The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market still presents a quiet and "try easy appearance, the best bills being negotiated as low as 3: per cent. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £389,600, and the exports £608,500. The traffic receipts on the Bengal division of the East Indian Railway for the week ending the 18th January last, on 604 miles, represent a total amount ing to £13.665 95., and for the corresponding week in the previous year, upon 3202 miles, they brought £7,534 7s. It will thus be observed that while there has been no great increase or decrease in the revenue, the business may be regarded as good, al though of a rather stationary character. The total sum received by the North West Provinces Division, on 2792 miles, for the same date as above, was £6,315 2s. id., while in the corresponding week of last Sear, on 2432 miles, it represented £3,851 3s. 7d., showing also a steadier, but not progressive business. The following very interesting calculations are extracted from Messrs. Joseph Travers and Son's circular : IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION OF COCOA, COFFEE, SUGAR, AND TEN IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.—From the foil wing accounts it will b 3 seen that, with the excep tion of tea, the importations of thesa articles were larger than in the corresponding month of last year, and that in the consumption of cocoa and sugar there was an increase, while in that of coffee and tea there was a diminution• COCOA. Imports. Consumption. lbs. lbs. Feb 1861 „ 1862 1,101,305 341,905 „ 1863 254,148 397,164 COFFEE. Feb. 1861 „ 1862 5,580,256 2,884,982 „ 1863 3,803,757 2,602,965 SUGAR. Feb. 1861 „ 1862 580,061 730,443 „ 1863 TEA, Feb. 1861 12,175,188 5,828,620 „ 1862 7,871,694 5,831,665 „ 1863 16,129,280 5,223,881 The results presented by the above tables are as follows : Of cocoa the importation during the month of February was 77 per cent. less than the quantity imported in Feb ruary, 1862, and 124 per cent, more than that in February, 1861; while the consumption was 16 per cent. more than in 1862, and 40 per cent. more than in 1861. Of coffee the importation was 32 per cent, less than in February, 1862, and 9 per cent. less than in 1861; while the consumption was 10 per cent, less than in either of the two preceding years. Of sugar the importation was 3 per cent, less than in Fetruary, 1862, and 10 per cent, less than in 1861; while the consumption was 6 per cent, more than in 1862, and 15 per cent, more than in 1861. Of tea the importation was 115 per cent.more than in February, 1862, and 39 per cent, more than in 1861; while the consumption was 10 per cent, less than either of the preceding years. The twenty-i;inth annual general meeting of the Agra and United Service Bank has b3en held to-day. The report, which was adopted, stated that the audited accounts for the year ended 31st December last, exhibit a surplus of £173,815 17s. sd. The directors regret to say that a very serious loss has been sustained by the opium frauds at Hong Kong, the whole of which they have deemed it their duty to write off to debit of the reserve fund, according to the discret; on vested in them under the deed of settle ment. Out of the above sum of £173,815 17s. 6d., the directors have paid the usual dividend and bonus, amounting' to £120,000, and have transferred the balance, £53,815 17s. 5d., to credit of the reserve fund, which now stands at £192,658 17s. Bd. Since the last annual meeting, the directors have opened a branch of the bank at Sydney, under the management of Mr. Alexander Camp. bell, the progress of which has been satis factory. The house occupied by the Bank in Cal cutta has long been found insufficient tor the ex tended business at that Presidency ; and the direc tors are glad to report that a most eligitle site has been secured, on which suitable premises will be immediately erected. The directors have purchased the freehold of the premises in Cannon•-street, on favourable terms. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were C9f. 95c.—Rather firm. The market for the English Funds has continued rather heavy, Consols having closed at 921 1 for money, and at 921 1 for the account. Business has been exceedingly dull, owing to a disinclination on the part of speculators to extend operations. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are marked 911; Indian Stocks have remained steady, and Exchequer Bills closed at 3s. discount to par. The transactions in the Foreign Market have bean rather active, but no important change has taken place. Greek Bonds are 271 28i, and the Coupons, 13 1 ; Mexican, 321; PE ruvian New Loan is steady at 871; Portuguese ditto, 951 ; Spanish Passive are 291 1; and the Certificates, 101 1 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 87 88 ex div. ; ditto, 1858, 671 68 ; ditto, 1862, 691 4 ; and the Con solides, 471 4. The Confederate Loan is 11 2 pm. Business in the Railway Share Market has been dull, and several of the principal lines have slightly declined in value. Great Northern A Stock has receded £1; Great Easterns and South Easterns, ss. ; and Great Westerns and Midlands, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings 'con tinued dull, without any material alteration in values. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in one or two instances are a shade firmer. London and County improved ss. ; Union of Australia, Os. BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Fink Stock 235 3 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., IbBo., I)itto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent. ............... 1141 DBonds £21.1)00 Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, May 7 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 3 Ms par Ditto £5OO ............ 3 dis par Ditto Small 3 dis par FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Egyptian 7 pet Cent Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 2Bh 71 Ditto Coupons l3 4 13 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account nsw Granada l5 Ditto 2 per Cent 33 21 Ditto Def erre d 7i 8 Ditto Land W arrants (Hectares) ..... .1862......... Ditto Account.. _ Ditto . Portuguese 3 per C en t ., 18 ...... .............53 87.1 Ditto Account.. ........ . ........ . 48 Ditto 1862 4B7a Rnesian 5 per Cent., 1822, Le st ....... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859. 6Ol Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account 53 291 8i 91, 81 Ditto Passive • Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 - Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 iato Account 671 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account .. 7ll Cul:lsolaTWO O'CLOCK. , Money Att o ,A, 2 cco uo t 9ll _ Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day. (It,CrTER'S TELEGRAM.) Market dull. No change. Sales, Import, 1,569. 5,000 bales. At the quarterly meetin g of the Council of the llalifax Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, it was de cided not to entertain a report from the New York Cham ber of Commerce, touching the building in this country or War ships for the Confederates, The classes of the College de France for the second half-year of 1863 will counnence on Monday neat, 6.4.0 12.10 Shan .100 stk 1 20i 10 100 1 too 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stock 20 20 100 100 stock stock stock 20 stock 50 100 stock st Bt stock t. (_.an.Oov. 6 p.c.Ja 1877-Si Do. 6 p. c. Feb..:; Auk- - Do. fl p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. I Do. 5 Inscribed stocl, Cape G. Hope, 8 p c,187: Do.Ap &Oct 188(' ; Do. 1891 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p Mau•ltius 5 per cent Natal G,,v. 6 per cant ,N.ll.