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

tON E Y MARKETI AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a fair demand for accommodation in the general discount market this morning, and the rates for first-clabs three months' bills are 3i and 4 per cent. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £977,000, and the exports to £291,836. The directors of the Port Philip and Colonial Gol:: Mining Company have received by telegram from Suez the following advices in anticipation of the Australian Mail, from their resident director, Mr. Bland, at Melbourne, giving the result of the month of January last. Quantity of quartz crushed, 2,709 tons ; yield per ton, gold, 9 dwts. 15 grs. The yield per ton of quartz, during the month of February, was much improving. Receipts, £2,25' ; payments, £1,657; profit, £601; remit tance, £l,OOO. Two O'CLocx. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 60e.—Rather firm. The Stock Exchange to-day has presented a very quiet appearance, many of its more influential mem bers being absent. Scarcely any business is reported in the market for Consols, which are quoted at 92k t, for transfer, rnd the Bth inst., and 92-1 8 for May. The New Threes and Reduced are 918 ; India Stock, 228 ; ditto, 5 per Cents. 108 f, ; ditto, 5 per Cent. Enlaced, 107; and Exchequer Bills, ss. to 2s. die. Although the dealings in the Foreign Market have been limited, higher prices have been current. Turkish Consolides have improved to 494 ; do. Loan of 1862 is 691 4 ; Italian have advanced to 716 ; Greek, to 281 29; do. Coupons, to 131; Spanish Passive, to 28a- 9 ; Portuguese Laan Scrip, to 31 4 prem.; Mexican are 331- ; Russian, 954 96 ; and Venezuelan, 59/ 60. The Confederate Loan is 3to . 2 discount. Business in the Railway Share Market con tinued dull, but, in one or two instances, there was a slight improvement. Grtat Easterns and North Eistern (Berwick) advanced 53., and South Easterns 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were without material variation. Namur and Liege realiz-3cl 8$; East Indian, 1081 ; and Great Indian Peninsula 108 i. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were, n some instances, a shade firmer. • BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. -- i 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ... 92i 1 , New 3 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock 228 i. Ditto 5 per Cent lOB/ I Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. I Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 at D. , ~, Bond s £l.000 Consols for Account, April 8 92; Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2i per Cent 5 2 dis c Ditto £SOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 . 100/ Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — DittO:A.ccount. Ditto Coupons l3/ 1 13 a e . Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 33k 3 1 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account 4Bk i Ditto 1862 - Ditto Scrip, £3O paid 3 k i pm a Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St O6 a Ditto 41 per Cent „ 1860 .... Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. gi Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account .. 911 904 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832 Ditto Account . . • 691 1 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1882 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Att.() Account 9 )/ a May settlement PAST UNIVERSITY MATCHES. (From the Field of this day.) These exciting cc ntests originated in a challenge from Cqnabridge to Oxford, made in 1829 ; and on the 10th of June of that year was rowed the first match between the two great Universities of Eng land, the beautiful reach of Henley-on-Thames being chosen as the scene of the encounter, The match was not rowed over what is now the Regatta course, namely from the island to the bridge (about one • mile and a third), b u t from just above L./ the lock (be low the island) to the bridge, being about three quarters of a mile longer than the present rowing distance. All who know the Thames at this point will readily admit that the Berkshire side is a de- cided advantage, the river turning sharp on that 6iae. This advantage was possessed by the Oxford crew, who shortly drew in advance, and reached Henley-bridge the winners by several boatslengths. another contest did not take place till 1836, in the month of June of which year they rowed for the first time in London, the course being from West minster-bridge to Putney bridge, a dis- - • tance of rather more than five mites. The race took place in a deluge of rain; Cambridge, who 7 at the start displayed some good water manship in the management of their boat, gained a gradual advantage, and won by as much as 500 yards. The seconu London match was rowed in 1839, Cambridge winning by one minute and a ' half. The next match, which took place in the spring of 1840, was also won by Cambridge, but not without a most determined and exciting struggle over the whole distance, and then by only three gnat ters of a boat's length. Time, under 30 minutes. In 1841, for the fourth time in succession, the Cam bridge men were victorious, winning by one minute. In 1842 Oxford won by 15 seconds. There was not another match till 1845, when they rowed for the first time over the present course—Putney to Mort lake ; the result was in favour of Cambridge, by about, five lengths. In 1646 Cambridge won by about two lengths, after a hard race, the time of which was 21 minutes 4seconds. They did not again meet till 1849, when there were two matches, the first of which the Cambridge won ; the second, which was rowed in December, was unfortunately terminated by a f ou l cause d b y C ambridge, who at the time were leading by three-quarters of a length, and Oxford were consequently the winners. In 1852, after another interval of two years, they 3 ov , e d a match, which was decided in favour of Ox ford by six lengths. The next contest was in 185 1; and the 0 xoniansa gain proved vi ctorious,winning by about 7or 8 lengths. The next year passed with out a match, but in 1856 they rowed down fro m B irker's Rails (above Mortlake) to Putney, an d, atter an exceedingly close race, Cambridge won by three-quarters of a length only. From 1857 may be dated the change of style in the rowing of the Uni versity crews, the modern light rowing of the Ox ford crew on that occasion beating with the greatest ease their opponents, who rowed the high feather for the last time. It was declared by many expe rienced boating men of the day that the champions cf that year were, at the time of the race, the most perfect eight-oared crew they ever beheld. In 1858 Can-bridge won easily by 25 seconds, but it was not at all a satisfactory contest, owing to the thowl of the Oxioi d stroke being damaged immediately after starting. Li 1859 it will be remembered Cambridge were still more unfortunate, as their boat went down headforemost in the rough water, but they were already beaten. In 1860 there was a splendid con test, Cambridge winning, after a most determined succession of spurts on both sides, by a length and a h a d. In 1861 the Oxford won easily by fifteen or sixteen lengths; and last year they were also vic torious, winning by 35 seconds. They have again :won easily, for the third time in succession. Thus it will be seen that, for the twenty contests, the honours are equally divided, each University having won tea. teir the irst en and ess. SHARE AIARKETS--YestekAay ORDINARY SHARE' , AND STOult.S. F a il Closing Business Price. done. 8 8i 7 8 85 87 112 113 6i 7 Share Railways. 13.14; bir., Wol., and Str. Val.l 5 islythe and Tyne. .0 13ost,Sleat,andMid.Co st Bristol and Exeter it Caledonian i 0 ors and Bandon 10 Cornwall l 0 Do A A frets no di , 10 D , ~,, till flp c.p au.haF -""' been paid to B. SO Dublin & Belfast June. 15 Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. st Edinburgh & Glasgow. st Glasg. and S. Western. st Great Eastern, Ord. stk st Ditto A stock et Ditto East Anglian st st Great Northof Scotland et Great Northern et Do A stock st Do B do st Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland at Great Western ...... • • et Do Str Val gun. stock. et Lancashire & 'Yorkshire at London and Blackwal i et Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast st Lon., Chat., and Dover st Lon. & North Western et Lon. & South Western et man., Shef., & Lincoln. 