attendance, and had not yet been sum moned, the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow. IBIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Jan. 10.—Wind this day at noon—Calm; there is a dense fog all over the metropolis, with sharp frost. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 9.—Wind S.E.-:-Arrived—Orwell, from London for Melbourne; Polka, from Swansea for Bermuda, leaky. DEAL, Jan. 9.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Stork, from the River, and sailed for St. Michael's; Plover, from the River, and sailed for Barbadoes. PORTLANb, Jan. 9.—Wind E.—Sailed—her Majesty's ship Triton, for Woolwich. _ _ CROOKRAVEN, Jan. B.—Wind S. S.E.—Arrived— Scotsman, from Demerara for Liverpool, with loss of a man, boats, &c. LIVERPOOL,- Jan. 9.—The Crimean, screw steamer, from Alexandria, has 11 feet water in one compartment and 10 in the other. DUNDEE, Jan. 9.--:The Holstein, from Dantzic to Perth, which sailed about the 13th September, has not since been heard of. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. In addition to the specie from England, the Arago, which sailed yesterday for New York, took 1,500,000 f. from Havre. Arrived, Jan 9—Jane and Sarah, from Guernsey ; Southampton, steamer, from Jersey ; Fairy, from Port Lay ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Caroline, from Guernsey; Dream, Anße, and Azorue, from Newport. Sailed—Cyngus, steamer, for Weymouth; Magdalena, steamer, for Rio aheiro ; Havre, steamer, for Havre, (BY BUDMA.EINB AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) DEAL AND GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. No arrivals. WIND AND WEATHER REPORT. Ting DAT A J LN. 10, Kingstown, N.W. ; fine Leeds, S.W. ; frost Leith, N. ; thaw, dull Limerick, W. ; damp Londonderry, S. ; fine Manchester, S.W.; slight Ardrossan, S.E. ; rain Ayr, E.S.E. ; dull Belfast, S. ; wet Birmingham, S.; fine, frost Bradford, S.W. ; frost Brighton, N.E.; very cold Bristol, N.E. ; frost Cambridge, calm ; cloudy Cardiff, N.E. ; fine Chatham, S.S.E., light; fine Cork, N.N.W. ; foggy Deal, N.W. ; fine Derby, S.E. ; fine Doncaster, N.E. ; frost Dublin, W. ; fine Dumfries, S.E. ; dull Dundee, N. 8.; dull Edinburgh, S.E.; thaw Falmouth, calm ; fine Glasgow, E. ; rain Goole, S.W. ; frost Gravesend, S. ; fine Harwich, N.E. ; hard frost Holyhead, S.W., light breeze; clear Inverness, W. ; fine CONTIMINTAL S Brest, S.E. ; fine Brussels, N. ; fine Cherbourg, E.S.E.; fine Copenhagen, S.W. ; fine Dunkirk, B.S.E. ; fog Havre, E. ; fine Leghorn, E.N.E.; rain Loipsic, W. ; fog Lyons, N. ; cloudy snow Middlesborough, S.E. ; frost Milford Haven, S. ; fine Newcastle on Tyne, S. ; snow Newmarket, W. ; fair, sharp frost Norwich, N.W.; foggy, frost Peterborough, S. ; frost Port Glasgow, S.E. ; rain Sheffield, S.E. ; frost Southampton, N.E. ; frost Stockton on Tees, S.E.; frost Waterford, E.N.E. ; foggy West Hartlepool,S. W. ; frost Weymouth, N. ; clear Whitehaven, S.E. ' • snow Wolverhampton, S. ; fine, frosty York, S.E. ; frost CATIONS, JAN. 9. Madrid, E. ; fine Marseilles, N. ; foggy Montpellier, N. ; cloudy Paris, N.E. ; fine St. Petersburg, calm; foggy Strasbourg, N. ; fine Toulon, E.N.E. ; cloudy Turin, S. ; foggy Vienna, E.S.E. ; cloudy The next Cunard steamer from New York will be the Persia, with dates to the 2d of January. Her busi ness accounts, however, will reach only to December 31, New Year's-day being always a general holiday in that city. As a solemn fast was appointed for the 4th, the buii- Mu et the first week of tile year will be limited. LAWRENCE IN SUCCESS. " He, the fashionable painter, who was welcome in any society—who knew everybody and was seen everywhere —who had none of the dust and sordour of the struggling pioneer genius about him, but was to all the equable, coldly-warm, perfect gentleman, who could flirt or gossip with the best, was all this time, when money poured in, and every paper brayed out its foolish praise, net really happy or content. No, not even at Rome, when in the Vatican the gracious successor of St. Peter descended, from his throne, to go to his room, and put on the real Fisherman's ring ;—no, not when, after the peace, two emperors sat to him, and the Autocrat of Russia ' graciously condescended,' as the phrase goes, to shift his picture, and alter the easel pegs ;—no, not even when Metternich in vited him to go and see the Colosseum by moonlight. No ; he knew his weakness as well as the merest youngster who but yesterday cried ready to break his heart over the first picture returned from the Academy, with the fatal It chalked upon the back. He knew that though he could give sunshiny eyes, dewy with tears of joy and laughter— hair falling in golden cascades over shoulders that Venus might have envied ; that he could not build a senatorial head like Titian ; that he could not infuse into his painted eyes