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&Jul) ; Do. 6p. c.Ap. & N.S.W.Gov.Sp Do. 5 p. c.,18 r i to I",t - Do. d0.,1888 drupwdr - New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterlintx, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c 'S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up - Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja..&Jul) Do. to cs 0.0. kb-AM-Mt. 1051 1061 It 4 ,16 104 106 51 96i 94 06 110 112 111 113 111 113 tt3 115 96} i 5i 6} 111 112 111 112 It 51 lo(11 100 100 100 100 100 101 102 101 102 101 IC2 110 112 1064 1074 L:1 113 111 113 108 110 1081 1094 1051 101 i 1081 9 BRITISH MINES. 2 ;Cambrian Consol. Golds 1 7 , 7 id Amalgamated ' -- 20 22 - Devon G. Con s . cravist 1 515 625 I East Bassett allomin). 30 85} 875 89 I 1- I East Clogau G o ld Ltd . l ss. *d 51) lEast Caradon 1 'East earn Brea .... ... •• • i 3.4•0 42 431 LWI Russel (Tavistk.; 8.1.6 4 44 i Gam. &SLAubyn(Gwen.) tal 14 16 (3 reat South Tolgus 17s 5 5 i '. Wheal Voralelston 40 64 7 !Grenville. ilerod's-Foot ....... ;lingston Downs 4. , 7.0 2 25 Lady Bertha ..... t . 2.0 6 t 1 %largaret (any Ewan; 4 35 37 —jllarke Valley.. 4 'rlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 24 1 4 d New Setun lOl 130 140 North Downs 2 4l 1 2 0 3 '1 Basset (Mogan 1.17. c 4 4} north Wheal Crotty iar Consols (1!-A. Blazey 45 ta 20 !!'rovidence(Uny Lelnt., 10.6.; 12 14 ISouthCaradon(St.Cleer 15 1 300 400 —3. Carn Brea (Illogan) 1 5.15.0 2/ 3; Wheal Fran. (Illovin 118.1 .9 875 925 iStray Park 5 famar Silv.& Lead Min 45 1 10 !fin Croit g 21 22 —i West Basset (Illogan) l5 12 13 —W Oaradon (Liskeard ! 5 32 34 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan'; I (75 725 Viheal Buller( Redruti)l 5 58 62 Wheal Kitty (U.LelanL i 2.0.6 - WhealLud ott - wheal MaryAnn(Men )j 8 155 165 - Wheal Seton ' 585 245 255 I.v heal Treiawney (Lis ); 7 17 18 IWheal Union 3.17 , 5 55 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern , E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 111 104 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 111 Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116 Great orthern, 44 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 103 Great WeAern, 4 per cent. irred., 834 London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 100 Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33 West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 1274 7 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 5 per cent. pf., 1041 Ditto, 4k per cent., 054 London, Chatham, &0., iletrop. Ext.,r, 8 per cent,, 81 LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 051 5 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 211 Dutch Rhenish, 174 Sambre and Meuse, 11-1 FGN Don Pedro, Nor h DeIORE I Re, MINES. / Linares, 7.1 y N. Rhine Copper of South Australia (lira.), I - Port Philip, 11 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Agra and United Service (), 100 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 24/ Bank of Egypt, 30/ Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 25/ 51} City, 94/ English and Irish (lim.), 62 London andd Eng., Sm., and Australian Chartered. 21; llindustan, China, and Japan aim.), 13} London chartered Bank of Australia, 28/ Oriental p S outh Y .Airican, 271 / London and Count 44 lat:lk Corporation, 551 0} Aletrop. a S e n i n io d n e a . 1 1 : 1 . 37 a . Ja i:l d a n D k e 1 ( i h i anis, 52 Union Of London, 34} Berlin Water w o D r iIS CELLANEOUS . Bombay Gas, limitkedB4 Italian Irrigation (C anal `' National Discount comp an a y vr). 5} Oriental Inland Steam (lini.,'6'fa•), Quebrada Land, Rail, ai m mi xii t g ( lltn.), I/ 2/ h ewhat novel bench eia Admiralty PICKING UP STRAY SHOTZAofsotcn case of prosecution on the part was disposed of at the Portsmouth watermen was charged with picking up the sperti:veek. A the Excellent, used in gunnery exercise: The shots, of pears, are now marked with the broad arrow, in orderittaP. they may be identified, and eight watermen are licensed to pick them up and restore them. The prisoner was not s t ticetistd loan, and hence he was prosecuted for having suc h shot in his possession. It was stated that a similar case had not been brought before the magistrate for 20 years. It was, however, proved that the Admiralty had been in the habit of purchasing such shots from other than licensed persons, who had restored them ; and the defence was that the receivers were as bad as the thieves. The magistrates, taking this view of the case, dismissed the prisoner, observing that if the Government desire to prosecute in such cases they should give notice of their intention. It is a good illustration of the freedom of our laws when the will of the Government is put aside by local magistrates.—West §lisscx Gegftk, _ THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. We have received the following additional article to the treaty signed at Washington, April '7, 1862, between her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America for the suppression of the African slave trade. Signed at Washington, February 17, 1863. Ratifications exchanged at London, April 1, 1863 : - - - Whereas by the First Article of the Treaty between her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, for the suppression of the African slave trade, signed at Washing ton on the 7th of April, 1862, it was stipulated and agreed that those ships of the respective navies of the two High Contracting Parties which shall be provided with special instructions for that pur pose, as thereinafter mentioned, may visit such mer chant vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the African slave trade, or of having been fitted out for that purpose, or of having, during the voyage on which they are met by the said cruisers, been engaged in the African slave trade contrary to the provisions of the treaty ; and that such cruisers may detain and send or carry away such vessels in order that they might be brought to trial in the manner thereinafter agreed upon : and whereas'it was by the said article further stipulated and agreed, that the reciprocal right of search and detention should be exercised only within the distance of two hun dred miles from the Coast of Africa, and to the southward of the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, and within thirty leagues from the coast of the Island of Cuba ; And whereas the two high contracting parties are desirous of rendering the said treaty still more efficacious for its purpose ;—the plenipotentiaries who signed the said treaty have, in virtue of their full powers, agreed that the reciprocal right of visit and detention, as defined in the article aforesaid, may be exercised also within 30 leagues of the Island of Madagas car, within 30 leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within 30 leagues of the Island of San Domingo. The present additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the treaty concluded between the two high contracting parties on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same dura tion as that treaty. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms. Done at Washington, the 17th day of Febraary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three. (L.S.) LYONS. (L.S.) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Hon. Elizabeth Dowager Baroness Stafford was proved in the London Court on the 24th ult., by the executors appointed for England—namely, Sir Wm. Lawson, Bart., and his sons, John Lawson and Thomas Paulinus Lawson, Esqs.; the personal property in this country being sworn under £40,000. Her ladyship was the daughter of the late Richard Caton, Esq., of Maryland, U.S., and married, in 1836 (as second wife), the late Lord Stafford, who died in 1851. She possessed considerable estates, mines, oil wells, &c , in America. The executor appointed for America is Basil R. Spalding, Lg., of Baltimore. Her ladyship died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea in Octo ber, 1862, having executed her will in 1860 and a codicil in June, 1862. Her lands, estates, and pro perty in America► she leaves to her two sisters, the Dowager Duchess of Leeds and Mrs. M'Tavish, who are also the residuary legatees of her general estate. This property is to be held by them for their re spective lives, and after their decease one half will go to the relatives of Mrs. M'Tavish, and the other portion to be applied to various Roman Catholic institutions in England. There are numerous legacies to relatives and friends, and to several poor persons in this country and in America who have been in her ladyship's service, or connected with her establishment. The will of W. Hobson, Esq., of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, was proved in London on the 25th ult., under £300,000 personalty, the executors and trustees being John Day, Esq., his son-in-law, and Francis Hobson Appach, Esq., his nephew, the other executor appointed (John Irving Glen nie, Esq., his son-in-law), having died before Mr. Hob son, the testator, who died on the Ist March last, having executed his will in 1856, and two codicils in 1857 and 1862. He has devised all his free hold property to his son, Robert Hobson, Esq., to whom he leaves his plate, beveathing to each of his sons and daughters specific bequests from 11;s valuable collection of art. The residue of his property is to be divided equally between his two sons and three daughters. There are several legacies to the testator's personal friends. The will of IN illiam Stammers, Esq., of Nay land, Suffolk, was proved in London under £140,000 personalty. There are six executors and trustees appointed, namely, Henry Daniell, the nephew, and James Frederick Blyth, Esq.; these two are the acting executors. The others are William Daniell, a nephew, Thomas Blyth, Her bert Alger, and Frederick Alger, Esqrs. The testator died in February last, having executed his will in December, 1860. He bequeaths to his nephews Henry and William Daniell each a legacy of £lO,OOO. Liberal legacies are also left to his sister, and to other of his nephews, and to nieces, as well as to relatives and personal friends. The testator directs that after the payment of the follow ing bequests—viz., £lOO to the Lees and Colches ter Hospital, £175 to his housekeeper, and legacies to other of his servants, and a sum of £3OO, the interest of which is to be applied for the benefit of the minister of the Dissenting congregation at Nay land—the residue of his property, real and personal, shall be divided amongst the legatees of his will in proportion to the amount of their respective legacy. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh3. Share; Railways. ',Caledonian 'Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do B - - Do C Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.k.Jo Bristol and Exeter ID° A A veth no div Do. B Stillapc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. 'Dun.,Perth,ciz,Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. iGreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern... . Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an t W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Yal Yorkshire stock Lancas hue & London and Blackwaii Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shires • Metropolitan Midland Do New ... _ Do Birming. & Derby Mid. (It. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, (I.N. E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New ,North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction ] Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union :South Devon ;South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. lUlster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.ttK , West Midland -Oxiordl Do Newport' Do Hereford, Paid, Closing Business Price. done. BRITISH P a.ailwr.ve tlantic & St Lawrenck Rom.,Barodat.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New Do. E. Shares.. ... Buffalo and Lane Huron Do. Preference Bufralo,Brant,tGodrich p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 oc h do. Jun,. 1, 18 - i , lcutta./tS.Eastn. ; i'apeTown & Dock Seri] Eastn. Bengal g - u. sp. h;ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... H do. .. Grand Trunk of Cannel: Do. let Pref. Bonds.. Do. co. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. Do. do d fer , ed...... Do. 3d P ef. stock ... Do. do. dAerr, d...... Do. 4th Pref. a o k... Do. do. deferred...... Gt. ItichaPenin.gua.sp.e Do. New gua. 5 Do. January, 1852 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 1/ p. c. Extensim Dc. 4, DO: Fifth Extension. Nlelb.Corp. ri p. o. Bad, Stelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. norm. Bds. Newßrunswick ac Cands Class A an I B. v.Rl.C'da6 po Ist pf bds &inde .. • • Do. Delhi— . I 4 Do. do ti Do. Punjaub Do. Do. , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 1.1.0iN1 I AL UV V E. 114 115 39 40 971 98t 10- 1014 44 45} 121 121 1231 t 24 11 14p 91 93 501 511 24 25 99 091 55 654 86 86a 116 118 1 16p 1 16k 5k 116 12 119 121 42 43 98 100 48 50 32 33 92i 04 67 69 99 101 7 8 811 374 9 10 0 7 7 1 149 l5l 4i 5 !. ki 3}p 79 81 150 100 28 30 431 44/ 37 39 99 101 SESSIONS. Closinv. Price. 62 G 4 1061 167 i 1 4 P 4 b i kP 7t 8 1(5 107 1(? 108 1074 84 IJO9 1 4 al) A 1p 194 20, Si (5 45 50 50 65 40 45 1-5 40 80 25 20 25 18 22 108 109 1 4 1► 105 107 12i :21 8 71d 100 102 91 93 11 lb 1054 106 99 101 95 17 47 49 3 5 EO f 2 1(1f .08i 106 10i 4 IP .05i IC6i , 00 102 514 1 t 66H 6 1 , 8 i 2 751 39i 071 loli 14i 121 i an i 3 NI 1 99 1 1031 I f 204 1081 121 i 10 1001 100 [Ol3-1 101 2 ii 32 92 i li 3 Business don, Paid. 2 5 all all 10, 100 100 100 100 100 100 I 100 (100 t oo 2 15 ICO M I.f 8 8i 6i 7 7 8 85 87 112 113 40 42 13 14 87 89 107 109 51 82 45 47 24i `43i I 1201 124 1 120 122 134 136 10 102 6E# (61 1081 1081 76 THE SUN; LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 11.863.1 BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, April 9 : ASSETS. P. C. Cash and ingots .. .„ .. .. 113,609,031 88 Cash at the branch-banks .. .. .. 263,065,338 Bills due to be paid to-day. .. .. .. 630,465 41 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 68,169,860 f. 47c. are from the branch banks .. .. .. .. .. 271,067,470 64 Bills in the branch-b a nk s .. .. .. 233,808,266 Advances on coin and ing o t s .. • . 7,690,300 Do in the branch- banks .. . . 1,752,200 Do on French securities .. .. 68,534,600 Do in the branch-banks .. • • 14,383,700 Do on railway shares and bonds .. 50,093,400 Do in the branch-banks .. .. 31,397,850 Do on Credit Foncier Bonds .. .• 404,200 Do in the branch-banks • • • • 288,000 Do to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 60,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund . • • • 7 9 12 980 750 14 Rentes, disposable funds .. .. .. 30,158,584 61 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. • • 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. • • 6,010,711 Expenses of administration .. .. 1,012,068 3 Sundries .. .. .. .. .. 