5 0 Maryport and Carlisle. 124 Do t shares . 10 Metropolitan st Midland 5. 4 . 0 Do New at Do Birming. & Derby - 0 Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland 5 Do. 4 shares 5 Mid Kent 0 Do Cray Line it North British it Edin., Perth, & Dundee it Nth. Eastern—Berwio; 1 5 Do, G.N.E. purchase it Do Leeds 3t Do York st Do Carlisle st North London 10 Do New 16.4 North Staffordshire 10 IN. and S. W. Junction at Scottish Central et Scot N. E., Aber. stock it Do Scot. Mid. stock .0 Shrews. and Welchpoo it !Shropshire Union it !South Devon it !South Eastern it 'South Wales it I S. York. and River Dun NI Staines,Wok.,andWok 15 Stockton & Darlington 25 Do 25 Do New, 1860 et Taff Vale.. 10 Do B 10 Do C .0 Ulster ;5 Do .10 Do it !Vale of Neath it (Victoria sta. and Pim it Waterford & Kilkenny ;t West Cornwall it W. Hartlepool Har.&R.' it West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH P flat twavr t land° AL St Lawrenc. iiom.,Barotha.Cent In( Gu. kper Do. New 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... zOi Ruflalo anti Lake tiurot 10 Do. Preference .• • • • • ButTalo,Brant,&Godrici 00 3 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, Is7'4 .0 0 Do. do. July 1, 187:- .00 -70. •10. ,1 unt• 1, 1•• Et !I , utra.. , :S.Easfo. - I. Rt 'apeTown AL Dock Scr Lock Eastn. Bengal go. S p. ;ock Last Indian. gu. 5 p. • 20 Do. do. G Ext. 0 Do. do. II do. .. )ck Grand Trunk of ('anal: )0 Do. Ist Pre*. Bonds . )0 Do. )..o. deferred...... )0 Do. 2d Pref. Boryis.. )0 Da. do d ler ed...... )0 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... )0 Do. do. d• 1 err. d..... )0 Do. 4th Pref. s o k... Do. do deferred...... sk Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.e Do. New gua. 5 Do. January, 1862 :if Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New .... .... )O z Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. 10 Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. 10 Indian Branch Limited )cli Madras guar., 5 p. c. )ck Do. 4t p. c. Extension )ck De. 4 , d 0.... .. • - ZO Do. Fifth Extension. )ck Melb.Com. ti p. .3. Bud 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. DO Do. 7p. c. Mortg. B&. N Newßrunswick .t Candy Class A en 1 B N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pi bd , Lock Scinde et 5 Do. Delhi • ,=l*: t Do. do • • 4 Z. 20 Do. Punjaub et Do. Do. •• • • ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 'SSE Paid. 8.11 2 5 all all 100 101, 100 100 10. all 100 (100 1 00 2 15 100 1() SIONS. Closinv Price. 62 64 06 107 i lip 5 # i A oi 7i 8 115107 It 6 107 107 P 8 118 log 1} itp t 1p 19 0 63 66 , 8 81 54 87 42 a 5 1-8 42 33 ?6 24 27 20 22 1071 tOB I " 11 105 107 12i .3 8 7.1 100 102 93 C 5 liminess done ►O6l 103 103¢ lost 105 u 6 98 10 1 95 7 47 49 3 5 EO !2 167 it 8 105 106 kP 1054 l€ 6 99 101 101} COLONIAL GOVERNMENT sEcuttrriEs. 6 p.c.J a I 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. &A w_ 100 1(4 (6 Do. 6p. & Sept 100 104 106 ! Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 101 , 98 97i 61 Do. 5 Inscribed stocl, 100 95 97 CapeG.Hope, 6 p 0,187: 100 ,10 112 Do.Ap &Oct 1881 100 114 116 Do. 189 , 100 114 116 .Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p t 100 - Mbu itius 8 per cent .. tOO 11l 112 Na , a. Gr,v. 6 per cent 130 ill 112 N.lS.Guv.op.c.JaaiJul 100 IJ6 1 0 7 6p. c.Ap. & Oc:. 100 - N. S.W. G ov. p 1,18 • 100 101 102 Do. sp. to I i 100 1001 101} - Do• - ••, do 1888 &upwth 160 lout 1 0 1 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. IGO 1061 1071 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 1 113 b. Aus Grip. 0.1676.& up. 100 1/1 113 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 108 110 Do. in a n.n. kn.&Ont.. 100 .081 109 1081 I BRITI SII MINES. Cambrian Consol. Gold c 'mord Amalgamated }E Devon ia G oB g C e tout( Goldn t ' a a a v Ln i td. East Caradon ...... East Carn Brea.... E. W'l Russel (Tavistk. Gam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) tireat South 'rolgus ;. Wheal Vor (Ralston I Grenville .. Herod's-Foot I ' I ingston [uly Bertha Attrgaret (Llny Lelant arke Valley.. Ntyndy Iron Ore (Lim New Setun • • A urth Downs riaseet (1110 1111 north Wheal Crotty t'ar Consols (st. Blazey : 'rovidenee (Uny Lein I.; .3outhCaradon(St.Cleer 3. Cam Brea (Illogan) '..Wheat Fran. (Illovit Stray Park Tamar Silv.ez Lead Min. Lin Croft West Basset (Illogan).. W Caradon (Liskeard West. Seton Wheal Bas:9et (I llog,an Wheal Buller ( Redruth Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant WhealLud. ott 474 ti 5 2.0.8 2.10.8 8 58} 7 3.17 ‘l,' heal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Treiaivney (Lis. Wheal Union 6i 6f 154 itii :15 255 17 18 5 5} PREFERENCE SHARES. Glasgow and S.-Westsrn gua. 5 per cent , 120 Gt. Western erks & Hants Ext.), 4.4 per cent. red., 981 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref., lu2 Midland 4s per cent. pt. stk., 1024 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per et., 931 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, 5 per cent., 114} Hull ~nd Selby, 110; Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Namur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, 81- FOREIGN MINES. Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, 1 United Mexican (Um.), 68 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Australasia, 73! Bank of Egypt, 29i 30 24 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 91 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 25 41 51 Colonial, 39 Eng., Sco ~ and Australian Chartered, 26 London and Brazilian film.), 31 London Joint Stock, 3 6 London and South African, 27} London and Westminster, 78 Berlin Wate National Provincial of England, new, 211 Provincial of Ireland. 90 Upton Crystal pater of Australia, a 2 Works, MISCELLANEOUS. 71 anal Cavour), o Crystal Pai a ce ce.' :1312 rte r cent. perpetl. deb., 112 i B gush and A u Italian Irrigatiostrr" (I°Pller. 11 London Gen( raluocimnibu, Rio de Janeiro city "VanYalim.), provements (lim.) (.£2), 3j SHIPPING —This Day. L ONDO N, April 4.—Wind thig day at no on —N or th- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. CLYDE, April 2.—Arrived—Runnymede, from Pernam buco • Etas Abbott, from Demerara, Bannockburn, from Quebec, I OVER, Apail 2.—bailed—St. Germans, t.r Huelva, after repairing. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is abc,it per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.22 k Vl' £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the E n g lish mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is n arly 2-10ths t er cent. dcaier in London than hi Paris. By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 4t4 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. -tandard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, about 5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at days' sight is about 171 per cent., and the premium on gold is 553 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the naportation of gold from the United State,. 3.0.0 7.19.0 57 4 17e, , c. 16 4. 7.0 2.06 4.3.0 2.4.0 18 10.6.; 11 5.15.6 11.1 -.9, 28.9. 1201 1211 120 122 134 136 101 103 6 , 1 (CI LOBl 1(81 7) 76 114 115 39 40 97 08 10. i 101 44 45} 21 121 ;2.31 i 24 lep 91 93 50 51 24 25 98i 99 5U 55 Esi £6 116 118 1 1i . 