the thought and wisdom that Raphael knew how to infuse. What was his ' Mr. Angerstein,' and his oracular Payne Knight,' who did not think much of the Elgin marbles, to Vandyck's Gevartius,' on which Rubens iE4 thought to have painted, and which Vandyck is said to have kept in his paint box, like a precious amulet ? He knew the witchery of blushing flesh, of the glow of health, of sea-blue eyes, of vermillion lips, dewy as geranium leaves after rain ; but he felt that his art was somewhat of the meretricious and flimsy— , that it wanted the solidity and thougfitfulness of the old masters—that, compared with Titian, that Homer of painting, he was a mere clever child, who drew pretty faces. "That dreadful upholstery picture of George IV. by Lawrence shows us how dangerous it is for a man of limited powers to ever attempt the grand historic air. There was nothing grand in the padded, worn out, fat old gentleman; but then, that is no reason the painter should have buried him alive with sofas, curtains, and console tables. "Yet, small as the ideal of Lawrence was, is not the whole world of art contained in the oval of the human face? Are not all, phases of day and night to be looked for in the dark sea of the human eye, where rain and sunshine, and all transitions, from noon to twilight, flit and change ? Are not all the curves of geometry to be found in the changes of the lips ?—all the varieties and gradations of colour in the rose-tints of the cheek ? The alchemist called the human body ' the little world,' believing that it had its own sun and constellations, sea and air—might not the same name be more appropriately given to the human face ? "Let us not, then, call the great portrait painter's ideal a mean one." BARRY IN OBSCURITY. " He is up on his scaffold—Temper, his evil genius, up with him—thinking of the Greeks, and just beginning. his six pictures of the `History of Civilisation.' He means to be three years only at this noble, gratuitous work, but he will really be (if we poor men could read the future) six years, and they will go well-nigh to break his heart. You hear that jingle in his pocket, when he plunges down at his paint-box for fresh burnt sienna 2—that is sixteen shillings —all the money the poor fellow has in the world. Dirty, patched coat, frowzy hair, buckless shoes. No gold-laced hat now, as when he met Nollekens in Rome, or stopped to see the wretched monks daub over, and finally destroy, Leonardo's ' Last Supper.' He has, to tell the truth, a good deal of the grime and cobwed of that miserable lodging of his in Castle-street about him. He never smiles, he is reckless, dogged, and at bay ; he works with clenched teeth —yon would think he hated the coloured creatures he is creat ing ; he is dreadfully in earnest, and snaps and bites at every one; he hates courtly Reynolds, and despises portrait painting; he snubs even Burke, his kind, early patron, because his pride is hurt by feeling the weight of the obli gation. He came here at daylight from his dreary soli tude of broken windows and ventilating roof to this lofty room, where there is pure light and air. He has been up half the night in his old carpenter's shop, arranging his old sketches and dusty printing-presses, amid cobwebs thicir as flannel, engraving at the bead of Lord Chatham, or Job,tor King Lear, or copying the birth of Venus, or some draw ing for Lord Aldborough, or one of the customers that Nollekens gets him. It is these things give him bread and cheese, and literally keep the pot a-boiling. He is. the Quixote of high art (so called because it is always hung high at the Academy) ; there was no grave-gulf so deep but this Irish Curtius was ready to leap into it." " Sometimes, indeed, when our poor genius thinks of his sordid lodgings, with its cobweb hangings, dirt, and sordour—its rusty grate, its rusty grate, its inch deep of dust—he fancies all the world against him, and demons of Protestantism and dilletante-ism grinning from every panel. It was in such a mood—enraged with Reynolds and the face painters, and Gainsborough and the land scape painters, and everything and everybody—he resolved to paint this room, as a proof and an example—he, with sixteen shillings in his pocket—to tho fools and to the sordid!" "Indeed, this soured, injudicious man is a strange being, has lived a strange life, and will die a strange death. He lives alone, in that wretched den in Castle-street, where Burke supped with him, and where Southey visited him ; wrapped in a green baise coat, daubed with dirt and paint, there, surrounded by sketches, and his Pandora ever star ing at him, he sits swearing at ' the man in Leicester fields,' looking like the miser Elwes. He wears a ragged scarecrow wig, with a fringe of his own stiff grey hair peer ing from under it. His house is never cleaned ; he has no servants, this London Timon ; no sheet to