The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

.'ONEY ARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is now a very active demand for ditfccuut accommodation in the open market at 4 per cent. and the inquiries at the Bank of England are also more numerous than of late. The commercial classes are now providing for their requirements in anticipation of the holidays, which, together with the necessary preparation for the 4th of the month, when, as usual, a considerable number of mercan tile securities will arrive at maturity, exercises an influence. About £35,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. _ . Messrs. Louis Cohen and Sons, the agents for the South Ittliau Railway Obligations, have notified that in consequence of the great demand for thesr obligations, they have raised the price from £9 2s. to .E 9 will pay an interest of 61 per cent per annum. The fol;owing sums have been received by Messrs Biting Brothers and Co. on account of the New Grenada Thvidk nth. :—Santa Marta, £3,468 1 la 11d; Uartagena, £700; Sabanilla, £283 19a 3a—total, £4452 11.4 2d. This sum, with £Bl5 108 received from San Juee de Cuenta on the 17th inst., already announced, makes £5,268 is 2d for the month of March. According to the Board of Trade returns, the exports of gold into the United Kingdom, during the months of January and February last, amounted to £3,x'68185. against £1,765,602 in 1862, and 12,7t , 9 762 in 1861 ; of silver the exports in the two months this year were £2,103.677, against £1.735,803 in 1862, and £2,196,724 in 1861. The imports of gold in January and February last represented £3,117,467 ; in 1862, £2,068.316; and io 1861, £1.870,413; of silver the shipments were £1 817 305 in 1863; £1,160,560 in the same period of 1862; and £1,313 916 in 1861. TW,) O'CLOCK. At Paris this day, according to Reuter's te►egram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 691. 60c. to 69f. 55c. very firm. Owing to the attractions of foreign stocks the market for the English Funds is still neglected, but although there is a paucity of business no dimi- nution is apparent of the firmness recently exhi bited by the quotations. The advance is ex ceedingly well maintained, the latest prices of Consols being 921 _a for money. 92a 1 for the account, and 921 I I for the May settlement. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are firm at 918, but Exchequer Bills are depressed at ss. to 2s. a discount. Red Sea Telegragh Annuities have been dealt in at 21 7-16. India 5 per Cent. Stock is steady at 1081 and an advance is shown in the Bonds which are quoted 149., 15s. prem. In the Foreign Market the principal movement has been a rise of fully 2 per cent. in Greek Bonds, viz., to 298 d ; ditto Coupons,l3l- to 131-1 ; Spanish Passive, to 284 29 ; ditto Certificates, to Iq4 ; Mexican, to 324 338 ; Egyptian, to 97 98 ; Italisn„ to 70a 4 ; Danish Scrip is -1 -I prem.; and the Con federate Loan 1 1 prem. ; Turkish Cousolides, 48:1, a. In the Railway Share Market th, operations have been limited, prices, however, have, in most instances, shown increased firmness. South Western and South Eastern have improved 10s. ; and L in cashire and Yorkshire 15s. The Foreign and Colonial 1113dert akiLgs generally ar , at blightly enhanced quotations. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were, in eos►e ins!ances, at improved prices. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent Annuities • null ies. 30 yrs, expire ;ith Jan., 1880 — i dtto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock .. — Ditto 5 per Cent. lOBl 1 1) ' ,•nos .i, ~.nl4 15 pm Ditto wider £l,OOO . , „ 15 pm ConAols to Account, Apt il 8. 92a Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent.... 5 dis Ditto £SOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 — Ditto Scrip, £4O paid Egyptian 7 pet Cent 9B 7 f Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins — Ditto Account 2B/ 8 i 8 91 Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account New Granada - i 'tato 2 per Cent ~.., :33 1 Dirt(' Deferred 7l 8 Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 6 Pe. ~ i u 42 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1862 .. Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 42 per Cent., 1860 9l Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent. - Ditto Account.. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 18u2 Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO2 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 591 9 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Uitto Account TWO O'CLOCK. Ilionsols, Money i)itto Account 9 Ditto May .. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, April 1 Steady, firm. Sales, 8,000 bales. No impor The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.224 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 7 8 . !oici. pur ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is n arty 2- iliths . er cent. clew er in London than in Paris. By advises tram Hamburg the price ot go;d is 4.:4 per stark. and the short exchange on London is 13.: 4 per £1 sterling. tandard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, ebout 5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg 'the comae of exchange at New York on London for bills at days,' Ni,tlit is about 171 per cent., and the premium on gol is 65 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the impor tat.on of f.tol‘i tsorn the United States. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. CARDIFF RACES.-THIS DAY. BY ELPCTRIC TELEGARPH. PRINCE OF WALES STAKES. Three ran. SHIPPING —This Day. Zingari 1 Sweet Willie Mountain Doe 3 Wednesday Morning. PLYMOIMI, . Commander d,m l a sth of The screw steam gunvess , l Vigilant, %- William 8,. Hobson, which left this port. Match for the East Luella station and incurred the B r to t, h.r starboard bulwarks, &v., when ' crossing Biscay in a heavy gale froth south-west, put into Lie Y bon on the 20th, left on the 2bth, and returned to the Sound this morning. She will r e quire repairs. When the Vig.- lant left there were no ships of war in the Tagus. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednes,iay Morning. Arrived, March 31 —Mary Catherine, from I\lanilla ; Famili-n, from Lurvig; Borneo, frJm Callao; Roseau, from St. Vincent, Arrived, April I—P-ul Frederick, from Wifloar ; Dart, Lamantan, Friends, and John, from Bruges ; Jean Bart, !rum Gravelirres ; Intrepid. from Belize . Patrons, from Brussels; rid of Providence, John and Juue, and Nor /11,011 e, iron' Du. ki? k _ . DEAL, Wednesday Mnrning. Pass,Pd—Carleton, for ; Radiant, for Mauritius; Luchana, screw steamer, and Fritnittand, for Cardiff—all from London. Her Nhijesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 have recently received costly and appropriate gifts from their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria, as souvenirs of the Exhibition. These Royal presents, which consist of many exquisite specimen• of modern, ornamental, and Fine Arts, were for mally presented to the Commissioners, on behalf of the Im perial Commissions, by M. Le NAT on the part of France, and by the Chevalier do Schwarz, on the part of Austria. At the opening of the Exhibition, in May last, his Royal Highness the Crown Prince sif Prussia, President of the Royal Prussian Commission, also presented to each of her Majesty's Commissioners beautiful specimens of the manu facture of the Royal porcelain establienraent at 13erlin. SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOok..S. Closing k Business Paid ' i Price. done. 8 8} 7 8 85 87 112 113 6& 7 40 42 13 14 86 88 107 109 49 50 46 48 24 25 I'2ol 121,1 120 122 134 136 101 103 66 (6. !108 1(8i 74 7' , 113 115 39 40 97i 971 10 1011 44 45i 1 13 13} 123 i 231 11 liP In 93 50 51 24 25 9 8 4 94 - -ti 55 56 86 87 116 118 1 1i 16 16} 11,E 14 120 122 42 44 100 104 48 50 82 34 91% 91i 67 (9 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 o 7 } P 149 151 44 5 3} p 79 81 150 260 921 2 I 28 30 43 44 36 39 99 101 SESSIONS. Cloeint Price. Rallwayg. Share 3.14. Wol., and Str. Val. a bt) I lit anti Fyne. lu BOst.,Sleat.,aun at IBristol and Exeter 1 st ICaledonian 1 5 0 ',,Core and Bandon 20 Cornwa L E O go " . A B f i c. , B , P id naon t . o ldi ai l; 5 0 Dublin & Belfast June 1 25 'Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. 