16 16i Ili 1Z 119 121 42 t 3 98 100 48 tO 32 33 91f 92; 67 69 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 7 * P 149 151 44 6 3} pI 79 81 150 160 28 30 43 44 37 39 99 101 5.1.0 TTIE AIN, - LONDON, SATITIMAY nvtNING, - APRIL 4, 1863. IFORNIA. teries have been erected for their reception. The Go ,-crn ment has lately had a powder magazine erected on a small island on the inner Bay of Esquimalt—a good situation had the magazine been sunk under ground and built bomb proof; but, instead of these essential conditions having been observed, two wooden buildings, covered with zinc and painted whi , e, have been stuck upon the highest crest of the island, in a conspicuous situation and quite within range of the guns of a vessel lying in the entrance of the harbour. Now, to bring you to the moral of all this talk—here is the Imperial property at Esquimalt :—Two large men-of war and two gunboats, with their respective officers and crews, the idle guns, end the unprotected powder magazine, and 1 may add the Government hospital, generally contain ing many patients of sailors and marines from the navy. Port Angeles, in Washington territory, the site of the American Custom-house, United States Naval Hospital, &c., is the port at which the new Monitor will be stationed. It is opposite to Esquimalt, nine miles across, on the shore of the Straits of Fuca. We have no Monitor at Esqui malt or elsewhere. What is to prevent the American Monitor from crossing the intervening nine miles, coming to an anchor in Esquimalt harbour, and destroying all our vessels at her leisure, destroying or carrying away the powder and the guns, and then moving round to Victoria and leaving her mark there also ? Fortified by high naval authority, I assert there is nothing to prevent all thi- being done, and that before our authorities shall know of a decla ration of war, all means of communication by water, by land, and by telegraph being controlled by Americans. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING--THIS DAY. This being the holiday season, only a few members ap peared in the room ; and no bets came under our notice that would justify a change in quotations, THE ATHERSTONE CASE. (From Bell's Life.) Having received numerous inquiries lately as to whether this horse was really entered and duly entitled to start for the Shropshire Handicap and Hawkstone Cup at the late Shrewsbury Spring Meeting, we subjoin a communication on the subject from Mr. John Frail, the Clerk of the Course. We have since submitted the case to Admiral Rous, and append his decision. " TJ THE EDITOR OF BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON. " Claremont Hill, Shrewsbury. March 29, 1863. "Dear Sir,—Atherst one was entered in a nomination without the knowledge of his owner,' who was informed of this, and that unless he declared to accept by 12 o'clock on the proper day to Messrs. Weatherby, his horse would be struck out of the Shropshire. Messrs Weatherby were also informed of this. Mr. Astley did not accept to Messrs. Weatherby, but telegraphed to me at three o'clock on the day to leave the horse in that race. He appeared amongst the acceptannes in consequence of a blunder of ours in writing to Messrs. Weatherby on the acceptance day to let him re main. This was our mistake, and of course I had to pay the £lO for his stake. On representing these facts to Mr, Astley, he thought it would not ba honourable to run. These remarks apply to tha Shropshire Handicap only. In theHawkstone Cup (£l.O each, sft) there was no acceptance, and he was scratched for that at five o'clock p.m. the day before the race —Yours, &a., JOHN FRAIL. "P.S. You will draw your own conclusions as to bets from these facts; and I am sorry that I was not at home when the letter was written to the Messrs. Weatherby desiring that the horse might be left in." The following is Admiral Rous's decision on the matter : " TO THE EDITOR OF BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON. "Newmarket, April 1, 1863. " Sir,—As Mr. Astley's horse, Atherstone, was named for the Shrewsbury Stake without his cognisance, it was imperative that his sanction and acceptance should be re• ceived before 12 o'clock on the day appointed, in default of which Atherstone was illegally added to the list of accept ances. Mr. Frail admits that this circumstance was owing to a mistake ; the horse, therefore, not being duly qualified to receive the stakes if he had started and come in first, all bets are null and void, because ' you cannot win if you can not lose.' " H. I. Rous," RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. APRIL. Edinburgh Newmarket Craven 6 Thirsk l4 Radcliffe Durham K n i g hton 7 1 Llanboidy 2l Catter ck Bridge 8 i York Spring ... 28 Abergavenny .. 9 Salisbury Mir. Ch es t er 5 Radcliffe 25 Bath l2 Manchester Harpenden l5 Mar lborou g h 29 Epsom l9 Ju Ascot 10 2 Newton Hampton lO Odiham 16 Bibury Club l7 Ju NE. Beverley. l7 Stockbridge lB Chelmsford 23 Newcastle-on-Tyne 23 Carlisle LY. Stamford Winchester 2l Nottingham 21 Cambridge Southampton. 22 Goodwood 22 GUST. IPlymouth 20 25 Egham Stockton 25 Oxford Lichfield I Worcester Summer 2 Newmarket July 7 Liverpool... 13 Abingdon 14- Hungerford l6 Pontefract 16 Au, Brightcn Brighton Club 6 Lewes Wolverhampton 10 Reading York August lB SEPT. Devon end Exeter 2 Derby Summer 8 Warwick .. 10 Leicester 15 aster MBER. Brecon .. .. 21 Richmond. 22 Monmouth 24 Manchester Autumn 25 I Newmarket Ist Oct. 29 Done' POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day. 'WESTMINSTER. TAKING TOBACCO INTO A PRISON.-INGENIOTIS DE FENCE,—Mary Canmeady, a middle-aged Irishwoman, was placed before Mr. Selfe, charged with taking tobacco into the Penitentiary at Milbank. William Bolton, assistant warder at the Penitentiary, said that on Thursday afternoon the defendant came to see her son, a convict there, and when it was time to depart she advanced towards him, and while throwing one arm round his neck and embracing him, slipped a roll of - tobacco wila the other hand into the waistband of his trousers. Witness searched him and found the tobacco, and the prisoner was detained. Defendant said she had gone to see her son, hardly knowirg whether he was dead or alive, and having been in the 114 b t of smoking for many years, she had a pipe while waiting to be admitted to her son, and thea went to him with her tobacco in her apron. She was so overcome by her feel ngs that she embraced her son, and when find ing the tobacco was gone from her apron could not think what had become of it, and was quite surprised to find herself taken into custody for giving her son tobacco. Mr, Pearce, the chief warder, said that smoking was not allowed in the prison, and in consequence of the frequency of the offence they now prosecuted. Mr. Selfe observed that if any thing could convince him of the defendant's guilt it would be the pris. , ner's ingenious defence, which was, no doubt, grossly untrue. He fined her 405., and in default committed her for 14 days. LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday. WHITEHALL, APRIL 2. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. ROBBERY AT A WATCHMAE.ER'S.—A young man, who refused his name, was charged before Mr. Cooke with steal ing a watch from the shop of Mr. Blese Gantar, watch maker, Edward-street, St. James's. From the evidence of Mr. Gantar, it appeared that on Thursday night, about 8 o'clock, the prisoner went into his shop and asked to see a silverwatch. The watch was shown to the prisoner, who then wished to see a guard. Mr. Gantar put the watch down for the purpose of getting the guard, when the prisoner snatched up the watch and bolted, but Mr. Gantar went after him and caught him with the watch in his possession. He then gave the prisoner into custody. Timberlake, 213 C, deposed to finding two duplicates re lating to watches in the prisoner's possession. In answer to Mr. Cooke, Burns, the gaoler, said he did not know the prisoner. Timberlake said he had not at present made any inquiries as to the watches the duplicates related to. Mr. Cooke said he should remand the prisoner for a week. The Queen has been graciously pleased to grant unto the Hon. and Rev William John Broderick, M.A., the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, void by the promotion of Dr. Charles John Edicott, late Dean thereof, to the see of Gloucester and Bristol. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 31. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Augustus Leopold Kuper, C 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue, until further orders, and whilst employed as Commander in Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels within the limits of the East India s ation. Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant Albert Henry Ozzard to be Quartermaster. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance which appear in the Gazette:— Frederick Clement, butcher, Clapham James Davidson, baker, Belvidere-road, Lambeth Samuel Siddal, joiner, Leeds Gilbert B. Handson, butcher, Winteringham, Lincoln Samuel Ward, hosier, Nottingham Robert Wortley, builder, Leeds John R. Brownlow, packer and presser, Bread-streel hill, City Thomas M. Swift, commercial clerk, Woodford, Essex John Uden Dale, smack master, Lowestoft Richard Cullen, coal merchant, Shepherd's-bush Samuel Comber, livery stable keeper, Worthing James Salmon, printer, Oxford William Henry Andrews, butcher, Oxford George Harris, blacksmith, Lincoln SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Reid, coal merchant, Govan, near Glasgow David Baillie, grocer, Dundee Mungo Thorburn, farmer, Channelkirk John Anderson. baker, Aberdeen Dr. John Mill's " Popular Life of the Right Hon, Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.," will be published by Messrs, Darton and Hodge in a few days. MR. EDMUND YATES'S " INVITATION S."—This very interesting and highly successful entertain ment reached its one hundredth performance on Thursday night. On Monday next, being Easter Monday, the In vitations will comprise sundry materLi changes, including an entirely new part, directed as a skit against "spirit rapping, " entitled "Twenty Minutes with a Medium," the medium being represented by Mr. Yates, the visitor by Mr. Harold Power. Also will be provided an entirely new set of seaside characters, which have been written, so we understand, by one of the very cunningest pens of Christen dom ; so that, in point of fact, Messrs. Edmund Yates and Harold Power may be said to have issued entirely new cards lof "Invitation" to their Easter friends. Far our own parts we trust we shall not be omitted from the list of the in vited, THE DEFE; (From a Correspondent of the Times.) In my last letter I mentioned that the American Govern ment was payicg peculiar attention to the military condi tion of California. The feeling which induces this care is warmly reciprocated in the State. The Governor of Cali fornia, in his Message to the Legislature at its opening on the 7th inst., alive to the importance of the subject, under the heading " Harbour Defences," recommends that "earnest representations should be made by the Legislature to the national Government for complete protection to the harbour of San Francisco ;" adding that "this is a subject the imperative importance of which needs but to be sug gested, I am sure, to commar d your active consideration," Considering that the usual " good order has generally prevailed throughout the State" for the past year, and that the same degree of good order happily continues without any probability of interruption, as his Excellency himself in effect admits, it is difficult to conceive wherein the " impe rative" necessity exists for further warlike or defensive pre parations. Looking at the extent of harbour and other de fences already existing, the conclusion which suggests itself irresistibly is that the future, and not the present, is de sired to be provided for. Let us see to what extent the defence of the country is already provided for. 1. A fort lately finished stands on the south side of the Golden Gate, as the entrance from the ocean to the Bay of San Francisco is named. This fort is four tiers in height, one of which is on a level with the sea, which it is asserted would enable the shot from its guns to hit a passing vessel "between wind and water," and drive a ball right through her, considering the narrowness of the entrance. The fort completely commands the Golden Gate and such portion of the sea outside, between the "Bar" and the entrance, as requires great care in vessels passing into and out of the harbour. It is a large, substantial structure of brick and stone, having accommodation for 2,400 men, and is now manned and occupied under strict war rules. Immediately in the rear there is a battery on an escarpment in a hill, upon which stood an old Spanish fort. This battery and the new fort mount 164 guts, and the hill affords space for an extended series of batteries to command the offing. The ordnance combines all the modern improvements and appliances of the present mode of warfare. Close to the fort there are ranges of workshops and of dwellings for soldiers, artisans, and civilians, A road runs from the fort along the beach of the bay and under a steep bank, which could be so escarped for batteries as to defend the road to San Francisco. Altogether "Fort Point" is considered a very strong position. Some of the citizens fondly say it is im pregnable, but I cannot pledge myself to this extreme con clusion. 2. At a short distance inland, on a slope facing the bay, and nearer to San Francisco, stands one of the principal barrack stations, formerly the site of the old Spanish " Presidio" or military station, and still called by that name. The " Presidio Barracks " are large, and are at pre fully occupied by both infantry and cavalry. Batteries at this point can command a large portion of the westerly and northerly arms of the Bay of San Francisco, or more cor rectly all these portions could be so commanded. 3. Alcatraz (or Bird) Island.—Within the bay, close to the city of San Francisco, and opposite to the northern por tion of the city, are the fortifications called Fort Alcatraz. The island is all rock, compo sed of hard compact s a n dstone ; its area about 35 acres; length, 1,673 feet; width 590 feet. The apex of the island is 135 feet above the level of the water. The whole of the island is fortified, encircled by three batteries en barbette. The battery facing the city, and commanding the outer and southerly portion of the bay down to the Presidio, as well as the mainland between the latter and the city, mounts 35 guns ; the battery facing the Golden Gate, and commanding the entrance to the bay down to Fort Point, mounts 16 guns ; and the battery on the northern side of the island mounts 40 guns, which command a wide range, including the whole of the northern and north eastern portions of the bay towards Sancelito (the old watering-place of Sir Francis Drake and the early navigators), Angel Island, &c, The ord nance is of the heaviest and most effective class hitherto used in fortifications, some of the guns being large colum biads, which throw shot of 1201 b. ; but, no doubt, guns of still greater calibre will soon be added, as modern improve ments may suggest. The fortifications include a shot proof guard-house, drawbridge, and appurtenances. On the crest of the island is a massive three-storied barrack or citadel, arranged (pierced) so that from every point a fire of musketry can be directed. There are also borate proof magazines and a furnace for heating cannon balls. There is deep water all round the island, and its sides in all parts are so steep and sheer (except at the pier) as to make a landing difficult. This national stronghold is represented as a position of great strength and impregnable defence. This representation it is not safe to gainsay. The position is certainly a most favourable one for offence and defence. Besides commanding the entrance of the bay and the more distant approach from the entrance to the harbour by one or two of the batteries, the passage (between the island and North Point, a portion of the city) used by vessels in enter ing and leaving the port is completely controlled, and so is the city. In short, Alcatraz fortifications command as much of the Bey of San ritweiSCO, all round the island, as their guns cover (or, in other cords, as far as their shot can reach) ; and this portion of the bay so commanded includes the magnificent haibour of San Francisco. 