sleep on, no cur tain to his bed, but a nailed-up blanket. He will go on till he is taken ill, and lies without food, groaning alone ; till his misanthropic heart softens, and he has to crawl out, wrapped up in a blanket, and lay himself down, with a paper in his hand, asking the next passer-by to put him i n a chair, and have him carried to Mr. Carlisle, the doctors, in Soho-square. And after that fright he will get more rational, and leave off his scarecrow wig, and sometimes creep into, society ; but still he will never leave his den till he be seized with fever at his St. Martin's-lane eating house, and cordials are given him, and he be removed to kind Mr. Bonomi's, because the warring boys had plugged the keyhole of his door with dirt and stones, nthusi as and the den cannot be opened; and then, poor angry e t, he will die in the clean, soothing bed quietly ; and he will lie in state, in this very John-street room, the six pictures loo:king down on him thoughtfully—Dr. Burney, the Sea Nym Tills, Orpheus, and Dr. Johnson, and Drake, and Cap tain Co ck, and all. The Academy hated him, and shame fully stay•ed away from his funeral. George 111., always obtuse anci stubborn, made no sign. The king of one idea liked si_looth pictures, and men who could speak smooth things :" Barry was neither smooth with tongue nor brush." One of the m o lt mournful of the lives here chronicled is thatof Procter, sculptor and painter, whose youth was full of promise, am bition, and success, who won the Academy's gold medal, and was conside red one of the foremost students of his time, and who, nevertheless, died after years of penury and n t ,N,glect, just as brighter days were dawning for the forjetten and friendless artist. The following passage tells a painful tale of bitter disappointment and mortifiez.l. Ambition : THE MAN OF PROMISE. "Perhaps those unlucky sham Druids led Proc!er into trouble; for ten years a crape veil of mist and preradture oblivion shuts him from our sigh t —all we know is, tlitt among other low, material vezcations, suc h as milk sco res and angry, ' nagging ' landladies, he had to dig a hole in the floor of his room, so as to enable it to contain his enormous for no one model of Diomedes thrown to his Horses, that he had fed on Human Flesh.' It was too big for his house—and it proved too big for the houses of the a 9 for bought it; and Procter, unable to pay for hire of a ware house, broke it to pieces with his own hand, his heart aching at each blow. " 0 ye who have dreamed for years over some thought, which with sweat of brain ye have, at last, transformed to book, or statue, or picture, suddenly to see it snipped to pieces by critics' poisoned scissors, or left unheeded by the crowd who passed on to sae 04 last juggler balance his 21i 2 46 101 I I 8 5 5 - - P it ptli 11 12 3 2id 21 2tl 22f 23& 61 7 74 71 19 204 88 394 7i ei 35 36 53 55 31 nd 5t 6 8 i Ai 1 f d, 1; 11 19;20 i 5; 6 91 9fl 21 201 K BANKS 83 85 72 74 20 21 51 13 1i 1 223 23 34 31 71 73 40 41 214 224 16 164 22i 231 1 34 36.1 47 ' 4R 181 281 26 27 all all all all all 1 fio MENT SE'CIJ ;109 114 [lll 113 11l 113 101 102 105 10S i losi 100 93 100 98i 94 97 98i 1105 i 1061 11071 108 qES. 1 1 071 I Paid. Closing Business Price. Done 111 I ITIES. 1001 1 100 100 100 100 MI 2.11.101 t 14.6 7.4.0 feathers on his nese, imagine, as no others can, the agony of this destruction 1 "Ten years have passed since the shining gold medal was placed in the swarthy brown hand of Procter ; and that useful body, the Royal Academy, have left their man of promise to starve in obscurity—to break up tho work of his lone midnights in the paroxysm of despair." Meanwhile the period arrives when a student is to be sent to Rome by the Academy. Remembering the promising winner of the gold medal, they re solve to send Procter, and commission Mr. West to search him out from the dingy and hopeless locali ties, where the victims of disappointed ambition, and inexorable poverty crouch from the sight of the gayer and happier world. The rest of the story we leave our author to tell in his own words : "At the time that Mr. West, with kind but yet tardy zeal, is searching for the entombed genius, singularly enough, Fortune, also rather tardy, has sent another friend, Mr. Riding, a painter and picture-dealer, formerly an intimate friend of Procter's, is also looking for him, and finds him. The clouds break for Procter; the blue shows. Riding observes his friend's disturbed and restless manner; he sees that he is entangled in a Nessus net of debts, and that his one wish is to become free. Riding put forth all his strength to help him. He goes privately to a man who holds a note against Procter for money lent. It is a weapon that may be at any moment used against the man of promise. He goes and represents his poor friend's dis tress. He appeals to ,tbe lender, and touches his heart. Ho so wins him over that the note is thrown on the fire, and flies a red tinder up the chimney, the mischievous devil that lurked in it being exorcised by that process. It is late at night when the devil is dismissed ; and early next morn ing Riding will rise and tell Procter. Happy at his suc cess, Riding goes h ome t o s le e p li g htly, as good men can "In the meantime, Mr. 