6,765,043 10 1,277,651,998 81 LIABILITIES. Capital • • 182,500,000 Reserve-fund 12,980,750 14 New Reserve 9,125,000 Reserve-immobiliere .. 4,000,000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) 2,316,503 57 Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks .. .. 775,180,775 Do. to order (Post-bills) .. 4,424,601 39 Bills payable at sight .. 4,601,641 Ace, cur. of Treasury Creditor .. 75,102,975 80 Various accounts current 153,328,148 70 Do. branch-banks .. •• .. 30 , 791 , 498 Dividends to be paid 1,128,822 75 Arrears of values deposited 4,853,896 62 Discount, interest, and expenses .. • • 9,606,543 41 Re-discounts of the last half-year .. 1,850,877 89 Sundries .. .. • • • • • • 2.859.964 54 1,277,651,998 81 MARKETS--This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit is small, and prices are well sup ported. Increased supplies of vegetables are on sale, and the trade rules heavy at our quotations. FaTITT. s. d. s: d., S. d. s d Pine apples 8 otolo 0 ' Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Grapes,per lb 0 oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 2 oto 2 6 Foreign do 1 6to 2 6 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Melons .... Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 oto 4 0 Figs, per doz . 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 4 otolo 0 Currants, per lLsv 0 oto 0 0 Lemons, per 120.. 36t0 7 0 Plums, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Gooseberries hf sveo oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 184 11 181 Antwerp • • 25 471 25 60 Brussels — 25 45 25 50 Hamburgh — 13 74 13 8/ Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —6 ' 1 R Vienna Trieste Peteraburgh Berlin — Madrid *• • • Cadiz Leghorn — '25 55 25 60 Milan — 25 55 25 60 Genoa — 25 .55 25 60 Naples Palermo .— 26 571 25 621 Messina __s7i 25 ..,62 Lisbon —52 - 53 Oporto —52 t Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Apr. 18. via Marseilles Apr. 12. cirazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Apr. 18. via Marseilles Apr. 12. Falkland Islands .. May 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Apr. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Apr. 18. via Marseilles Apr. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Apr. 10. via Marseilles kpr. 20. Portugal.... May 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Apr. 10. via Marseilles May. 5. Newfoundland ..Apr. 15. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Apr. 15. by U.S. packet.... " by Canadian packet. Apr. 10. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritle Apr. 10. Bahamas, via New York May 7. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, J Apr. 13. California, and British Columbia.. audienc e , LORD DUNDREARY.—it is wort h recor di ng, w h at we know t o b e a fact, that when this eccentric nobleman, on Tuesday even i ng last, presented himself before a Liverpool already t aken for one month, while 1,200 stalls, at 6s, each, every seat in th e d ress c i rcle, at ss. each, was had been sold. There is no parallel to this in the theatrical annals of Liverpool. It will be the same thing at Edin burgh, we fancy, on the 25th May next.—Scotsnzan. The Moniteur publishes the regul a ti ons for the new establi:hm an e Imperial decree of the 15th November l as t, Donations and legacies for this foundation will be accepted by the Minister ()Mrl4o. VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 6to 3 6, Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 0 1 to 1 6; Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 Red ditto 0 oso 0 01 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 8 Savoy do., pr dz. 0 oto 0 9 I Celery, per ditto 0 10 to 1 g Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0 Brocoli, per bus. 1 oto 1 4 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes), per ton 90 to 140 0 i Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 3 New ditto, pr pnt 0 6to 1 0 Mintirooms.p ptl. 0 9to 1 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 C a bbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 1 oto 3 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, rb per do 0 oto 0 0 bun 0 2to 0 6 Green peas, 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 3 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 3to 2 0 Chill ie s, per ditto 0 o to 0 0 per N On ew ion D s o ,. , d dz oz. bu b n n 0 1 3 0 to to 0 0 1 6 R French beans, h.s. 0 oto 0 0, Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 OSo 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 9to 1 6 NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 5s Od to 10s Od; geese, 5s Od to 7s Od each ; goslings, Bs Od to 8s Od; ducks, 2s 6d to 3s (`d; ducklings 4s Od to 6s Od; rabbits, is 4d to is 8d each; wild do., 1 8 to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 9d each; Surrey fowls lOs Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 7s Od to 10s Od; barn-door fowls 4s Od to 78 Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s Od to 3s Od ; ptarmigan, is Od to Os each; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s Gd to Os ; snipes, 0 s to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od; roasting pigs, 6s Od to 8 s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lid to is 1d; English, is Od to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to Os Od ; French do., 4s Od to 7s Od per 120; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 38 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Sibs. ty the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 28 10d to 48 2d; lamb, 5s 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 48 8d ; and pork, as 4d to 4s 4d per Bibs by the carcase. BILLING SLATE. Salmon, is Gd to is 94 ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 104; prawns, Os ; skate, 64 ; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 2s 64 to 20s; cod, is Od to 5s Od ; brills, is Od to lOs Od; doreys, is Od to 7504; mullets, Os Gd to is Od; lobsters, is Od to 3s; crabs, Is to 38 Od • plaice and garnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6d to 2 s a per pair ; common oysters, s to —8 ; natives, 48s to —s per bushel ; whitings. 3s Od to 9s • haddocks, 4s to 15s ; smelts, is 6d to is Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 120 ; fresh herrings, 58 per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 71d to Bd, of household do., 514:1 to 7d per 41b loaf. - - HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 34d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 41d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4;d; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 8s 6d to 10s 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to 10s 6d ; Downs, 7s Od to 8s 6d; lambs, 2s 9d to 3s 9d; shearlings, is 5d to is 6d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. Trade dull; supply moderate. CUMBERLAND. — Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os; clove) do., £3 10s to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 103 to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os; clove) do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, a lOs to £1 16s per load. Trade heavy. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEER• Miles opened. Receipts. Railways. -,,..._,______, 1- 1 1 862 * 1863 . 1862. 863. X £ Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,077 1,946 Belfast and County Down 49 , 1 2, 730 598 Myth and Tyne . 