1 at Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1 st Glasg. and S. Western. 1 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk t at i Ditto A stock st ! Ditto East A nglian st 1 st GreatNorthof Scotland ' st Great Northern ' at ; Do A stock st ' Do Bdo at Gt. S. an W. of Ireland ' st Great Western at Do Str Val gua. stock st Lancashire & Yorkshire at London and Blackwal' st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast at .Lon., Chat., and Dover tt Lon. & North Western at Lon. & South Western st Man., Shef., & I.lncoln 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 124 Do 5hare5........ . to Metropolitan st Midland Do New at ! Do Binning - . & Derb) 50 !Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 I Do. d shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee , t Nth. Eatern—Berwl.) 25 1 , Do, G.N.E. purchas. at Do Leeds at I Do York at i Do Carlisle at North London 1" Do New 152.16.4 North Staffordshire .. lu N. and S. W. Junction at Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stoct at Do Scut Mid. stock 1 0 Shrews. and Welchpool at Shropshire Union at South Devon at South Eastern at South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 20 Staines, Wok.,andWok. 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 i Do 25 Do New, 1860 st Taff Vale. . ....... 10 Do B to lloC Ulster 2 ,-, Do 12.10 Do st Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim st 'Waterford & Kilkenny st West Cornwall st Vv. Hartlepool Har.&R. st West Midland Oxiord, t ; Do Newpor st j Do Hereford BRITISH Pi Si VWFIV - - - 00 t !antic Az St Lawrent. , lorn.,BarodaJr.Cent In Gn. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. Nem 20 Do. E. ,hares.. 06 kuttaw nU.I La Kt . till' s (' Do. Preterunee ...• DO Buffalo,Brant,/¢Godrici 1 o p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 0 , Do. do. July 1. 187:, 00 )0. .l on. I, I - st lape l'own Dock Ser ock Eatn. Bengal g - ,u. Sp. ock h;ast Indian, gu. 5 p. 20 Do. do. G 20 Do. do. 11 do. .. ock Grand Trunk of Cans& 00 In. Ist rre . Bonds 100 Do. Lo. deferred-- , d Pro Bon s.. 100 DJ. do d fer ed...... 100 uo. 3d P ef. stock ... 100 Do. do. d I err d.... 100 Do. 4th Pref. s o k... 100 Do. do deferred...... tock Gt.lnchaPentio.gua. s p.e 20 Do. New g,ua. 5 Feld. al A Do. Januiry, 1862 )ck South.of India(Lirn ruaranteed 5 per cent. :04 lit. W. of Canada Shim , 104 1)0. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't (I.t. /0 0). 54 r,. C. do. '77-8. l 0 Indian Branch Limited :iladris guar.. 5 p. c. )C1 Do. p. c. Extensiol )ck . 11c. ZO Do. Fifth Extension. DA Al elk( Am). np. 13. But' , 5u Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay. 00 00.7 p. c. Mort,.. 20 , i).w Br unswick Can)),! lOC itjt 2 all --- limo- T.lll.C'da6 po lat pi k Scinde t Do. Delhi Do. do Du. l'uojaub at Do. Du. .• •• •• Indus. St. Fin.) all 100 i'", 1 ro 62 64 1(6 (7 bi 70 6 1( 5 11J7 116 ,(17 iO7 .48 (13 , og 1t Ito 1 1 3 19} 0 64 66 .9 51 55 57 43 •5 40 44 34 33 25 27 21 23 1061 107, 1 1 1 104 I('s 12f 3 711 la , 1 , 2 03 5 II 'IP 04 1, 5 97 98 94 6 47 49 liusinese don. 3 5 81 167 l' 8 11.5 It t't 100 108 9 8i 1071 $ Mt I $ IP 105 106 99 I(1 IOR 103 i;o1,01N 1 1 A L GOVERNMENT SEcuncri p.,Ja. 10 - 1877-S4 - D 0.6 c. Feb. & Au! 10(. 1,5 ),y Do. 6p. c. ar. & Sept too ;15 I( 7 Do. Ip. e. Jan.&July. 10' , e 7 93 97 Do. S Inscribed stock 100 06 98 - Cape G. H ope. 6 p c,107- 100 109 111 Do.Ap & Oct. 18s0 100 113 115 Do. 1149 , 114 116 - 'Do. Jan. & July, 1801.. 100 112 114 - ('eylon. 0 0v.1.431, IS p to - MslVitiUS iper Cent .. 100 111 112 - Na'a , G,v. 6 per cant.. 130 ill 112 -- N..1.1.(40v. 6 p.c. J 100 1064 1074 - ! ,o. dp. c.Ap. & OC: 100 - - S. \\'. tiov. 0 p :.,18 tou 101 102 - Do. p. to 1 . 100 1004101} do.lBBBloo 100 i 101 100; 11 - - ,New Zealand , 6 p 100 110 112 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. - sterling, 1875 lOO 104 1074 - Queensland Gov. 6p. C lOO 1 113 - .b. Aus litip.c.lB7B.& up lOO 111 113 . Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul} 100 108 110 - Do. I" 'o.n. A.n..toot. 100 1114 1114 1084 RUTTISH MINES. 2 , Uambrian Consol. Gold 1 ' id - Amalgamated..l - 20 22 - Devon G.Cons.,"lavist,l 1 520 670 - East Basksett(llloß - an .. 30 75 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. id 4p - East Caradon 1.t4.0 2 43 41 41 East Carn Brea... 3...0 94 9. - r.. !.% Russel ('Pavistk.; 7.19.0 4. 4 - , ilam.&St.AubyntGwen 14 16 - ;real South 17, 44 54 - Wheai Vor(Elelst,, , • 0 6, 7 .4renville... ....... . .16 54 54 lerod's-Foot .... . - i 46 18 iugston Downs 4.'7.0 2 2i - Lady Bertha itargaret (tiny Lelant 34 3 , 1 41arke Valley.. 04 4 tl yndy Iron Ore (Lim. 11 d - New Setun l9. 110 140 North Downs 24 3 w h iaseet(lllo 41 4 - , orth Wheal Crotty - ar Consols(St. Blazey 11 it, 6 SO Irovidence(Uny Lelni. , 10.6.'; 2 14 - iouth Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 460 410 - 3. Carn Brea (I llogan) 5.15. 11 3 4 - Wheal Fran. (thOgSn 10.1 .9 874 92k - Stray Park 5 nimarSilv.& Lead Mil, 4 1 10 Pin Croit 4 2 I 4 22i - A est Basset (Illogan I 12 13 - V Caradon (Liskeatit 5 32 34 - .Vest Seton - 'A heal Basset (Mogan 75 80 - heal Buller( ltedrut.h -t.O 85 -V heal K itty (15.Lelan I 2.0.6 - , V heal Lud ott 12.10.s 64 64 - ! , eal MaryAnutNlen i S 154 164 Wheal Seton .. i 581 245 255 • • 7 17 18 - Wheal Union 3.17 5 54 • 1,4 7 0 Trv4toNticy Wheal Union PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116 Gt.Westera (. erks & Hants Ext.), 4i per ceit. red., 991 PREFErCENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. North British (r.din., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 81 FoREIGN RAILWAYS. Sambre and Meuse, 14 f San l'au.o gua. 7 per cent., 91 West Fiandel s, 64 per cent. pt., 101 FO EIG N MINES. Don Pedr", Nor h Del Rey, PontAbaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, 13 St. John dcl Rcy (lim.), 581 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (11m.), 31. 41 JOINT-sT9CK f:AN Alliance Bank of London and Liverkool (Um.), 23 3 Australasia, 74 Bank of Egypt, 28 74 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 94 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 231 41 City, 9 i 4 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 28 London and South African, 26 t 71 National Provincial of England, new, 213 Ottoman Bank. new, 131 Provincial of Ireland. 891 South Australia, 37 Union of Australia, 52 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, 74 Nerbudda Coal and Iron, 61 6 Oriental Inland Steam (lim.), 63 l'eninsula and 0 iental Steam, new, 471 Lt.lo de Janeiro City Improvements (hm.) (£2), 31 AP, _,, An n r i is o lette r i n th e S a l ut P u b l i c o f L yons sa y s: tuent that has made some noise has just taken place at the Cafe progra . de la P or t e -St.