4. There is also an extensive garri-on at Benicia, on the upper waters of the Bay of San Francisco (Straits of Car quinez), about 35 miles from this city. The site is well chosen for the defence of the interior. It is en route to the Sacramento river and to the town of the same name, the capital of the State. Vessels of the largest class can sail or steam to Benicia. The garrison is occupied by United States troops and usually contains the ammunition and stores of the army. pmrnansen of tly• offence. Two days 5. Not far from Benicia is th e United States Nav y - y ard o n Mare Island, also in the bay. This establishment is on an enormous scale, and posse sses a dry dock and ever y necessar y convenience for building and re p airin g vessels o f the largest class. It is not yet fo rtified, but I saw it stated lately that works of defence we re to be added. The ma rines taken and parolled by Capta in Sanme the other da y a re quartered here. This imperfect description exha usts the p resent but not the prospective permanent harbour defences ; for the la s t advises from New York inform us that the Monitor, for California, will be finished and ehiPPed in sections t o S an Francisco in the month of January. She is to be set up and launched in California. Her c onsort, the Wehauk en , is claimed to be a perfect success. As I mentioned some months ago, there are three of the se Moni,ors desi g ned for this coast—one for the defence o f San Francisco, one for Oregon, and the third for Washing ton territory ; besides an where she will be stationed er iron clad frigate for the general defence of the coast, and "Preparations are being mad e for supplying all these means of defence, as they are ca lled, but some of which may on occasion be used as means ago a quantity of materiel arrive d at San Francisco from Boston for the Government- I , ooobarrels of powder-1,000 shells, four guns and carriages, 33 boxes ordnance, an d some stores which are to be stored in the dockyard in Mare bland. With all these means of defence, with " 150,000 men in the State capable of bearing arms and liable to military duty,'' of,whom " some 50,000 are armed and disciplined and ready for service," as stated IT the Governor, on the aut amity of the Adjutant General, in the message before alluded to, and confiding, as his xcellency does, in the ability of this " numerical force, if properly armed and equipped, to protect ourselves against any land force that could be brought to menace our soil," and ignoring, as he does, the United States forces stationed in the different Go vernment establishments just enumerated —taking all these means of defence into account, as well as those so soon to be added, it seems difficult for an ordinary observer to conceive in what consists the imperative necessity of further protec tion to the harbour of San Francisco, if any land force that could be brought to menace the country is all that the Go vernor is afraid of. The difficulty is cleared up, however, when we look beyond the Governor's message to the press, wbich explains the subject of preparation to be defence against some " one of the great European Powers with whom we might go to war, which, from the complication of our civil diffieulties, may during these troublous times arise at any moment." Of course, all this beating about the bush means in simple terms that a war with England is consi dered probable. Having seen what are the means of offence and defence, and what are the preparations of our neighbours, let us now take a glance of our own situation in our two colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. This will be a very easy, but not an agreeable, task. In British Columbia there is neither fortification, battery, nor a single gun—not even one to fire a salute with. There are some companies of Royal Engineers, who, with their officers, are equal in all military qualifications to any sol diers in the British army ; but there is no permanent mili tary establishment of any kind yet provided for the colony. In fact the defence of both colonies must always chiefly depend upon the navy. The Home Government has understood this from the first, and has prudently acted upon the conviction by ordering a due portion of the Pacific squadron to these colonies. The men-of-war, when not cruising—a most useful and important duty, which they sometimes perform by trips along the north coast, for colo nial objects, the chief of which is the regulation of the Indians—tendezvous in the harbour of Esquimalt close to Victoria. Until the rcc ent discoveries of iron casting and iron floating batteries, and what not that I don't at the moment remember —but say until Monitors were built — our men-of-war were sufficient in numbers and equipment for the protection of the colonies. But let us see how they stand now, since the new-fashioned ships have come into use, We have at present in Esquimalt harbour the Topaze (screw), one of the finest frigates in the navy, carrying some 700 men—full complement (she may now have about 650 to 600 men on board, besides officers), and the Devastation, paddle-wheel, also a larga ship, but whose complement of men Ido not know. Besides these two ships these are two gunboats, of the period of the Russian war, generally em ployed in the inland waters on service, but often in port, one at Esquimalt and. one at Victoria. Some time ago the Imperial Government sent out 14- guns, 32's and 68's, for the protection of Esquimalt har bour, They hays heyer been P ut in positien 3 and 40 De* (From the 2imes' Special Correspondent.) BRESLAU, MARCH 31. I subjoin another article from the Czas, illustra tive of the apparent determination of the Poles to be satisfied with no less than a full and unstained concession of the national programme. Referring to the alleged proposal of independence, the paper indulges in the following criticisms : " The situation of Europe becomes more and more depen dent upon the question of Poland. The idea of a Congress started as a baloon d' essai and framed upon the model of th e Vienna Assembly in 1815, has not prevailed with the ma jority of the powers. Not even those desirous of handling the question as an international concern, and referring it to the action of the Vienna treaties, have been able to make up their minds on this head. Another combination is fur nished by the mooted alliance between France, England, and Austria, having for its object to extort the concession of solid guarantees, and force Russia into a different course with regard to Poland and the Poles. Further news refers to the intention of the St. Petersburg Cabinet to preserve the status quo, and decline making any alterations, except an understanding has been previously established between her and the two other Powers who participated in the divi sion of Poland. That the Cologne Gazette alludes to a French proposal said to have been mado to the Ambassador of the Powers our readers have already been informed by telegram. According to the latest plan the kingdom of Poland, in its present extent and within the frontiers of Vienna , is to be recognised as an independent Sta.e in the form of a Rus sian Secundo •Geniteure. " But all these proposals fail in one important respect. They give no guarantee of darabLity. The clauses of no treaty in the world are nowadays sufficient to support a political arrangement now based upon the nature of things, and the legitimate demands, both moral and material, of the public mind. It is not enough to draw a line upon a bit of paper to settle the boundaries of contiguous States ; it is not enough to lay down a contract to define the relations between the contracting Powers ; and it is altogether in sufficient to force npan a poople a charter to secure the solidity and flourishing existence of the same. Na tionality is an airy nothing without freedom; freedorr relies for its protection upon independence; and how can independence be secured except by power ? Power, not treaties, is the only