'West has dug up Procter, and been to his lodgings in Maiden-lane. Hefindshim cower ing over a heap of clay, in the obscure lodging, in a deplor ably reduced state—weak, h e l p l ess, an d d espo nding The well-dressed, comfortable in an l oo k s a t hi m w ith eyes of pity, relieves him, invites him to dinner, offers him letters of introduction to Roman friends, and determines to send him as tutor to his own (West's) son to Rome. He leaves him, brushing his cocked hat, and blandly expressing hi s regret at Procter's genius having been so long neglected. He shakes him by the hand, and wishes him ' good night. "The next morning dawns hepeful and bright, and with it, to the humble door opposite the Cider Cellar in Maiden lane, comes Riding. He pushes back the dirty, careless drudge, who knows nothing about Mr. Procter—he is up stairs in a moment ; he thrusts open the bed-room door— no answer ; he calls anxiously ; he shouts his gcod tid ings—no response; he runs to the bed, draws down the tawdry, tuoked-in curtains, pulls back the sheet—there is the great black fell of hair on the pillow, but the face pale, and the jaw sunk. The man of promise has died before he became a man of performance." At the conclusion of the first volume we have a series of sketches in dramatic form not strictly be longing to the work. They are styled" Last Hours of the Painters," and are not restricted to the death beds of our insular celebrities. Brauwer, the Edgar Poe of another Art, is there, dying in the Antwerp hospital ; Fra Angelico, the saintly, closing his blameless life in the chapel of the Vati can ; Beaujean, the follower of Watteau, rashly ending his own existence in the stormy days of the Reign of Terror ; and the fervid young Italian, whose graceful pencil loved to perpetuate the evanescent glory of the flowers, perishing, also self-slain, in angry impatience of his fate. At the end of the work we have several chapters of criti cism on the various Schools of Art—Grecian, Moorish, Gothic. A knowledge of the outward forms of art, as well as an appreciation of its subtle inner spirit is apparent, however much the reader may be disposed to differ from occasional theories. In one page, speaking of the new school of painting which has lately become so famous, the writer expresses a truth that the votaries of every Art would do well to bear in mind, if they would touch the hearts and sway the thoughts of their fellow-men. " They will learn," he says, " when they once get out of the hot air of clique flattery, that the great public have no sym pathy now for knights in gilded tinsel, in mystic ladies of Shalotte, in nuns digging graves, or in melancholy princesses sitting at twilight windows with golden cushions on their laps ; they will find that all that antiquarian frippery suits only the drawing-room and student race, not the wide corduroy world. The large world want the old heart-ache painted, mothers parting from children, death-beds, lovers joining hands, and all the old humours and passions of the abstract man. A great picture should translate into every language, and require no book comment to eke out its meaning." In his chapter on the English caricaturists he pays a genial and well-merited tribute to him whom he styles in affectionate admiration—King Cruikshank —certainly a worthier claimant of the regal dignity than many another King George. But what does Mr. Thornbury mean by his allusion to the author of " The Tower of London ?" " Peace to his manes," he says, "he is forgotten, so after a fitful fever he sleeps well." Whether this is meant in the usual acceptation of the term, or in a literary sense it is equally untrue, and the mis take incomprehensible. But notwithstanding this slip of the pen the author has evidently bestowed far more care on these volumes than on most of his later works. He often, it is true, entangles himself and the reader in interminable sentences, and in trying to be too smart and effective in his manner, is sometimes only stilted and strained, But whatever its occasional deficiencies, the , work is graphic in design and brilliant in style, and can scarcely fail to find favour with the lovers of British literature as well as of British art. Studies from Life. One vol. By the Author of " John Halifax," &c. Hurst and Blackett. This is a collection of different essays and erticies, by the gifted authoress of so many delightful works. They are for the most part written with the greatest skill and care, and cannot but