-M ar ti n . A wr iter in the Figaro lae actor M. St, Koning, in a theatrical ar ticle, spoke of t e e e t t o i r Br•ndeau a s b e ing "enor mous." The latter m cafe two days back knock e d critic were separ ated, but la ter in cci:m L Koning at the above thdown. The actor and day M. Koning went to a restaurant where Brindeau was accustomed to dine, and there gave him a box on th e ear. The adversaries were then both take n before the commissary o f police, and will probably appear helot() one of the tribunals in a few days." A letter from Egypt by M. Marlette, states that the new Viceroy shows himself an enlightened pro tector of the arts. On the very day of his installation, m Mariette was sent for by Ismail Pacha, who informed him that he might consider as decided on the construction of a large building for a museum at Cairo. In addition to a museum of Egyptian antiquities, there will also be one of Greek articles collected in Egypt, and also an Arab museum, destined to preserve the objects now sold at Cairo—such as lamps for mosques, vases with inscriptions, articles of fur niture inlaid with mother of pearl, &o , in a word all the remnants of the old Arab civilisation, which has left bril liant traces iu Egypt. To the Museum of Cairo will also be united the Egyptian Institute, and its 'valuable Library. THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1861 POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. BO NV-STREET. POCKET-PICKING AT A BAPTIST CITAPEL,—TWO men named Baker and Bentley were charged with picking pockets. Mrs. Kelloe said, last evening she had been attending a meeting at the Keppel-street t hapel, and on leaving the building she found the prisoner Baker close by her side. Immediately after she saw him put his hand in her pocket, and she then told him he was a very bad man to attempt to rob her in a chapel. Bentley, who was close behind her in the crowd, then pushed between them, and accosting her said, " What do you mean by saying I had my hand in your pocket ?" She told him he was not the person, and that be knew it, but he became highly indignant at being sus pected of picking pockets under such circumstances. Sho persisted in her statement, and then another person who had been watching the men came up, Mr. Barton said he was an engraver, and as a great num ber of robberies had taken place as the congregation were leaving the chat el, he watched the prisoners, with whom there was another man in company. The way they carried on their operations was somewhat original. Baker went in front, and on coming near the door he made a sudden stoppap,te, which caused a block, while Bentley, who was behind, pushed the people forward in great confusion. This arrangement enabled the third man, who was in the centre of the crowd, to test the pockets of the ladies with the greatest security, and he had no doubt several robberies were then committed. On coming up with them he placed his walking-stick across the entrance, and then accused the whole of the party with robbery, which of course they denied. A Police-constable of the C division said be was watching the prisoners at the same time as the last witness, and he distinctly saw them trying tie pocke , s of the congregation. At the particular moment Baker put his hand in Mrs. Kelloe's pocket, he could not see him in consequence of the contusion made by the one man pushing the peop'e back and the other pushing forward. He knew them as bad charac ters, and he thought if time were allowed he could prove a former conviction against them. The third man escaped. The magistrate remNnded the prisoners. Bontley, as he was leavitt,g the d,ck, said, " he had no doubt a policeman would be able to prove anything he wished, as they we'rnt at all particlar." MARL BOROUGH- STREET. OBTAINING WATCHES BY FRAUD--Robert Nerris, a young man, was charged , before Mr. Tyrwhitt with ob taining some silver watches by means of a forged order from Messrs. Cox and Co., pawnbrokers and silversmiths, 43, Frith-street, Soho. Mr. Charles Cox said that on Monday last the prisoner brought an order purporting to be signed by Mr. A. Jones, manager at Mr. Longman's, seal engraver, Waterloo place, for three silver watches. He told prisoner that he had not the sort required, and he left, but in about a quar ter of an hour he returned with another order for four Geneva watches. Not liking the appearance of the order he told the prisoner that he would send them to Mr. Jones, but the prisoner said that he was told to take them with ' him, as a gentleman was waiting with Mt. Jones to see them. He then packed up the watches and gave them to the prisoner, who left, but took the precaution to send an assistant after the prisoner to see that he really went to Mr. Longman's. On the way there, however, the prisoner managed to give the assistant the slip, and on his (Mr. Cox) afterwards sending to Mr. Jones he discovered that he had never sent the prisoner for the watches. Ho then communicated with he police. Mr. William Augustus Jones, manager at Mr. Longman's, seal engraver, Waterloo-place, said neither of the orders produced were signed by him, nor by his authority, and he never sent the prisoner for the watches. The prisoner had been in Mr. Longman's employ, but was discharged in 1860 Sergeant Achison, A 1, deposed to searching the prisoner and finding upon him a watch (identified by Mr. Cox); The prisoner said he would tell the truth and said, "This is one of the watches, and the others I have pledged at different places." Prisoner said he had no questions to ask of the witnesses. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him for a welt. STEALING A. VALUABLE FIRE SCREEN.--Florent Rollens, a Belgian, was charged with stealing a beautifully Executed needlework fire screen, the property of Mr. An • till, 37, Dean-street, Soho, cabinet maker. Prisoner denied stealing the screen, and ►aid he met a man who gave him the screen to put feet to it, he (prisoner) beii.g a cabinet soaker. Pris ner was committed for trial, the evidence having been read over to him by Mr. Albert, the interpreter. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFOR,', MARCH 31. Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting graces, and conferring degrees, on the following days in the ensuing term,— viz , Wednesday, April 8, and Thursday, 23d; W-dnesday, May 13, and Friday, 22d. Candidates for degrees are required to enter their times in a book kept for that purpose, at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or be fore the day preceding the day of Congregation. CAMBRIDGE, ARCH 31. The museums and lecture-rooms, which it is proposed to erect without delay, are arranged about a quadrangular court, 138fL. from north to south, and 114 ft. from east to west, and occupy about three-fifths of the old botanic gar• den in Pembroke-street. The south front will be between 170 and 180 ft. from the street, leaving space sufficient for a future building. The general distribution of the building is as follows : _ _ _ The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and the Lown dean and Plumian Professors of Astronomy occupy the central portion of the south front; the western wing of the front, and the building on the west side of the quadrangle are allotted to the Professor of Botany, the Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, and the Professor of Mineralogy. The corresponding buildings on the east side will be occupied by the Professor of Com parative Anatomy, and by the Museum of Z ology, in close proximity to the building at present occupied by anatomy, chemistry, and botany, which will be altered for the recep• tion of human anatomy and chemistry only. It was origi nally intended to place geology on the unoccupied north side of the quadrangle, whenever it might bo required to remove it from its present position beneath the University library. At present, it is thought that it will be more con venient to place it in the large buildin r hereafter to be erected in front, together with a curator's house, and any other apartments that may be required. The space assigned to the prole: sore, respectively, has been arranged in conformity with written reports of their requirements furnished by them to the architect, and, therefore, this building will differ from all others of its class in being designed by these for• whose use it is in tended, and in securing to thq students easy access to the museums. The style employed will be Italian, but, as the funds at present in the hands of the University do not ad wit of any expenditure on architectural decoration, the architect, Mr. Salvin, was requested rather to