guarantee of a na tion's existence in the world. Whatever mode, then, may be adopted by Europe in restoring the nation of Poland, nothing, we aver, will ever come of it while they cannot resolve to abandon the strait-jacket arrangements of 1815. " But the hallucinations of diplomacy do not even include the independence of the Congress kingdom. The majority of the proposals advanced are content with the status quo, some little tether beiug, however, allowed f. r improve ments and gradual progress. Their only object, in point of fact, is to restore provincial self-government. Of the other parts of the Polish spoil, embodied with Russia proper, no mention has been made as yet, and sill this would have been possible enough upon the basis even of the Vienna treaties. Already Lord Ca.tlereagh, in his circular note of Jan. 12, 1815, addressed to the Powers assembled in Con gress, dilated upon the danger menacing Europe in case of Poland being merged in Russia. But for the manifest intl. bility of Russia to digest Poland, the integrity of Europe would have been invaded by her. To-day the duty devolves upon Europe of undoing the evil it created half a century ago. But, instead of setting to work boldly and determin edly, she would fain free herself from her obligation by half measures. On half measures turns all the famous and widely discussed fuss of diplomacy. " As it was not diplomacy which took the initiative in rebellion, it is not diplomacy which, alone and unaided, can decide the question of Poland. That question was forced upon Europe by the insurgents ; and it is clearly the pro gress and development of insurrection which will exercise a marked influence upon the conduct and ultimate issue of the diplomatic business. Last week Europe was under the impression of garbled news, propagated by Russian agency, and stating insurrection to flag and subside from day to day. All she might obtain for Poland then appeared as a crumb thrown to a beggar who could not take care of himself. Hence we derive the lesson that the diplomatic proposals must be regarded as the upshot of a time highly unfavour able to the Poles, and . which could not but lower their posi tion in the eyes of the world. It is just possible insurrec tion will increase within a few days. If Europe perceives her error, and finds the cause of Poland gaining strength, instead of flagging and lapsing into oblivion, as she fancied, the opinions as well as the offers of diplomacy will become far different from what they are to-day. " The cause of Poland is not only the cause of the Go vernments, but, in a higher degree, that of the peoples. From the first point of view it is a struggle only between two political Powers, those of Poland and Russia; from the second, it ought to be regarded as a moral contention, and a war between freedom and slavery. For the sympathies of the civilised world it is only indebted to its identity withthe interests of freedom and progress. This sympathy is apo • tent ally of Poland; it exercises a considerable pressure upon the Governments, supporting them at the same time in their endeavours, and stimulating them to interest them selves in our behalf. In Sweden, for instance, Government interests are at one with public opinion, and strengthened by the latter. In Italy, on the other hand, the Govern ment continues on friendly terms with Russia, while the people, animated and carried away by the impetus of feeling, cannot understand a policy which makes liberty crave the alliance of despotism. " The cause of Poland is reflected by, and connected in manifold ramifications with, the entire condition of Europe. To Poland Turkey is indebted for the prevalence of quiet in the Danubian Principalities ; Prussia for liberation from the gravest troubles ; Italy for a respite which will give her time for internal development; Denmark for safety from German intervention ; and even France for the satisfaction and pleased excitement of the public mind In the presence of the Polish question all others have ceased to exist, or I have been reduced to matters of local import. "There is no cause for surprise, then, that the question of Poland should now be passing through an introductory stage, comprised in a revival of the Vienna treaties." As will be seen from the above, the Czas, along with the National Committee, demands net only an independent Poland, but the reunion with her of Lithuania and the other " provinces" as a gua rantee of power and lasting independence. Of these disputed provinces Lithuania has been Polonized in the course of centuries, and, it is proved by abun dant evidence, wishes for no better future than can be secured in the closest alliance with the genuine Volhynis, Podolia, Kiew, and Ukraine, however, are chiefly inhabited by Ru thenians, and, both in regard to nationality and religion, more intimately attached to Russia than their former masters, the Poles. But here, too, though the country is the cradle of Russian power and faith, and had been possessed by Poland only from the middle of the 16th to the end of the last century, the nobility and upper classes generally are Poles and Roman Catholics. Prince Napoleon, says the Dztennik Poznanskt, has been challenged by Count Sigismund Wielopo ski for having insulted his father in the notorious speech delivered in the French Senate. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—This theatre has been visited by the following distinguished company since the production of " Lady Audley's Secret":—Lord Enfield, Dowager Countess of Harrington, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir B. Graham, Sir J. Lowther , D uke of Wellingt?n, Earl id e and Sefton, Countess of Fife, Prince ss M ar y of Camb tai . n James r party, Captain oust, Hon. M iss Cust, Cap M'Donald, Captain Hutchinson, Sir J. Drummond, Lady Gooch, Lord Pollington, Baron Marochetti, Captain Camp bell, Colonel De Bathe, Lord Yarborough, Colonel Caven dish, Sir T. Liddell, Hon. Mrs, Duncan, Lady Wallscourt, Marchioness of Downshire, Lord A. Paget, Earl Uxbridge, Lord Vaughan, Lord Ayle sford, Lord Clanwilliam, Coun tess of Waldgrave, Lord Cardigan, Earl of Fife, Earl of Hardwicke, &c, POETRY THAT IS NOT A DRUG.—Mr. Tenn SOU'S Poems have ju st a pp ear ed in a fifteenth edition. Y The heaviest wail ever known was taken out in th e middle of March by the Ellora to Indi a China, and th e Australian colonies. It consi s t e d o f near l y 1, box es of b o f letters i and newspapers, th ese l a tt er b e i ng unusually numerous n consequence of the reports which they con tained of the reception a n d marr i a ge of the Princess of Walea, 9n 8 101* 1 [ 2 l 231 55i 85 i 6-/ 6} i LITERATURE. Live it Down : a Story of the Light Lands. By J. C. Jeaffresor. 3 vols. Hurst and Brackett. From the very outset of his career, as a simple matter of fact and without one particle of effectu tion, the young man-of-litters who has just given to the world this very admirable novel, may be said to have resolutely taken as his guiding principle— while climbing the steep ascent of what affected scholars call " the forked hill " in quest of a literary reputation—Lon gfellow's soul-inspiring re frain of Excelsior! Virtually at the least Mr. Jeaffreson has done this. He has never flaunted the fact before us, it is true, as though it were a motto emblazoned upon a banner borne aloft like that of the pilgrim in the song. But he has acted up to it. He has , all this while, worn that motto, one might think, in secret like an amulet. And now, in penning this his latest work as a fictionist, Mr. Jeaffreson may be said to have clambered as far as the Grand Illuhts in his upward course. The summit, which he has yet to reach, is thus brought more than ever distinctly before him. Live it Down" is the truest literary work he has yet done. It is as yet the healthiest product of his imagination. He has written cleverly before, but in these three volumes,we hesitate not to assert, that he has surpassed all his former achievements. An achievement the book unquestionably is. But, beyond