prove attractive to the general reader. There is a good deal of variety in the style of these papers, and therefore they can suit different tastes. An amus ing sketch is that of "Going out to Play." It is always interesing to dwell upon the sports and pastimes of childhood. This sketch informs the reader of the desire that dwelt in the minds of a set of children to go out and play by moonlight. In order to accomplish this, they went to bed in their clothes, but were unhappily prevented from accomplishing their design. " Alas ! we were igno miniously discovered, and made to undress and go to bed properly, like good children ; and though, since then, we have, each and all of us, kept many a night-watch, sleeping roofless under foreign stars, or seeing the English dawn break mourn fully from sick-room windows, never, never have we been among the number of those fortunate little boys and girls, who came out to play when the moon did ' shine as bright as day." " Silence for a Generation" contains some striking truths on the folly of overwriting , and th e evil :ffects that ensue therefrom. It begins by quoting a sentence of Dr. Johnson's :—" Sir," said he, " the one thing wanted in the world is silence. I wish all the talkers had their tongues cut out, and all the writers had their pens, ink, and paper, tools and manuscripts, thrown into the Thames, and there were silence for a generation." It would be well for themselves and for others if the authors of the present day, who will write to a degree painful to their own feelings and prejudicial to their fame would deeply ponder on these words of advice. " Providence allows to every intellect only a certain amount of develop ment, limited by certain laws, spiritual and physical, known or unknown, yet not one which can be broken with impunity. The brain is like a rich quarry, you may work it out in a year, and you may, with care and diligence, make it last a lifetime,. but you cannot get out of it more than is in it ; and work as you will you must get to the end of it some day. So does our author, but still he writes on." Further on, there is an eloquent passage de scriptive of the rare gifts of the author's genius, and the supremacy he holds over the feelings and passions of his fellowmen, " whether .the sound be small or loud, clear or harsh, he is the living voice of the world. Then in God's name let him dare not ever to open his mouth unless he has something to say." " Want something to -Read," furnishes hints as to the propriety of children having a variety of entertaining books to instruct them in the path of usefulness, and to afford them that self taught information which the learning by rote of schools and the precepts of teachers can never im part. The writer gives an amusing account of the early days at home, and tells of their dawn of literature. In that time children's books were not as they are now, and in recent days some childisr sketches have been found coarsely printe!_yxforaapoer_ covers with " cuts" instead of " platesc.: dinary cuts some of them were, Jao, sitting at it was half table with the ugliest of giants, wh but bless you feared, might " frighten" us 'thin of we were never frightened at any h g .b _ that sort. We had no nursemaid to tell , us orri le tales of Man,' —all we ever heard " Bogie" or the " Black. or learned for the early years of our lives came direct from the fountain-head, the fountain of all tenderness, and s afety, and loving kindness, whose incessant g uardianship made our poverty m ore blessed than if we had been heirs to — "All the wealth that fills the breeze', When Coromandel's ships return from Indian seas." “Literary Ghouls" is another suggestive article Which will repay perusal. It relates to a high and ho,ir theme, and calls attention to a solemn strain of thmight. Some just strictures are passed on the publicity that has of late been given to the private doings of ceiebrities. " Suppose," it says, " that we had been aware that upon us living a greedy biographer would s eize, rake up all our doings,un doings, and misdoings in various incorrect forms, in which we have no power to set right, every careless and foolish word we said, with an apparent motive for saying it, we should have doubted our nearest and &area l and retired in disgust from the . . impertinent world, to leave our bores mouldering unmolested in some Aftican desert or American cave; or we should have carefully arranged our whole life with a view to posthumous publiehtion. We should never have made a it mark without considering how it would look in Smithiana." Further on it is truly and powerfully urged how end in what manner the record of the lives of earth's immortal ones should be treated ; how those on whom falls the trust of biographer should act so as to make manifest all that should be known, and be silent on what need not he spoken of. " Yet