display his skill in the perfect adaptation of the various apartments to their use. story now appearing from month to month in the Dublin University, namely, " Little Flaggs, the Almshouse Foundling," and somewhat later on a further continuation of the third book of the exhaustive memoir slowly being com piled (we have bometimes thought by Mr. Thorn bury) in regard to " Sterne and his Day." A gar rulous Octogenarian, who appears to have a well stored memory enough, discourses with no little animation upon " Old Recollections and Modern Contrasts." There is an excel;ent, and, for the most part, very judiciously discriminative omnium gatherum criticism in this number, it should be observed, weighing justly and carefully in the balance the pick of recent specimens of " Modern Novel and Romance," such as " No Name," " Bar rington," " Orley Farm," " Aurora Floyd," " East Lynne," and the "Chronicles of Carlingford." Other varied articles there are: about the most noteworthy among those not yet particularised being the very last in the number, a paper upon Niccolo Macchia- Bl zchwood's Magazine. In the absence of any distinct political article so called in Maga for April, there is a very able and readable paper on " Sir James Graham," that may stand, for the nonce, as a capital substitute for it. As a matter of course, it is aptopos to Mr. M'Cul loch Torrens' recently published biography of Sir James—a statesman of whom it has been wittily said that "he narrowly escaped being a great man!" Although assuming merely to be a criticism upon a memoir, this contribution to Ebony is a miniature memoir in itself. Of Sir James Graham's last ap pearance as a Cabinet Minister, the writer says— with how much truth all who read his remarks will very painfully remember—" When Lord Aberdeen formed his Coalition Cabinet, Sir James Graham returned to the Admiralty, where the Crimean war took him by surprise, as it did all the other mem bers of the Administration. Sir James, however, put a bold face upon the matter, and having selected Sir Charles Napier to command the worst-fcand and worst-manned fleet that ever quitted the Eng lish shores, he sent him, at the worst season of the year, to try what could be done for the destruction of Russian power in the Baltic). It was unfortu nate, both for the First Lord and for the Admiral, that the Reform Club chose to give the latter a dinner. The speeches uttered on that occasion, and especially Sir James Graham's speech, resem bled more the pre tns of victors after the strife, than the statements of men about to incur the bezerd of a campaign ; and the abortive issue of the expedition covered both with ridicule. It did more, however, than this. A bitter quarrel en sued, which was prosecuted not very decorously, sometimes in the House of Commons, sometimes through the press, and which had no other result than to damage both parties very seriously in the estimation of the public." Speaking of Sir I-mes himself as he looked towards the close of his life, the reviewer observes in one brief but sufficient, because eminently graphic sentence— " Our latest recollection of him is in church—a tall, handsome, yet shattered man, earnest in his devo tions, but bearing upon his brow the cloud which was never to be raised on this side the grave." As a morsel of light reading, very interesting of its kind, the lovers of Maga will find pleasant enough to their literary palate, the second portion of the tale called " Mrs. Clifford's Marriage." How well a work, intrinsically about as buoyant as a blue-book can be turned into a lively magazine paper, every one who cares to know may learn upon scanning the review of Sir R. Alcock's " Capital of the Tycoon"—this said review here leading off the April number of "Black wood" under the apparently affected but very lite ral title of "Sensation Diplomacy in Japan." The April number of Mega is for the most part a clus ter of criticisms. Another of these being dev, ted to an examination of " Spedding's Lite of Bacon" — a contribution likely to be more welcome to Mr. Spedding than to the Philo.opher's arch apologist —(the vindicator, before that, of Penn)—Mr.Dixon. A curious paper of its kind entitled " The Yeang-tai Mountains and Spirit Rapping in China," we are almost disposed to attribute to Mr. Oliphant. Just as we half suspect Mr_ Warren's loyal pen to have written the brief but graceful allusion to the 10th ult., with which the April number of Maga closes, under the pretty memorial heading of " Marriage Bells." There is a fifteenth instalment of Sir Bul wer Lyttoe's thoughtful, humorous, philosophic, carefully written series of Eeseys 'yclept " Caxto !liana." The twentieth Essay being "On Self Control," the twenty-first on" Tae Modern Misan thrope_" In the f rmer of these. it is interesting to Note the comments permed by the author of" Riche lieu" upon what Sir Edward regards as the as tounding evidences of a luck of self-control so often manifested by the great Cardinal. " The Inex haustible Capital" is the felicitous title accorded to Rome this month by another of Maga's reviewers. It is the title also of the contribution that thus sig. welly applies it to the Eternal City : a paper in which the critic recognises the merits of Mr. Story's " Robs di R tort." Referring to the Vexed Ques tion of the Age, the writer observes very forcibly and very truthfully : " l'eeeinee Oho Pnne. and of COTIroo *Lora io an antl fn the grand solemnities in which he is the most prominent figure; to the magnific nt funzions of the Holy Week, to witness which thousands annually fl , ck to Rome, filling to the roof every hotel and lodging-house; to gorgeous cere monials, brilliant processions, and high festivals ; to the chairing of the Pontiff and the feeding of the beggars; the washing of feet and the sounding of silver trumpets and the benediction from the balcuny, with its magnificent scenic effect, with the golden chair and the peacoc k fans, and the rest of the sumptuous and dazzling paraphernalia. All this must of course depart whenever the Italian Go vernment takes its seat at Rome, unless there should then be found some member of the college of cardinals willing to accept the Pontiff's spiritual heritage without his temporal sway, and to restrain his chair at the Vatican whilst a King of Italy thrones it at the Quirinal. The installation of a commonplace lay Government could hardly fail to dimi nish Rome's present attractions for foreigners." Referring, however. later on to the book itself, and to its author--and not to the theme of the two— Maga remarks that—" Nobody who visited the great Exhibition of 1862 will have failed to observe and admire two pieces of sculpture which the most competent critics declared to be second to none, even if they were equalled by any of those there collected together. The author of ' Roba di Roma,' the foreign and fantastical name of a very English and sensible book, might have placed upon its title page, had it so pleased him, by the author of Cleopatra' and the Lybyan Sybil,' and the ad vertisement would have been no bad one.; for every body who had admired the sculptor's beautiful statues would have been curious to see if he was as clever with the pen as he was cunning with the chisel. Mr. Story, however, was above seeking any such side-wind of popularity, and proposed allowing his literary labours to stand upon their own merits." And these, says the reviewer, they are well able to stand upon. As they are undoubtedly. The Dublin University Magazine. M. Octave Delepierre's amusing volume of " Macaronies" has again become the theme of a very entertaining paper by a magazine contributor. The criticism, interspersed with a variety of laughter-provoking extracts, leads off the "Dublin University Magazine," not inappropriately, upon All Fools' Day. For macaronies are just next door to nonsense verses—the writer of macaronies in a manner, as one may say, playing