what it is in itself as an intellectual feat actually accomplished—it is still more valuable and interesting in its way, for inasmuch as it yields larger and larger promise of the writer's advancing, expanding, and ripening capabilities. It is for this reason simply that we allude to the altitude here attained, figuratively speaking, by the author—in his upward course as one carving out for himself a career in literature—as in a manner to be not inaptly mentioned as the Grand Mulets in the track of his ascent. Greater heights he will yet win. Of that we rest perfectly well assured. But already this is a noble one itself. From it, Mr. Jeaffreson may pause for a while to look back, with something very like a reasonable satisfaction in regard to the past, and with something very much more than a vague or half-believing hope in regard to the future —viewing thus (as he can now) the way he has already come, and the path he has yet to traverse, from a nobler standing-point than any he had pre viously attained. In these days of " sensation" romances and " sen sation" dramas, it is positively refreshing to look out again, as one may here through the fairy lattice of this story, upon a world of fiction realty having somewhat of a resemblance to the world of fact. Leaning over the sill with Mr. Jeaffreson, as he flings the casement wide in his very first chapter, we look over these "Light Lands" of his (which, by the way, are the lands of Suffolk), breathing, as we look, a wholesomer and a purer atmosphere than any we have for some time past been accustomed to. A murder there is in the tale before us —but, alas ! so there is also occasionally a murder in the world of fact. A secret again, there is, at the core of the interest of this new and enthralling story of Live it Thwn"—a secret the actual nature of which we shall still leave inscrutable to all those who, tiaving once begun the perusal of the narrative, wilt read on (we promise them) through the three volumes, breathlessly eager to find it out, up to the final moment of its revelation ! When we have said that however,we have said all—in reference to what might be erroneously sneered at, in any way, as sensational in the building up of the plot. Saving that there is this central Secret, and that there is this incidental Murder—the story is a story, almost, one might say, of everyday life: only that the " time " of it, is thrown back from the present period by one or two gene rations. How possibly the author can—by this really marvellous exercise of the imaginative faculty— have recalled so vividly to view a past, so recent and yet so remote ! the most difficult "past" of all, as it seems to us, to depict thus truthfully—just fairly passes our comprehension. Talk of Miss Braddon's bewildering familiarity with the ways and habits and idiesyncracies of stable-helps, and betting men, and the low blackguard scum and raff of a metropolis ! Talk of Mr. Anthony Trollope's amusing and amazing skill in depicting the varieties of the genus Parson, and yet again (ex ceptionally, this, in "Orley Farm") some of the lesser varieties also of the genus Commercial Traveller ! It is as nothing to that still more amusing and amazing dexterity with which Mr. Jeaffreson here depicts the social condition and habits of a country town, just exactly two generations back, at the turn of the century ! The only achievement of the like kind in any way comparable to it, that we can at this moment recall to our recollection, is the feat (somewhat of the same kind, only the retrospect is there thrown not by any means so far back) performed with admirable adroitness by Miss Evans in her "Mill on the Floss," where the little country society surrounding theTullivers is depicted with a pencil, the every touch of which seems to vivify ! The moral of Mr. Jeafferson's story of "Live it Down" is told by the title itself. And a noble, elevating, heart-strengthening moral it is. Take any ill that may befall you, under the inscrutable dis pensation of Divine providence—this is our author's argument—take any ill of this kind, in regard to which you are not, in truth, burthened with a heavy guilt : and—instead of endeavouring to hide it, to cloak it over, to ignore its exis tence, and so forth—manfully live it down ! The Hero of the Story here told, is the one who does this. Edgar Turrett by name, we are introduced to him at the commencement of the narrative as a brave, true-hearted young fellow, with the soul of a sportsman, even to the dashing length of steeple chasing ! Edgar is the nephew—well, no, the re puted nephew—of old Squire Turrett, of the manor house at Merton Piggott, in Suffolk. At that manor house, presiding over the household, is the Squire's Daughter, Edgar's cousin—well, his reputed cousin, Adelaide. The heroine of the tale, however, is not Adelaide. Strange to say, in the midst of the fax tidious inner circles of Merton Piggott Society — she (the real love-heroine of the story) appears, though herself no other than the daughter of a wealthy local trader, and, what is more, an earnest Dissenter into the bargain. Yet the dis senting tradesman's daughter wins her way, in spite of all obstacles, into the very centre of the in nermost circle of Merton Piggott society—that society being all the while as exclusive as Almacks in its exceeding regard to the punctilios of distinc tion between class and class. Caroline Broonshead —better known through the story by the familiar diminutive of Carry—is the young lady's name. And, of course, having mentioned her already as the heroine of the tale of which Edgar Turrett is the hero, it hardly remains to be added that those two young people love and are beloved, and eventually are united. Around the centra l figures in this cen lfamthese tral group at Merton Piggott,he teller story depicts other characters, whose mievr:s space enough neculiarities we hav e not left o?ree pace euomuasn a w m h o o n g i s enough to enumerate.am very few. Foremost them all, the terror awakening Barber — the c sPi these, however, we must at the least mention a d the suspicion of whose foun blackleg ac murdered;kl while upon Edgar Tur rett, t last murder rests for a long Tur rett, although Edgar,. as is eventually proved, is altogether innocent in the matter. Edgar ac egAleean cepts the i mputation as a trial from heaven— and Lives it Down ! Over the pages, by the way, that relate the story of the Doctor's little daughter Fan—a story incidental to the main narrative—we wager that more than one trickling tear will be dropped. E n at • ant, Mr. Jeaffreson ! You have won your place—by this, your latest book, " Live it Down " —you have won your place unmistakeably among contemporary Novelists. Advance yet further, if only by the same grada tions by which you have already advanced, and a lasting reputation is now visibly within your grasp. Philo-Socrates. By William _Ellis. Pp. 310. Smith, Elder, and Co. Gradually instalment by instalment, the author of " Outlines of Social Economy," has here extended beyond 300 pages his series of essays cclled " Philo- Socrates." " A Series of Papers," as the title•page says, " wherein subjects are investigated which, there is reason to believe, would have interested Socrates, and in a manner that he would not disap- prove, were he among us now, gifted with the knowledge, and familiar with the habits and doings of our times." Six shilling parts have already been issued—the one now lying before us being the sixth, and having as its distinctive title " Among theßoys/ Expenditure, Combined Action, Individual ACtiCLI, Government, Self Dlecipiine, Certainties and Pro babilities—those are tile subjects here more imme diately brought under discussion. The whole in quiry being, as any one might have conjectured from the very title, conducted conversationally ; initials, for the nonce standing for the interlocutors. One good Philo-Socrates would be safe to effect "Among the Boys," if the boys should only be for tunate enough to get him amongst them—he would make them think, and