understand us ; we ghosts do not wish to lay an embargo on all biographers, thereby annihiliating the natural wish of the human heart to be remembered after death, and causing the worth and beauty of good men's histories to he indeed " interred with their bones.' Not so—every thing great and noble, virtuous, and heroic in any author's life—in the life of any man or woman—by ail means after a decent time has elapsed let it Le faithfully related for the comfort, instruction, and example of later generations. The world has a right to hear and exact such chronicles of its gene rations gone by. But let us be chronicled not as authors, because we have written a book or so worth reading, but because we have lived a life worth remembering ; the story of w hi c h wi ll h ave a beneficial influence on lives yet to come. If any incense poured upon, or,.sweet odours arising from our mortal dust, can reach and delight us in our immortality it must be thus to know that neither our doings nor our sufferings have been in vain, and for all concerning us that was purely personal in noways differing from the rest of our species, which can neither " point a moral " nor " adorn a tale," but only minister to an idle and purient curiosity, in charity's name, let it be buried with us. The last essay is on the subject of " Lost," and it is an appropriate conclusion to a work of this sort. It states that "Itis a grave reflection what a number of people there must be in the world who are not figuratively or poetically but literally ' lost,' who by some means or other, accident, inten tion, carelessness, misfortune, or crime, have step ped out of the home circle, or the wider round of friendship and acquaintanceship, and never reap peared more; whose place has gradually been filled up, whose very memory has almost been forgotten, and against whose name in the family Bible stands neither th e b r i e f momentous annotat i on " married," nor the still briefer and often much safer and happier inscription, ' Died'— nothing save the ominous pathetic blank, which only the unveiled secrets of the last day will ever fill up." The fondest and best of mothers may live to miss from her Christmas table some one child whom she knows, and knows that all her other children know, is more welcome in absence than in presence, whom to have laid sinless in a baby's coffin and buried years ago would have been es nothing—nothing. Yet all these things must be, and we must bear them, that in the mysterious working of evil with good we may come out purified as with fire. The comfort is that in its total account of gains and losses, every honest and tender soul will find out sooner or later that the irreme diable catalogue of the latter is, we repeat, far lighter than it first seems. For, who are the lost ? Not the dead, who " rest from their labours," and with whom to die is often to be for ever beloved. Not the far away, keeping and kept in fond -remembrance, are often nearer than those who sit at hearth and board beside us, not even the temporarily estranged, for faith and patience will often bring them back again and teach us— " How like a new gift is old love restored ; How seems it richer though the very same." Never need those fear to be either lost or losers who in the words of our English Prayer book, can pray, and pray together, that " amidst all the chances and changes of this mortal life our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be • found." When, whatever may be the tongue of men or of angels, " that we shall have learned to speak with then, we may be quite sure that there shall be in it no such word as lost." There is much to attract notice in this interesting little volume, and it can be truly and earnestly recom mended to those who at all care to dwell on the thoughtful and refined subjects of literature. Small and brief as some of these sketches appear, they are not really so, for they contain the germs of deep feeling, and reveal the depths of truth, while they exemplify the lessons of wisdom that lead through Nature up to Nature's God. "Studies from Life" is a correct title to this work, and the studies are pleasing as well as profitable, ornamen tal in execution while useful in design ; and while they tell of the most important things here, they are not unmindful of those which appertain to the life that is to come. Many readers will rejoice to renew their acquaintance with one who has given to our literature some of the most sttecessful novels of the day as regards their peculiar style, and this volume is a welcome gift at Christmas to her numerous admirers. MIS DAY'S MARRETS. CORN EXCIIANGE. hit EMIL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 56s 3d ; barley, 40s 3d ; oats, 228 6d ; rye, 398 10d ; beans, 43s 4d ; and peas, 42s Od. THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 63s 7d ; barley, 39s 4d ; oats, 22s 4d ; rye, 35s 8d ; beans, 45s Od ; peas, 44s 6d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 68,130; barley, 82,384 ; oats, 13,397 ; rye, 27; beans, 2,305 ; peas, 1321 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. There was a fair average supply of beasts on offer in to day's market, and all breeds moved off steadily at fully Monday's currency. We were favourably-well supplied with sheep, for which the inquiry ruled very inactive. Prime Downs and half breeds sold at full prices; but the value of long-woolled sheep had .a drooping tendency. The few calves in the market were taken off steadily, at full quotations. Pigs realised previons rates; but mulch cows were very dull. Per Sibs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d.' 8. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool do. 5 0 5 6 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Pine. S'thdown do .5 8 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large crse. calves 4 4 4 10 Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 5 0 5 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 0 ( Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 4 24 8) Small porkers Lambs, Os Od to Oa Od. Suckling calves, 18s to 23s ; and quarter .old store pigs, 238 to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts l,OlO Sheep and lambs 3,140 Calves 130 Pigs FOREIGN SUPPLY Beasts Sheep Calves I Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—SuppIies of meat are only moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d per 81bs. by the carcase. '; SOUTHALL, Jan. 9.—There was a moderate supply of stock on offer to-day, and the trade was inactive, at barely last week's rates :—Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 10d, mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ' • lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od; pork, 4 s Od to 5s Od per 81bs to sink the offal. !!Rox - ronn, Jan. 9.—A slow sale for stock, as follows : —Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ' • utton, 3s 10d to 6s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 2d to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bA ; suckling calves, 14s to 18s; quarter old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and mil& cows, Os to £lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Moadow hay, £2 10s to £slss Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 18s ; and straw, £1 163 to £2 5s per load. A short supply. CUMBERLAND,- MeadOW hay, ,S 2 12s to £5 158 ; clover, £3 10s to £5 18s Od ; and s t ra w, £1 183 to £2 5s per load. Trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow bay, £2 103 to £ 5 15s Od ; clove!, £3 10s to £6 Os Od; ard straw, £1 16s to £2 5a per had. Trade steady. TETE NEW PtEEIT AT ST. PAIJL'S.—The new marble pulpit, a memorial to the late Captain Fitzgerald, who served in India, by his fellow-officers, has been placed in it s position for the Special Evening Services, which wil commence on the 27th inst. The pulpit, which is composed of costly marble of various descriptions, is hexagonal in plan, and rests on a slab of Cork marble, upon which is a sub .base of white-veined Carrara. Upon this sub-basement at its outer edge, rise:l2 columns, which, with their bases and capitals, are sft. 71in. in height, their bases being of the Attic section, and formed of Plymouth black marble. The capitals are of modified Corinthian design. The shafts of the columns are of divers marbles—those at the extreme angles of the hexagonal plan, six in number, being of Cork marble, two of Mona green (from North Vales), two of Plymouth gray, and two of verde antique. CORONERS' SALARTES.—At the Devon Quarter Session held last week a committee of magistrates, ap pointed for the purpose, recommended that salaries, on the basis of five years' average of fees, travelling expenses, and allowances, in accordance with the recent Act, with 10 per cent, in addition, on account of the anticipated increase in the number of inquests, be paid to the county coroners. Several of the coroners attended and protested against the small amount of remuneration which this would give them. They complained that they had been receiving but 9d. per mile for travelling expenses, whereas they could not travel for less than ls. per mile, and that the fees for holding inquests when they were adjourned were not sufficient in such large districts as they had allotted to them. One of the coroners, Mr. Cox, said the salary proposed to be paid to him would only be at the rate of ss. Bd. per day, and that he should be reluctantly compelled to appeal to the Secretary of State. Ultimately the subject was refer back to the conoaittee for reconsideration. Shia coin Ltd ;om- )eell the 3yed bteea Log. of $ ting cible bean 103/ 100 'lOO 100 ,'t.13.4. 100 100 100 100 100 118 118 143 118 105 43 26f f 8 71 C