28 '7, 1,573 1,879 Bristol and Exeter 1 2 14 1211 5, 52 5,734 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington Bl 81 2 92 217 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 403 872 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 201 16, Cork and Youghal • . 32i 324 354 380 Cornwall 534 53} 1,316 1,158 Deeside l7 17 266 261 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 , 1,293 1,239 Dublin and Drogheda 76 °a 1,486 2,465 Dub. & Wicklow and Wexf d 484 481 2,4 5 2,165 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 3 „ 1 , 1,194 1,032 Edinburgh and glasgow 1691 109 2 7,267 6,867 Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 281 270 Furness, &c 5O 62 2 , 787 2,479 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 330 830 25,564 24,718 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1 , 154 1.851 Ht. N ortlin. &W es tn. (Irel.) 7 ll 462 368 304 'it.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 7,4/9 7,792 Great Western 992 9641 56,286 60 315 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno- 861 73 2 1 , 1,67 794• Irish North-Western 145 1 25 1, 726 1.432 Irish South-Eastern 251 25 1 620 356 Lancashire & Yorkshire Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 264 2 B 1,841 l3B 1,493 164 Llanelly 2 2 2 751 5 4 5 13 0 1 84 7 60 0 539 4 London & North-Western 9 LondonLondo & London an s d o ß u l t ac h- lk v w e a s ll tern 442k54 Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2ool 2111 22,817 15,49 London, Chatham, & Dover 728 ni 3,856 1, 0 738 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Blan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9l 9} 1,513 1,030 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan - 2,1,4 - Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 6111 41,577 37,468 Blidland Gt. Westn. of Irind 2191 192 4,432 4,315 Ilionkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,226 2,433 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and New. & Car 894 8674 41,417 36,904 North London 9 9 3,219 2,709 North Staffordshire 254 252 8,215 7.537 Oswestry and Newton... l 2, 42 1,071 591 Rhymney 194 19 4 853 8 , 2 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,829 1,974 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern 13 21 1321 4,641 4,539 Somerset and Dorset 3 94 39i 341 221 South Devon South-Eastern • • 306 306 21,949 17,267 Stockton and Darlington .... 185 161 8,3,2 8,310 Taff Vale 55 ' A • ‘ ,5 6,089 5,274 Ulster 10 2,078 1,937 Vale of Clwyd ..... 10 140 154 Vale of Neath 251 25 1 1,762 2,102 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 292 294 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 272 274 766 810 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 48 3,540 3,431 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 744 380 12 Whitehaven Junction 12 2 883 529 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 836 518 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,154 1,054 Austrian B2B 828 30,772 36,613 Belgian Eastern Junction 2 64 2 6 / 1 291 247 Bombay, Baroda, & L en. India 1821 13 2 3 1,939 1,045 Buffalo and Lake Huron 16 14 1613 1,986 1,510 Detroit and Milwaukle , A 18 '2. 185 3,522 2,252 ' Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France lO6O 47,908 47,764 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1(90 :17,209 13,513 Great Indian Peninsula 405 437/ 10,003 6,068 Great Luxembourg .... f Great Western of Canada. - • 345 345 14,951 10,233 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant• • 436 435 17,037 14,655 Northern of Canada .... ..... . 94 94 1,878 1,487 Northern of France Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 14 91 1 354 121,164 120,3',8 Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 61,347 56,408 Pernambuco 774 -- 1,091 - Royal Danish 69 69 555 586 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,467 1,267 South Austrian .... 1474 1323 49,926 51,038 Southern of France .. 777 777 21864 25071 Welland. .. 25 25 ' West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 7lB 758 36,880 33,456 The Minister of Marine has awarsied a premium of 1,200 f. to M. Vissiere, whose chrenometer stood first in the competition opened on the 15th December last at the Ministry. LITERATURE. The Deserted House of Hawksworth. 3 coil. Hurst and Blackett. Mr. 'Wilkie Collins has a great deal to =ewer for. To his wonderful excellence in that terrible branch of art, and to the success naturally conse quent upon that excellence, we believe we are mainly indebted for the modern Sensation Novel. Nature hos (for the time being, let us hope!) gone out of fashion, and in the world of literature now the palm is given to the extravagant, the amazing, and the unreal. To be surprised appears to be the very acme of enjoyment to the modern romance reader. A morbid craving for stimulants is not the sign of health ; cayenne and curries may be very acceptable as the occasional et ceteras of a repast, but who in the possession of health and appetite could endure to have them before him diurnally. This feverish craving for excitement does not speak well for the present condition of the reading public. It is, moreover, an excitement which must defeat its own object; it is essentially evanescent, like all that is unreal. Not such the spells exercised by the real romancist—by those potent magicians who "hold the mirror up to nature," and who out of the fulness of their own hearts appeal, and not in va'n, to the living hearts of millions. Talk of interest and excitement, what mysterious secret, utterly worthless when discovered; what accu mulated horrors, quite innocuous because so accu mulated, which crowd the pages of the Sensation Novel, can in any the most remote degree compare with the universal interest which was felt in so many households all over the kingdom, aye, and even attested by tears, at the death of poor Smike, and little Nell,and little Paul, and tiny Tim ?—What Sensation Novel produces such sensation ! When Nicholas administered that immortal thrashing to Mr. Squeers, when he clung in angry desperation to the cab-horse of Sir Mulberry Hawk, those were indeed scenes of excitement that stirred responsive passions in the honest indignant hearts of hun dreds. Do we not all remember them well? These are sensation novels, we admit, to whose power we cordially bear testimony, a power again and again attested as they alternately elicit our tears and our laughter; but such are not the tributes accorded to the modern novel. Who ever wept over a sensation story ? "It is very pretty poetry, Mr. Pope, but it is not Homer," said the censorious critic. This is very clever acting—very clever, we have no doubt—but it is acting, and we must be pardoned if we are old-fashioned enough to prefer truth and nature, whether in tragedy or comedy, to art and artifice, whether in pantomime, burlesque, extrava ganza, or spectacle. Having Broken so far in gene ralities, we must turn to the latest and not the least meritorious specimen of its class, " The Deserted House of Hawksworth !" The readers of the cir culating library may rejoice in the ample banquet here provided for them. Horror, and mystery, and intrigue, passion and prejudice, evil-doing, and yet more evil revenge and tardy but triumphant retri bution, constitute some of the attractive features of this novel. The author's name is not given, but it does not read like the work of an unpractised hand. It displays no inconsiderable ability ; some of the characters are well portrayed, and many of the scenes described with much spirit, and the story possesses a certain amount of originality. We are willing to accord to book and writer a fair amount of praise, but the work