think, too, to some purpose. The Stomach. A Series of Lectures. By L. J Sir jame ßal s e Ey e r . e p w p r . ot l e o4 ; ca li pi a t r a r l is b o o n o . k upon the very subject here selected by Mr. Beale as the theme of his "Lectures." "The Stomach and its Difficulties" was the title, if we ate not much mis taken, given by Sir James to his popular little treatise upon that organ dreadfully interesting at all times to a very numerous class—the dyspeptic. It was worthy, the serio-comic treatise upon the stomach to which we are referring, of one of the ablest of the pupils of the gifted and eccentric Abernethy. There is another brief, but very clever essay upon the Stomach, by an anonymous writer facetiously calling hims:lf " A Minister of the Interior." There are several other works that we never heard of no doubt upon the same topic. Nevertheless Mr. Beale's present lectures will—no matter how many predecessors he may have had as an inquirer into the mysteries of digestion—be none the less welcome (because of those predecessors) to the anxious valitudisarian. The stomach is here both medically and morally considered, and in both instances the lecturer is well up to his theme ; de riving his knowledge, manifestly enough, not only from his researches alike in the library and the dis secting room, but from the stores of information he has acquired through his own personal observations as a medical practitioner. Experimental Essays. By Charles Tomlinson. Virtue Brothers and Co. The author of these clever little treatises has, in compiling them, followed out an excellent gene ralised idea of his own. "it I were allowed," he says, in his introduction, " to advise anyone desirous of occupying his leisure in the study of nature, I should say--' Take one single natural, object ; find out all that is known respecting it, and then try and find out something new.' " This is precisely what he has here himself done in these hundred and odd pages : his experiments being illustrated occa sionally with apt little woodcuts. Camphor and Dew are the subjects he has selected for experiment and disquisition. How agreeably and instructively in the result, any reader, who cares for these kind of philosophic inquiries, will do well to see for him self by a perusal of Mr. Tomlinson's volumette. MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES. Several of the mv,azines and periodicals having come to hand after " Magazine Day," we are con strained as usual to notice nearly the pick among them, and those even thus briefly and together. Temple Bar (tike "Once a Week" now in this par ticular), finds its chief attraction in the serial pub lication of a new story by the authoress of " Lady Audley's Secret." Miss Braddon's latest sensa tional venture, here, in 7emple Bar, being three additional chapters of "John Marchmont's Legacy." They will hardly add to her reputation. Mr. Sala's seventh "Breakfast in Bed" (rather a vulgar title) is called this month (still more vulgarly) " On the Condition of my Poor Feet." The same pro lific writer has some wellstimed recollections, in another paper, of " One Day in Denmark." Edmund Yates contributing a vivacious article entitled, " Put to the Test."— The St. James's can hardly be said now to have any notable serial at all since Albany Fonblanque's "Tangled Skein" was un ravelled and wound up. " Aubrey Marston," there is, " or, The Game of Speculation"—entire and com plete, though not a literary chrysolite. The Hermit of Belgravia, Masquerades at the Pantheon—Mary Bennett sings another of those interminable wel comes "To Alexandra"—and other contributors are, in turn, as industrious but not a jot more original. — The Sixpenny Magazine is chiefly remarkable this month for, inasmuch as it contains no less than five more chapters of " Talbot of Earn's Cliffe," and as many as six more of " The Scapegoat." Another instance of vulgarity, here, being the twelfth illustration of Popular Fallacies, absurdly entitled " A Rare Spree! What a Lark ! Such Fun." Dr. Winslow's Quarterly Psychological Journal, just published simultaneously with the April maga zines, leads off with an eminently philosophic paper "On the Nature of Volition"—a metaphysical treatise, penned by Mr. Lockhart Clarke, F.R S. Perhaps the most interesting contribution of all in Newton's London Journal of the Arts and Sciences (of which, by the way, the present issue is the "hundredth") is the notice it contains of Devey's Life of Mr. Locke, the late eminent engineer. RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right lion. Henrietta Elizabeth, Dowager Countess Granville, late of Hereford street, Park-lane, was proved in London on the 19th s u o l n t .., G b o y h we e r r , s o i‘ n i ,. p t he .: H t h o e n H. p E d r s w o a n r a d l t F s re s d w e o r r i c L n k u n e d v e e- r £16,000. Her ladyship was a daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire ; K.G., and married to the late Earl Granville, P.C., G.C.8., Ambassador Extra ordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris, who died in 1846, and had issue three sons and two daughters. Her ladyship, who died in November last, executed ethstenri't.heLoeyxdec:ltors her will in 1857, and two codicils in 1860-1. The will is signed Henrietta Elizabeth, and the codicils Harriet Granville. Her ladyship appoints her son, the present Earl, a trustee with her other son, who is the solo executor, and is heir presumptive to the earldom. Her ladyship bequeaths to her son, Earl Granville, the plate; and to her daughter, Lady Rivers, she leaves the residue of her property. This mho the London : La , t 0 1 e a na t d e o no aref Court h C i o s ra 8 o h no e sa is subject to the payment of five annuities —namely, one of £3O, two of £3O, and two of £25. These are chic left to the servants of the testatrix. The personalty was sworn under house, near Croydon, formerly of Greenhill, near The will of w a llir p . The testator Edward Loyd, and William ' A th ia e ne l h 6 airnd no Lt ro E v d ed w Im£o6enOsesOsr,ooL.oooy. LouisdT was the uncle of Lord 1 Overstone, and was formerly a banker at Manches ter and a magistrat e f or t h e county of Lancashire. His will bears date 1855, and he died on the 30th of January last, aged 83. the interest He bequeaths to his wife of £lOO,OOO Three per Cents., and absolute leg ac y o f £6,500,t 0 thP ge er with a residence and the plate and furniture; but books and pic tures at her decease he leaves to his eldest son , t o whom he has devised his freehold and other estates. To each of his sons he leaves a legacy of £lOO,OOO sterling, and to each of his daughters (for whom a prior provision has been made) a legacy of £5,000. The will of Mr. George Forbes, of Bereleigh house, Petersfield, Hants, was proved in London by the executors, Mr. James Stuart Forbes, the testator's brother, and Mr. Daniel Boys and Mr. Alex. Forbes Tweedie, of Ely-place, London. The personal property was sworn under £140,000. The testator held the office of Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex and Westminster , and was a magistrate of that city and town, also for Hants and Aberdeen. Mr. Forbes was a son of the late Sir Chas. ForbeP, and married in 1843, and had only attained tbe age of 58 when he died, in January last. His will be_ life d a te 1855, whereby be be q ueaths to his wife a and i n t er est in his estates , both real and personal, upon her decease be devises the freeholds to his eldest sou or other issue; but s hould no child attain a vested interest therein, then he devises his real estates to the second son of his brother, Sir Charles, and bequeaths his personal estate among his (testator's) children, but, in failure, then to hews and nieces; bequeathing to his sister, I,ep Katharine, and his brother, Sir Charles, each a legacy of £l,OO O , also £lOO to each of his men tom—lllustrated News. By ;et ar we )t a een. rith Ping iUra the i of ime OrSe iere, la weat pro- all all 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 S7,} 107 601 I 46 51 24t 668 I 1081 75t 94 3