the fool with fun! Among all the specimens of macaroni() literature what can be funnier than the following by Bentley's ,Miscellany. GILBERT PBECKETT—ON THE POLKA. Qui nunc dancere vult modo, Wants to dance in the fashion 0, Discere debet—ought to know Kickere floor ouna heel and toe. One, two, three, Hop with me, Whirli r ;ig, twirligig, rapids. Polkam jungere. virgo, via ? Will you join the polka, miss ? Liberiva- most willingly, Sio agimus—then let tus try. Nunc vide, Skip with me, Whirlabout, roundabout, celere. Tuna laevs cite+, turn dextra, First to the left, and then t'other way Aspics retro in vultu, You look at her, and she looks at you, Das palmitin, Change hands, ma'am, Celere—run away—just in sham. The new serial romance of " Bella Donna" is con tinued this month to the extent of four chapters additional—scarcely yet, however, compenaatively in interest for the ab4ence any longer from the pages of the " Dablin University" of that enthral ling narrative of the " House by the Churchyard" re cently completed so very effectually by Charles de Cresseron, otherwise J. Sheridan Le Farm. A delightful paper has been suggested to the next contributor by the unwonted combination in a witty and humorous group of " Gresset, La Bruyere, and R )chefoucauld"—names sparkling like brilliants of the rarest lustre in the emblazonry of French literature. As a sturdy English contrast in every way, comes the sterling biographical com memoration immediately afterwards of the rise, genius, and career of the Great, Founder of the Railway System—" George Stephenson !" Next we have a fourth part of the other serial Fraser's Magazine, Those who have acquired a relish for the strong flavoured, racy, and vivacious fictions which have for several years past adorned, in a serial form, the pages of Fraser, will welcome eagerly the new tale commenced in this April number, and entitled " Late Laurels." As the initial instalment of the narrative we have three chapters, headed respec tively—the first, " Foreshadowing ;" the second, "La Belle Dedaigaeuse ;" the third, "Defeat." Even from these three preliminary chapters of the story, its character can be tolerably well appre mated, so to speak, in anticipation. For its purport, or tendency, is pretty plainly hinted at in the "Foreshadowing !" The heroine that is to be, can be distinctly enough recognised in Florence Vivian, otherwise "Laßelle Delaigneuse !" While as to " Defeat," there are few readers of one of the most animated among our modern schools of novel• writing but will understand very readily that it is a kind of defeat leading, in all probability, to divers unmistakable victories—per haps the victory of all most coveted by the momen tarily defeated, to wit, Mr. Erle, the hero of the tale. This temporary defeat of Mr. Erle being, as a mat ter of course to those familiar with the style of such fietione, his refusal by Florence Vivian, "Laßelle De. daigneuse." Mr. Ruskin pursues the devious, rather than the " even tenour of his way" in his thought ful but occasionally somewhat eccentric " Essays on Political Economy"—here continued in Fraser, as a sequel to papers which appeared not long ago, from month to month in the pages of the Cortzhill. From " A Chapter on Notables" we extract the following vivid little vignette sketch of one of those colonels in the Grande Armee whose memory of tt e Great Emperor survived his Downfall and his Exile as tenderly as the passionate remembrance of the dead lives on in the heart of a bereaved lover : " There was another notable who used to frequent the same cafe as ourselves. We see him still as he enters, and passes madame with a bow and a smile ; a tall, erect figure, with the cross of the Legion of Honour on his breast. His entrance creates a certain sensation, for it is known to all that he is a relic of the Grande Armee, one of those who followed Napoleon through every change of climate and fortune, till he fought his last battle at Waterloo. He takes his usual place at the little table which is always re served for him, and orders his cup of coffee and his small glass of brandy. These despatched, he is ready for a game at dominoes with any Englishman present, and if we allow him to win (which we take care to do), he is supremely happy. It is the only way I can beat you now,' he says, with a sort of triste gaiety. And then the old colonel, con tent with his victory, begins to tell us of other victories far more severely contested ; and when he comes to speak of the heroic qualities of his great leader, and the sufferings he endured in his sea-girt prison, his old eyes grow dim, and tears may be seen trickling down his withered cheeks." In this same contribution the writer is guilty of a flagrant error when he describes M. Guizot as present, side by side with Lamartine and others, when, shortly after the triumph of the Revolution of February, Mademoiselle Rachel electeifi-d the Parisians by her memorable singing of the Marseillaise. At that time M. Guizot was away in London, as unmistakeably in exile as Mr. Smith, formerly Louis Philippe, er any of the ex • King's sons. Several fragments of verse are scat tered among the prose contributions making up thi' current number of Regina. None of these howeve' are of euy partieula. April" is vuc, " Castelrovinato" another, "The mighty Three," yet another: the longest and most elaborate being a sixth portion of "Lawrence Bloemfield in Ireland," a portion descriptive, as will be found, of Lough Braccan. Besides which the best of all the metri • cal effusions in this April number of Fraser, is a most charming and me'odious translation oy Sir Edmund Head, of the last Elegy of Propertius. Half-a-dozen other contributions there are among the contents of this very varied number, one of which half-a-dozen alone, have we time or space now to particularise. This being another of those gossipping Essays which have, in a few years, built up a reputation for A.K.H.8., placing him almost upon a level as an essayist with the gifted Clerk of the Privy Council. " Concerning the Estimate of Human Beings," such is here taken as the theme or text of A.K.H. B. And pleasantly do those initials discourse about it—descanting, for example, thus upon the Pres and Cons in regard to Smith "For instance," he says, " the things counting against Smith may be these : " 1. He has a red nose. "2. He carries an extremely baggy cotton umbrella. " 3. He wears a shocking bad hat. "4. When you make any statement whatever in his hear ing, he immediately begins to prove, by argument, that your statement cannot possibly be true. 5. He says tremenduous when he means tt smendous ; and talks of a pl izenter when he means a precentor. "6. He is constantly saying ' How very curl us 1' also, ' Goodness gracious l' " Whereas the three things making in Smith's favour may be these : " 1. He has the kindest of hearts. " 2. He has the clearest of heads. "3. He is truth and honour impersonate." How the ballance is struck by A.K.H.8., in re gard to Smith, in this matter, may be conjectured rom the humorist's very way of putting his case. CARDINAL POLE. The noble cast of the cardinal's countenance, proclaiming his royal descent —his reverend air, increased by the long grey beard that descended to his waist—the benignity and sweetness of his looks—the stateliness of his deportment — all produced an indescribable effect on the spectators. Lofty of s'ature, and spare of person—the result of frequent fastings—Pole, notwithstanding the ail ments under which he laboured, carried himself erect, and ever maintained a moat dignified deport ment. To complete the picture we desire to present, it may be necessary to say that his garments were those proper to his eminent ecclesiastical rank, namely, a scarlet soutane, rocket, and short purple mantle. his silk gloves and hose were scarlet in hue, and from his broad red hat depended on either side long cords, ter,ninating in