is of a class for which we have no sympathy. For example let us specify a few of its contents; in so doing, we shall perhaps, in the opinion of some, be pronouncing a panegyric. The tale opens with the opening of the "Deserted House of Hawksworth"—a house that for 20 years had been walled in, and blocked up, and inacces sible. Twenty years before, a wedding breakfast had been prepared in the spacious dining-room, but the bride had married another bridegroom, and the Master of Hawksworth, disappointed at the last moment, had caused the hall to be walled up with the wedding breakfast on the table—an incident that will remind some of Miss Havisham's disap pointment. Twenty years after the house is opened, and its master enters it to die. Later on the real heir is discovered by the falling of an old chiffonier at an auction, when a paper escapes from a secret drawer (fortunately addressed to a person who happens to be present!) The heir with his bride (the daughter of the faithless bride) enters the Hall at list to reside there, and that night it is destroyed by fire. One of the heroines, Marina Moriarty, is a most impassioned character. Many parts of her history would have been well omitted. De ceived by the faithless hero, she appears at his wedding breakfast, terrifies the bride almost to death, and after threatening to de stroy her, attempts to kill herself, and apparently dying, charges her false lover with murder. She recovers, however, and a little later on resumes her old influence over her former captive, to the great disgust of the reader, who rejoices (we speak for ourselves) when shortly afterwards, in a fit of pas sion, the faithless husband is hurled over a preci pice by the indignant hand of his lady love, who dies of grief, and on her tomb is recorded an epitaph worthy of a sensation novel : " Marina, Aged 23 years, Born on the ocean amidst a storm, Died on the cold ground with none to close her eyes." Is not this enough to justify all our remarks ? Many we have, no doubt, will follow with interest the tragic events here recorded, but when the sur prise is over and the mystery discovered, how many will turn again and again to ponder over these pages as we are in the habit of doing with many a favourite work we could mention, but then they are not Sensation Novels. New Views on Baldness: being a Treatise on the Hair and Skin. By H. P. Truefitt, Pp. 264. W. and A. Webster, Piccadilly. A Treatise on Baldness by Mr. Truefitt is as much comme it faut, is as entirely a something done with the strictest regard (literally) to the fitness of things as a disquisition by Mr. Rarey on Horse taming, or an account by M. Blondin (though he has never yet, we believe, gone as far South as the Equator) of the pleasures of crossing the line. In regard to the particular subject the author has here taken in hand, he may very confidently be described as the right man in the right place—to a hair! He might, at the risk of startling the hon. and learned gentleman the member for Sheffield into a momentary indignation at having his right to his own title, seemingly, in sound at least, directly threatened—have called his book " The History of the Wigs." As it is, Mr. Truefitt contents himself, we cannot but think very wisely, with the more modest office of writing a mere abstract or gene ralised treatise on the Hair and Skin, distinguishing this same treatise not more pretentiously than by naming it, " New Views on Baldness." Any one whose hair has been seriously thinned, whether by the laps 3 of time, or, as it happens in the in stance of some, prematurely, will do well to consult the pages of Mr. Truefitt. We are quite satisfied of this, we would observe, en passant, quite dispas sionately, as mere theoretical students and observers, in regard to the highly important section of physiology here treated of, the most highly impor tant of all it should be remarked in its relative position, being, in point of fact, above all the rest, all the lower part, as one may say, of our human anatomy. The work, although touching most delicately (as such an artist's hand as Mr. Truefitt's could alone do in the presence of such a theme), upon the Hair and Skin—is, nevertheless, anything but superficial. In reality Mr. Truefitt may be said here to have sounded—mark this l—tbe very depth ; of Beauty. That is, it' the proverb is to bfe beautyloolt upon as in any way accurate, which speaks as being only skin-deep. For Mr. re searches penetrate through the whol Tuefites oe depth of the skin. It is not merely an artist who is here dis coursing to us upon a matter that is, indeed, his metier—it is a philosopher. Hear him describing the functions of the skin for example, and giving a succinct history of it, when chemically con sidered ! Listen to him when he is descanting upon the nervous elements of the ecalp—a theme the examination of which, as here pursued through all its subtle mazes, would infallibly make the mouth of a Red Indian water, out of sheer sympathy, and induce him to relieve his excited feelings by putting a keener edge upon his tomahawk. Deeper and deeper into this current of his swims onward our author when he has to descant "On Favus or Porrigo Favosa," " Oa Scurf or Pityriasis," " On Eczema,' 44 o n Impetigo," " On Psoriasis," and so forth—we had almost written it psoforth. Having, however, got through the more scientic part of his treatise really very creditably, our renowned Artist in Hair. our revered Author " Upon Baidness"—one whose tender care for those omitted with Baldness may be said (to use a common parlance), to reflect aqua credit on his head and heart, or rather perhaps we ought to say upon their heads and his heart—Mr . Truefitt in a word (how aptly named ! ) gets at las t upon more familiar subjects. When, for example , he has to comment at his own free wil l and pleasure on " Cutting the Hair," on " Combing and Brushing," on Washing the Hair, on Dyeing it—though to our mind, with such wigs in existence as Truefitt's, the motto with the greyest and the reddest haired among us all, ought certainly to be " Never say Dye !" Greases, and Washes, and all the little et ceterus of the toilet, one by one are passed in review, moreover, by this Arcadian dreamer—we should say this Burlington-Arcadian dreamer upon Hair, and Scalps, and Wigs, and Baldness. Even the most irritable of Yankees might allow, in Mr. Truefitt's regard, that he gets one's dander up sometimes, perhaps, with his brushes —with his pen, never ! Only once his own may be described, figuratively of course, as having risen —namely, when ho burst© into a " fine phrenzy' of indignation upon what he dubs in plain terms (the capitals are his own) " The Folly of Shaving!" In such horror is he at the mere notion of that barber-ous proceeding, that one could fancy almost " each particular hair" upon every one of his wigs standing upon end, by electric sympathy, " like quills upon the fretful," &c. For, in point of fact, what after all is Shaving ? Why nothing less than the production of—what Mr. Truefitt has an especial horror of in every point of view, what he has here discoursed upon so eloquently through nearly 300 pages octavo—the deliberate production of an arti ficial—Baldness! History of England, from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief-Justice Coke. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Two Vols. Hurst and Blackett. The period of history comprised in these volumes is a very brief one. It extends over little more than a dozen years, and those years are unmarked by startling events or national crises. It may seem at first sight strange that an historian, who was willing to devote so much time and labour to so short a page of our annals, did not select a passage from the reigns on either side of his hero, and depict with the elaborate faithfulness of his present treatise the great statesmen who gathered in the council chamber of the Maiden Queen, or the sturdy patriots who fought the battle of English rights in the days of the Civil War. The epoch which Mr. Gardiner has ciosen, however, is not without its importance. It was a time of transition and uncer tainty. The strong hand that had so long guided the helm of State was gone ; the honour of the people abroad, and their liberties at home, were in equal danger. During the thirteen years which occupy this history, James was secretly busy in extending the influence of the Crown, and consoli dating its rights and privileges. The foundation of the fatal struggle between Crown and Parliament, which was to be productive of so much trouble in the succeeding generation, was even then being laid. Mr. Gardiner goes so far as to say that, c, if it is possible for those who begin their study of the English constitutional struggle at any later date to arrive at sound conclusions with respect to the principles at stake, it is utterly impossible for them to judge the actors fairly." It is only, he adds, by a careful investigation of the origin and progress of the guiding principles of a party, that it is possible rightly to comprehend Cie feelings of the partisans, or to draw the line which separates a blunder from a crime. The general political history of the open ing years of James's reign is summed up as follows —" At the end of 1816, the Constitution, at least in the minds of the supporters of the Crown, had assumed that form which ti as always defended by them in the course of the ensuing conflict as the true Constitution of the country, The prerogative bad established its claim to be con sidered as the regulating part of the machinery. The sittings of Parliammt had been suspended without any immediate prospect of their renewal. The judges had been taught by a practical example, that they held their offices only at the good pleasure of the Sovereign. In short, these thirteen years and a half were years of constitutional change, no less real because it was carried on within the letter of the constitution. It was in them that the wea pons were forged which were to be used by James and his son with such unfortunate results for them selves. Up to the summer of 1616 it was a question what constitutional powers the Crown would be able to assert. At the end of the year the question was, what use would be made by it of the powers of which it had obtained possession." The gradual steps by which this change was effected are well told by Mr. Gardiner ; so is the firm stand made on the ground of constitutional right by the Parlia ment. Sometimes James went a step too far, and had to alter his position. Such was the case when the Commons took into consideration the imposts which the King had been levying on certain articles of commerce. " The kings of France, Spain, and Denmark," said James angrily, " had the right to levy impositions, and why should not he do as they did ? He would not have his prerogative called in question." This unconstitutional language gave great offence to the Commons, who appointed a committee on the subject, and drew up a petition of right, in which they declared that "they would not be prevented from debating on any matter which concerned the rights and interests of the subject." The dispute was subsequently compromised, only to be succeeded by others of a similar character. In the year 1614 James was compelled by his neces sities to summon a Parliament. The elections were most unfavourable to the Government, and the re sult was a serious struggle for supremacy. The com mons brought forward the public grievances, of which the first and foremost was the impositions, and on the refusal of the Lords to hold a conference they postposed the consideration of the supply. The King, incensed, dissolved the Parliament after a very brief session, and committed four of the refrac tory members to the Tower, four others were struck out of the commission of peace, and several were forbidden to leave London. James did not venture on summoning another Parliament until long after the date at which these volumes close. The evil example which he thus set to the youthful heir to the throne was only too closely followed by the hapless Charles the First. Of the effect of surrounding circumstances on his nar row and impressible mind, Mr. Gardiner speaks strongly in his concluding pages. Had he, says the historian been some 10 or 15 years older he might have learned a d i fferen t d th e lesson. But at the dawn of his early manhoo great men of the great days of Elizabeth. their adsPyasTeema away. Their policy, their princtoplfets, of government, their know.ledgseof the be temper and s in Ch t a h r e le h s i c s o to u r l y d past. " There wants of the people, were tl a li ni n crdohfwbeieuteh:hl l ess s y w teh t: h c at i e c ofh hunderstand inge w a has, perhaps, nev o e i of England at w sealled hoh locapable of forming large and the duties ente t r h u e p r o e n al m n manhood fulfil. views for himself, there was little ensiv b e eing led in the right path by those c u o p m on pre t h o tgreatestather,s counsels s t e h l the hope of his him.took paErvteinn the e s thoughts lay apart from the main r bwe e lls r ot e ow m f e e trh n eoa w s re whou ose d current of the life of the nation; and, desirable as it is, that diversities of opinion should exist in the body of the people, it is never with impunity that such a separation grows up between a nation and its rulers." Short as is the period referred to in this work, Mr. Gardiner considers it as an epoch com plete in itself. With the disgrace of Coke, he says the period of transition ends. "It is a great his torical landmark. Up to this time James has been busy in acquiring the powers which were after wards to be used with such fatal results to himself and his son. In two or three years James will be the most unpopular man in the three kingdoms. England will be disgusted by the negotiations with Spain—Scotland will be enraged by the Five Articles of Perth—lreland will be irritated by the seizure the eharter of Waterford." M r . Oardiner has brought his task a thorough knowledge of his subject, to a spirit of fair and careful investiga tion, laborious research, and temperaance of tone• His style is always clear and even, never iisiug into eloquence or sinking into mediocrity. Yet he eau seal cely expect his work io be extensively popular. It required the reputation and the genius of a Macaulay to make the general public interest them selves in a few outwardly uneventful years. It demands an historical student like himself to appre ciate and to value his labours. It needs the same sp:rit of patient inquiry by which he is distinguished, to read carefully these two bulky volumes, only to trace the origin of the great facts which casual observers learned long ago. Yet every careful and authenticated work of the class is a gain to our standard literature, and though perhaps unread by the mass of superficial readers, the thoughtful student will be tempted to place this work on his shelves as a contribution to his light apprcciatioa of the history of his countrymen. Memories of the Past and Thoughts upon the Present Age. By J. Brown. Longman. This work contains some very interesting essays on various topics, and the