tassels of two knots each. These garments became him well, and heightened the imposing effect of his presence. " A Bruoh with the Brigands," is the alliterative title of an article by one who was an eye-witness of some of the skirmishes of the "so-called Briganti," as he designates them in another place. " Queen Dagmar, the Sea-King's Bride," is a most attractive paper at the present day. It details to us that favourite romance of the Danish people—" beloved as fable and believed as truth"—the story of Queen Dagmar. " Solitude in Crowds," by Monkshood, " The Channel Islands and their Legends," " Saunterings in Stamboul and its Suburbs," and a brief poem.on Astrolenka, entitled " A Voice from Poland," are among the other con tents of Bentley's Miscellany for April. Mr. Ainsworth's historical romance is full of in cident this month. Book 11. relates how Philip, with some four and-t wenty noble guests, dined at Arthur's Round Table, in Winchester Castle. The scene is quite in Mr. Ainsworth's favourite style. Here is a picturesque glimpse of RING AILTHIIR'S ROUND TABLE. " Mindful of his promise to the Duke of Norfolk to feast his grace at Arthur's Round Table in Wincheater Castle, Philip appointed the day before his departure for the ban quet. Twenty-four guests were invited, half of whom were English nobles, and the other half Spanish grandees. ' In the midst of the great hall of the castle, which was more than 150 feet long, and with a lofty roof of open rafters, richly sculptured, was placed - the prid of warlike years, Old Arthur's board--- in other words, the famous Round Table, at which King Arthur and his illustrious knights had often feasted. " Framed by Uter Pendragon, Arthur's royal sire, who flourished early in the sixth century, or more than twelve hundred years ago, this wondrous table was given by him to King Leodegraunce of Camelyard, who held it in high esteem. When Leodegraunce bestowed his fair daughter, the lovely but erring Guenever, upon Arthur, he sent him at the same time, as the richest present he could bestow, the royal table, causing it to be conveyed by a hundred knights, Er chanted with the gift, Arthur forthwith in stituted the order of the Round Table (the earliest military order of knighthood), and had the places appointed for himself and his twenty-four knights blessed by the Arch bishop of Canterbury. So runs the legend. But by whom soever fashioned, the Round Table was at least remarkable for antiquity in the time of Henry VIII., who had it fresh painted for use at the banque t g iven by him to the EirP t ?" ror Charles V. It still e xists, as we have already idn in mated, and is construc ted of stout oaken planks, painte parti-coloured rays, on the borders of whic awes renowned, In marks obscure, of Arthur's deathless peers. "Obscure as ata the characters, the names of Sir Tris tram, Sir Launcelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, Sir Gawaine, Sir Ector, Sir Bora, and other peerless knights, may be read upon this scroll of fame. In Cromwell's time the Round Table narrowly escaped destruction from the Parliamentary soldiers, who never list an opportunity of committing sacr ilege of some kind. They set it up as a target, and perforated it with bullets. In the centre of the board is the Tudor rose, and the sovereign's place is indi cated by a full-length portrait of Henry VIII., seated under a canopy with an ermine mantle over his shoulders, and holding the orb and sword, .4 The great hail in which the Round Table was set was hung with ancient and somewhat faded arras, representing in one place the interview of the twelve Roman knights another with a jacket, a third with a pair of trousers, anti so with Arthur, and in another the renowned British king te- on. They do not fit, these garments, but that is nothiry ceiving his sword Noalibut f rom th e L a dy of the Lake. the purpose. Appearances are disregarded. The capitalis is Five and twenty slits of armour of colossal size were p laced is to be got out into the town, guy or no guy ; and he on stands against the walls, w bile the intervals were filled got out accordingly. Ho be hav es in almost every in to as with trophies composed of shields, spears, swords , ba ttle • like a man ; that is to sty, he freely gets chunk, and axes, meets, and other weapons. The cushion of each liberally spends his money for the gratification of his new chair was embroidered in letters of gold with the name of found friends and their new-found wives. Small sums are its occupant. A curiously carved oak chair, in which bluff borrowed of him with the affability of friendship and sol the King Hal had sat, was assig ned to Phili p . On his ri g ht bonhomie of brethren in arms; and not till the young sat the Lord Chancellor, and on toe left the D u k e of Nor . di er refuses, or till his inclination to "stand a drain" can no folk. lhe place next to Gardiner was allotted to the Duke longer be stimulated, is he allowed to perceive that his com of Alva, while Norfolk's neighbour was the Duke of m e - p a nions are all the while laughing at him as an innocent, diva Celi. In this wise were the twenty-four guests dis- as a greenhorn, as a thaw-bacon. It is not an uncommon posed—English and Spanish nobles alternately." thing for uit a comrade last in more friendlyof some an the rest to leave After these and many other fes tivities in honour of the recrh m at the hands kt fema l le abcrraeihto- the Royal marriage had tak en p lace, Philip and returns neetwho to abarracks.nages to p e r l e e s e n h t n s g p o h c i rh e s t s e l o f u th ( ere next t morn- Mary made their public entry into London. A ing, penitent and apprehensive, he is forthwith placed un scene, vividly portrayed in t he g orgeous der arrest, for "stopping absent," while the ob li g in g com colouring of three ceLturies back, which will rade goes off to share the spoils of victorious Beauty. recall to many a reader the public entry Besides the foregoing, there are, in the Cornhill for only the other day of another Prince and Primes, April, a curious chapter on " Corpulence," a rapid a Royal bride and bridegroom. Qaeen Mary, " Run Th r ough the Southern States," by anEnglish the usual groups of startling "Notes on splendidly attired in cloth of gold , blezin g with officer, jewels of inestimable value, sat in a g ilt chariot, Science," a reprobation of " Oaths" and a tribute of drawn by six horses in housings of white satin admiration and sympathy to the people of Poland. embroidered with gold, ridden by pages in crimson satin ; while her Royal consort, mounted on a fiery Andulasian barb, trapped with black taffetas and silver lace, rode by her side, attended by fifty horse men in trappings of crimson velvet. Gorgeous as the spectacle may have been, we doubt if the num ber and interest of the spectators could in any way compare with that marvellous gathering of the 7th of March, which has for ever immortalised that day in the annals of London pageantry ! The chief feature, however, in this instal ment of " Cardinal Pole," is the arrival in England of the Cardinal himself as legate from the Holy Sea. Here is an apparently life-like per , rait of— Macmillan's Magazine. Although it is one of the briefest papers in the current number of " Macmillan," Dr. Hamilton's "Marginalia of Lord Macaulay" is one of the most valuable, as it is certainly also one of the most amusing. It has ieference to the marginal notes discovered in the pile of shabby books, which as recently as the Ch of March was scattered under the auctioneer's hammer, books constituting, as the advertisement intimated, very attractively a portion of Lard Macanlay'slibrary. "Whatever," says the writer, " may be the gratification of individuals in thus obtaining personal relics of our great histo rian, we cannot help regretting that some of the best materials for elucidating his own mental his tory are thus irretrievably scattered. Not only do these books threw light on his studious habits—on the heroic industry and lynx-eyed watchfulness with which he ranged over all the realms of litera ture—but they reveal the sources from which his own wondrous wealth was gathered, the nidus where many a gem was found, now speaking in ,Ais own matchless mosaic. And, with his habit of marking the day when he began and finished a volume, had they been kept together, these books might in some degree have supplied the place of a literary journal." It is a lost opportunity, how ever, that it is vain now to lament over, for it is past recovery. How "spicy"—to use a vulgarism that would have been reprobated as slang by the fine lady m other in Charles Reade's novel of " Ver y Hard Cash"—how spicy these marginal notes of Macaulay's are, at times, may be conjectured upon our quoting just one of them. It is a verdict upon the portrait of Bishop Horne—"A Nile countenance ; the face of an impudent buffoon." With all pos sible respect for the Dean of Canterbury, we would hope that that learned divine may henceforth erchew rhyming, if " Be just and fear not," is in any way to be regarded as a favoutable specimen of his rhythmical powers. The fourth line in the sub joined quatrain will be recognised as an almost exact plagiarism of the second in one of Campbell's stanzss in his poem on the Rainbow. Show thou thy light. If conscience gleam, Set not the bushel down : The smallest spark may send his beam O'er hamlet, tower, and town. Here follows Campbell's.— How glorious is thy Odle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrorred in the ocean vast A thousand fathoms down. What, possibly, Dr. Bowring can be about in writing such antiquated twaddle, as the little paper of his entitled " A Bewitched King," we cannot for the life of us conjecture. The rest of the April number of Macmillan's is very various—John Ruf fini giving three more chapters of his clever serial story, " Vincenzo, of Sunken Rocks"—the piece de resistance of David Masson's Cambridge Magazine ! Thomas Hare descants soberly upon a certain " Ideal of a Local Government for the Metropolis." Goldschmidt tells very agreeably a Danish c`oty scent '.111) Uncle and his Hou.e." While Mi s s presents us with a strange paper about a school, under the fantastic title (the paper not the cbool) of "Children of Israel." Besides which a. Servian Senator has something here to say about his own country, and Dr. Abdy something else fully =s appropriate, and still m ire impressive, under the circumstances, about Poland and the Poles. Course of the Exchange---Yesterday. A_lnstei dam I)itto It, 4 terdara .. 11 18 Antwerp .. 25 47i Brussels — 25 47 tiainburgh — 13 7i Pans Ditto N 1 arseilles Frankfort on Maine.. —.- 11 116 Vienna Trieste .. 11 45 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid adiz Leghorn • • . Milan enua Naples alermo Messina Lisbon 49 48& 52 11 WI 11 14 11 14 25 52} 25 52 13 7t 25 26 25 60 26 521 119 11 60 11 60 351 491 49 21. 60 25 ,i 25 55 25 55 25 5n 25 60 25 60 521 52i 25 60 25 60 25 621 25 65 25 E 5 52/ 53 Oporto — Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 A correspondent of the Rbats, writing from Turn on the 28th ult., says: —" People begin to say that Garibaldi is seriously indisposed. This time it is no longer his wound which occasions alarm, but the gene ral state of his health. A low fever is feared, it h said." Ma, COBDEN ON EMIGRATION.—Mr , Edward Taylor has received from Mr. Cobden the following correcting the impression that the writer had recommended emigration as a remedy for the distress ;—" Midhurst, March 28. Dear Sir, in reply to your note I can only say that I am very much puzzled to know how I could have been reported to hive expressed myself favourable to a Go vernment plan of emigration, for I have never offered an opinion on the subject. Indeed, I have not considered the question to be prat icady under consideration. In my brief communication to the tsochdale Board of Guardians I said I considered it quite useless at present to apply for a Government grant in any form, but that if at a future time such relief were afforded, I thought it would be for the purpose of removing the unemployed population to a field where they might find profitable work. It is probably this letter, in which, without speaking for myself, I merely re ported what I thought was the tendency of opinion in the house, that has given rise to the report respecting my views on the emigration question. I will not attempt to antici pate the discussion of th e su bj e ct i n a letter. The whole question of the condition of Lancashire, and a remedy for its present difficulties, will be brought before the house after the re-a&sembli v g of Parliament, when I sh/11 hope for the opportunity of giving public expression to my views; and I remain,l dear Sir, yours very truly, RICHARD COBDEN , Edward Taylor, Bab London Society. Ephemeral though the lette.r-prEss of London Society is, for the most part, it is innocent and amusing from first to last. While as an illustrated shilling periodical it is really and truly some hinß Mo; of the ombellibhments are charmingly well done—the tff.ct of each number, s a whole, being absolutely brilliant. Few will feel any surprise, however, at the fact being as we ,ere pot it quite truthfully, when it is found, as in • he April number bafore us, the " Court Number" as it is appropritely called, an artist like Edward Cor hould has contributed the first and the last picture out of a throng of beautiful illustrations : the first tieing a portrait of the Queen, the last ,)f the Princess Alice. Both most gracefully ,irawn ; and each of them an admirable ikeness. Besides these, there are in this " Court lumber" of London Boczety portraits of the Prince ind Princess of Wales side by side (very in lifferent likenesses, these), and—upon opposite pages portraits of the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark. Besides which engrav ings apropos to the late royal marriage, there are :there more or less directly associated in subject with it. There is an interesting drawing of the wedding gift from the King of Denmark to the Fair Young Bride the already famous Dagmar cross and necklace. There is a ,ketch of the interior of St. George's Chapel, at Windsor, as it appeared during the breath less interval of expectation when the Bride groom was " Waiting for the Bride." Kenny Meadows has a ridiculous little picture—full of mannerisms at every touch—and entitled, without any apparent meaning whatever, "The Sea Kings' Daughter; or, Bridal Greetings." An oddly-ima gined, boldly-drawn jumble of horses and men is the one called "My First Court Suit." While in "Going to Court—How I went," both the writer with his pen, and the artist with his pencil may be escribed as good humouredly poking fun at the Fashionablea. Good Words, Daring though the title is in its assumption, it is still not unworthy of its name. The literary contents for the most part continue to reflect honour upon t he editorial discrimination of Dr. Norman Macleod, and upon the abilities ~f his skilled and many of them eminently gifted eontributors. In this April num bwr alone there is an " Essay for Sunday Reading"-- an admirable substitute for a sermon, written by Dr. John Caird, the author of te far-famed and beautiful discourse upon " The Rehligion of Common his Life." D-. Caird's subj , , , ct in this fourt h essa y in Good Words is—with an n exquisite appropria.te niss to the season, the incident it refers to having Ti l eAlibastr pa per penned in feet immediately preceded the Passion—" Box of Ointment." There is a paper also in this r t . -- ff fi enry Rogers gives us a Coal." Dr. , number upon "The Sun "—a paper worthy . of the P s ° ra ti blts one after another the ever-lovely parable I by s s t i e r ri t; rand h n ii t 1 , i r a s t a v i i e r i o . t e D i Mr, Sohn Hollingshead, Guthrie, s le t a ii r i ne d t e d u i: s q i u n i r s , dis quisition pu as becomes so practised a man of letters, writes currents writes currente calamo and with exhilarating I s t; a t in t m a r e i ,. t a u n p . , e , n illustrated ease a gene. ine mag 'zitie tale, droll coofm"lnThenetGs'ootdb pettie, called ' Nut Above his7ustrated by John . Business." Among the illustrators of Good TVerds still we find the notable name, still we J. E. minnie. The r ecognise the notable hand of " Little Wife"—we Scotch Collier-Poet's . ode to his mean David Wingate's, of Blackwood—has quite re frain of the pretty stanzas aboutmanifestly , suggested ic . to which T. Morten—apparently makin g designonsin h lir is innie ." 