author informs us in his first article that he is approaching his eightieth year, but still preserves unimpaired his memory. Thus he can compare the storms of the present day with those on which his young eyes opened. He has a perfect remembrance of the sensation which was made by the capture of Louis XVI. A brief but emphatic account is given of the varied feelings produced in the minds of men by the changing aspects of the French Revolution. At first it was supposed to be the dawn of a great and glorious era, and on all sides it was hailed with en thusiasm. "O'er the vine-covered hills and gay valleys of France See the day-star of liberty rise," sang the poets of the day, but afterwards men be came disgusted at the extremes to which the advo cates of liberty went in the pursuance of their pro jects. Passing onwards in his cursory glance at historical events, the author mentions Mr. Buckle's History of Civilisation, and dissents from the opi nions therein expressed. There is a good deal on the subject of America, and at the conclusion he considers the present social position of England. He says that if we would rightly depict the mind of England, we must consider loyalty and patriotism the prominent characteristics. He aptly refers to the prevalent sentiments of the last generation, and suggests that to illustrate his meaning any senior of our community should call up before his mind's eye the condition of the country at the time of Queen Caroline's trial, and compare what he then saw with what he now witnesses. "How was this manifested when Prince Albert, the great, the good, passed from among us to brighter realms." While on this subject Mr. Brown mentions an interesting occurrence which took place more than twenty years ago, when he, as mayor of the town, presented an address to the late Prince Consort. He says that, looking up at the Prince, he recalled the words of the greatest historian of all antiquity to his fa vourite hero, " You would readily believe him to be a good man, you would wish to believe him a great one." Finally, the work winds up by declaring that England is at this moment in the van of the civilisation of the world. Nor does there appear any reason to fear her decadence, sirce nations fall from their sins. "Rome fell because her very con stitution was a vile conspiracy against the rights and liberties of all the rest of the world." In our country, on the contrary, it is not probable that civilisation will become retrogressive, and as our policy, international and domestic, is founded on right and justice, we may foresee for its future " long career of happiness and prosperity." _Yobly False. A Novel. 2 vols. By J ames M'Grigor Allan. Newby. This is a very peculiar work, that is not likely to be pleasing to the general reader, on account of its being more the exponent of ideas and the enunci ator of theories than a reflection of society and a chronicle of the lives of individuals. Gerald, the hero, is one of those wild erratic young men who are always supposed to be doing something great, but unfortunately never succeed in achieving any— thing in a small way that can win for them true renown, or gain respect from sober-minded people. In religion he tried all creeds, till he appeared to be too good for any at last. In politics he was also most skilled in detecting frauds and fallacies, till he ended his first attempt in that line by being ea rested as the leader of a Chartist mob and creating riots in his native town. He was not more happy in his affections than he had been wise in his public career or notable in his form of worship. He ruined the peace of an innocent girl, who was deeply at tached to him, and she became so confused by the conflicting claims of right and wrong that she poisoned herself. Then in his marriage Gerald put the finishing stroke to his long career of blunders. There are some minds that get so infatuatei with their notions of broad views, liberal principles, and unprejudiced opinions, that they end by be coming as rooted in their unaccommodating dogmas as any of the bigoted classes they despise and de nounce. Gerald is a good prototype of such individuals, and the extremes into which he went may serve aptly to portray the evils they occasion and the errors they. fall into from their extreme views. Essays and Reviews; their Origin, History, General Character and Significance, Persecution, Prosecu tion, the Judgment of the Arches Court, Review of Judgment. By the Rev. R. B. Bernard, M.A., Oxon. Hardwicke. In all probability every one has heard enough, and more than enough, of the subject of this volume, but as the author has been at considerable pains to collect the diverse intelligence that he imparts in these pages, some may be induced to give them theit attention, and be instructed and interested thereby, even though they should not agree with the tenets of the writer. In the preface we are told that the work is put forth with the hope of dispelling the cloud of prtjadiee and misrepresentation through which the volume of "Essays and Reviews" has hitherto been regarded. "For this end the writer has endeavoured to point out the true place of that work in the history of religious thought , its in the inductive method introduce d d its more immediate antecedents and special day." This provo catives in the literature oft the purpose, at all event, is straightforward and t to the present that those who have and although it etitemself delusion of the recognised from tihsenooutsevt e now under discus sion,writers of that celebrated . Blaring errors into which they have and the s earch their so called after truth, 'will be fallen in influenced by an y ingen i ous arguments to change op inions, still all t heir Wh3 honestly state their views are entitled to consideration, and the of this o little book app ears t be author more moderate in his tone and less bitter cuss theological questions. id - Aaa Pm tescue—A Novel. By the author of 4, The Dairy mples," &e. 3 vols. Newby. This is a very romantic tale that is well calculated to please those readers who love excitement. The incidents are very strikingly told in some parts, and there are many individuals introduced into these pages, Ada is an interesting heroine, and although bhe was most culpable in entering into an engage -1 ment in so clandestine a manner, and particularly . in her secret marriage, still we cannot but sympa thise with her in her sad trials. It was a very hard lot for one reared in luxuries as she had been to be cast so friendless and unprotected on the world. Her adventures at Mrs. Robertson's are very ably nar rated, and it is to be feared that they furnish a true picture of the existence of many unfortunate go vernesses who are domiciled beneath the roof of un feeling women like her whom poor Ada had to serve. It was a most unwise thing for Ada to assume ss ed in a different name, but nothing could have x A Mrs. Robertson from behaving suchaasylee e Lid d o exchanged one tyrant f or another, but sh e is much town -thank her own folly for going to live with such a an as Mr. Snell. On the whole tmheeroe of the secondary to in these volumes, anhdasso gLucy Melville, are personages introduced , suethin very refreshing in; amid the artifi attractive. There is . Borne yo? n g A lady,idtae and e o n e w l u we i areon i s left a the appearance of this cial scene of fashionable Need. much i of foreign happy one for . the in the supposit i on that the rough usages imparted to Edward Messenger, warfare 11 °4 eked at the that wisdom which he a outset of the tale. 13.14. 25 10 st Bt 50 20 19.16.4