1 with a blunt slate pencil—has sketched a rough but graceful embellishment. As usual,BEE ey li' ol S l C na ll o E ut tP , c P om Uß as Ll f C or A t T h lO th N. this varied varied bundle of popular literature in the cheapest form, and of the wholesomcst character. S. 0. Beeson, of 248, Strand, beidg the name and address upon each welcome serigl. Let us glance through this pile of goodly periodicals appearing in due course now upon the commencement of this present April. H.-re, then, is the 53ci sixpenny part of Beeton's Dietionary of matters appertaining to Scierce. Art, and Literature. Here is No. 4of the Boy's Penny s Atagozine. Here is No. 36 cf The Englishwom an Domestic Magazine, publish ed for sixpence. Parts XII and Xiii. of Beeton's (threepenny) Books of Home Games. One on "Whist; the other on " Whist, Loo, and Crib ba g e." Here again is part 24 (price sixpence) of The Boy's .Own Libralay!age lating, this Part, to the a Curiositis.s of b • Life." No. 4 of The Boy's Own 31 agazzn , e also price the studioas sixpence, for that small sum fgfiv_ecst , fiction, his youngster a delightful medley o crowning' 'all pric two tort', and adventure. Finally, , work, to be completed shillings, there is Part 2.0 °p re s e rvation rvation and never in 24 Parts, a Work tor, Illustrated Preae F • ending reperusal, ileeton s with (17 . ntly Bible, prin • ted in colours, and illustrated impressive eartoons by Julius Sohn° ,rr and with graceful ()rue mental initials ; bea d ing s and borderings by Noel Humphreys. 121 20i 65 1 1 108 i I 75 1141 14 fd7 101 1001 1} 14 13 12; 4 94 <I 79] 80 The United Service Magazine. An interesting and valuable political article opens the narrative apropos to " The Army and Navy Estimates." After a brief treatise upon "Navy Timber," wt accompany another contributor, without budging from our arm chair, however, upon " A Trip to Vancouver's Island and British Columbia." A passing but searching glance at " Military Studies," leeds the way next to a timely and well-reflected disquisition upon " S ations and Convict Labour." CiTital for professional contributors to the United Service, have been selected by the writers of the next two contributions, the one relating to " Military Orga nization," the other descriptive of " Greenwich Characters." Here is one of them "Mr. Cbeeseman was one of the then old school of mas ter's mates word a long pig -tail, chewed tobacco, and used plenty of stimulants. He was forty years of age I ,hould think, and had been before the mast. He had been perked into the service from a merchant ship, and kh,wing how to work the ship's reckoning, and take an altitude of the suu, had been offered the rating of master's mate. He was a 5-11, 2,04 aav about him. He had a great contempt for kid gloves and clean shirts, but he was a first-rate schooner sailor, and that virtue in those days have covered a muititude of faults." As a matter of course, at such a crisis as the pre sent in European history, the United Service could hardly remain dumb upon "The Polish Revolution and the Attitude of the Great Powers." What is here said by the monthly organ of the Army and Navy of England is —as every one might have felt sure be forehand would be the case—perfectly in keeping with all that is thought and felt upon that momentous sub ject by the English People, if not by the English Government. "A Month on tee Overland Route" is the last contribution to this April number, end ing, like its predecessors with the customary addenda, in the shape of scraps from the " Editor's Portfolio," correspondence, critical notices, and obituary—together with the usual enumeration of the Stations both of the British Army and the Royal Navy in Commission, as well as a full and authentic catalogue of the past month's Promotions arid Appointments. The Cornhill Magazsne. We cannot even now induce ourselves to regard Miss Evans' intolerably long and tedious miditoval tale about "Romola " as the serial story in the Cornhill. Although it has reached its fifty-first chapter; although it has been appearing with a dreadful persistency during many consecutive months; although it has had while so appearing always accorded to it the honour of leading off each successive number ; although it has the reputation of having won for itself at starting the noblest remu neration in " very hard cash" yet accorded by the munificence of a publisher as tribute to the fame of a living fictionist ; although (to sum up every good reason in one, embracing them all) it is the last and most elaborate production of the gifted author of " Adam Bede," the creator of Mrs. Poyser and of 80 many other inimitable originals, but that the best of them all—we can not eccept " Romola" even now as the serial in the Cornhill. And for this one all-sufficient reason, that Romola is an immense failure. Better far to us—incontestibly, to our mind, the serial of the golden-coloured magazine—is the light, sp - okling, careless, delightful story now being told from month to month, by him whom Punch dubbed so humorously in his Almanack the Author of Most of the New Novels—to wit, Anthony Trollope, here as pleasant as ever as the author of " The Small House at Allington." Mr. Crosbie, in this new instalment of the narrative, gets deeper end deeper into his love difficulties. He is—unlik t e Beverley, "two gentlemen at once"—engaged s two ladies at the same time, Lily Dale and thieevLerdly Alexandrine! Mr. Millais illustrates ver yllly so the interview—vparently so dan h g e e 7aurnamentary frivolous, between Mr. Pallise o r, e t i i lium and Lady prig, heir to the Duke ediecr t e than "March o w f „ a ciants! Can any- Dumbello, the lovely and i, yes . perhaps, let us t v h ir i i n n g ds b ,, e , a m t opr e ag e e l 4 a 6 b B or ? at e vir l y , charming paper On Alexandrines," Sicilian F.iritteS, at , page 530. From Mr. say, the Twheachkaevrea recent impression of our journal g iven a quotation now going the round of Yelready in a the new spapers.. From an excellent paper descrip tive of "Life in a Barrack," we take the following extract .With bounty-money in his pocket, the recruit has not allied his rettiment an hour before he finds himself sur rounded by friends. Tru e , when the money is gone, the friends also disappear; but 1 have heard that this result follows just as naturally amongst moa who are not soldiers, and in places which are not barracks. I doubt, however , if anywhere else the hypocrisy is so daring, or the catas trophe so sudden. There is little or no attempt to hide the spring of the deep interest your comrades take in you; it is the tap at the Royal George or the Duke of Wellington, by you to be set flowing for the entertainment of the gallant fellows who so warmly greet a new, raw comrade. Their impatience to be rcwardtd is wonderful. The recruit, it should be known, is not allowed to go into the town before he has got his regimentals, But he has already got his bounty-money (in many cases), and there it lies idly in his stupid civilian pocket. Delay is unbearable. What the regimtnt has not yet furnished in the course of public duty, his comrades hast en to lend him out of private bouovolouoo. Quo comes with a cap, mg to 5.1.0 100 100 6.13.4 100 100 100 100