The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-16 00:00:00

ffOLVERHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WROTTESLEY STAKES. 1 3 ole Star Five ran. ARRIVED—Louisa, Czarina. EGIIAIVI RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MAGNA CHARTA STAKES. Sa .neebox.. GI enstrae.. Three ran. -Z v Toisette has returned, and runs in Town Plate. NEONEY MA RKET AND GOMMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE. CI. TWO O' '.The sal es o f cotton at Liverpool yesterday CLOCK. were est imated at 5,000 bales, including 1,000 Amer-- ma I taken for export. The market was flat, with °a t change in prices. The sales comprised 4,000 Is t aerican, 100 Egyptian at 62d. to 103., 800 lu rat :it 3id. to 3d., and 100 Sea bland at 10}d. 0 1F.,. Bd. p er lb. Railway Shares were quiet. 7.L'he letters and papers from the West Indies, 'erc night by the Royal Mail Steamer La Plata, are stil mainly occupied with melancholy details of _thf ) ravages of th e ch o l era , more es p ec i a ll y i n -1.16 a rbadoes, which was most grievously afflicted wi th that scourge. The dates from the varicus isl ands come down to the close of last month. :ade and cultivation were materially affected by tl le prevailing epidemic, and in Jamaica by the sr ;amity of labourers, whose continued emigration r a numbers to Panama was the cause of much complaint and embarrassment. The destruction of Greytown on the coast of Nicaragua, bombarded by the United States sloop of war on the 13th ult., had inflicted heavy losses on the merchants of -Kingst on , who had pr o p er ty th ere t o t h e value of • 30 )000 dollars. The paper money or note panic was 'still the occasion of much inconvenience and 1 08'3 in general dealings, and the notes would on ly 33e) accepted at. various heavy rates of discount. The New York papers received by the Pacific 'steamer to the 6th inst. contain a loosely worded, but apparently certified report, that a revolution had broken out in Cuba. No particulars are given further than that General Pezuela, the governor • of the island, had issued a proclamation, imploring ' the. Population to "keep cool under the present excitement." As a strong party of creole Cubauos is known to have long existed in favour of separa tion from the metropolitan country, it is not im probable that advantage may be taken of the recent change of government and the existing troubles in Spain, to make a declaration of independence. As • a strong force of Spanish regular troops garrisoned Rava - na and other of the chief places in the island, the issue of a contest must be doubtful in the midst of a numerous slave population, unless the .American Government should interfere in favour Vf the creoles upon a compact for the substitution vDf annexation for independence. The Arctic steamer, it is stated, was to leave New York on the day the last papers are • dated, and is now therefore due, having upwards • of half a million of dollars on board. The stock market in New York had experienced a slight improvement so far as cash dealings, which was attributed to a temporary scarcity of stock, owing to the bear speculators having oversold themselves. Speculation for the fall was however still active in time bargains, and the business quo tations for account were lower than for money. The Mexican Envoy had notified the banks where the first payment of the indemnity money was lodged, which was contracted to be paid to Mexico by the Gadsden treaty, that, at the expiration of ten days, the three millions of dollars in specie so deposited, would be required. The fall business in foreign imported fabrics and products had set in favourably, and dealers from the interior had' purchased freely at fair prices. The stocks of goods on hand were reported to be far from heavy, a merchants had imported cautiously in face of the money pressure experienced for some time past. The Morning Advertiser has the following state ment on the forthcoming Turkish loan The new Turkish Loan has not yet been publicly brought out, but the capitalists are already sending in letters of subscription. The price is 80 for a 6 per cent. Stock redeemable at par in 18 years, and by annual drawings. The instalments will be 15 per cent. on allot ment, 15 per cent, one month after the issue of scrip, 20 per cent, at the end of two months, 15 per cent. at the end of three, and 15 per cent, at the end of four months. The nominal price is 2i to 3} premium, but actual dealings have taken place at 3 premium for the coming out. It is to be hoped that the offi cial notification of this loan will not be much longer delayed, or the public will be disposed to credit the rumours now in circulation that some diffi culty exists as to the guarantee proposed for the pay- Inent of interest and amortisation of the capital." From information derived from quarters entitled to credit, there is reason to believe that this state ment is entitled to belief, and that there really does exist some difficulty, although neither formi dable nor insuperable, about the guarantee pro posed of the Egyptian tribute to be assigned for payment of interest and redemption of the principal. It is believed, however, that within a day or two all the necessary arrangements will be finally and satisfact or il y concluded. An improving tendency may be noted to-day in Public securities, and without any particular fea ture, or advance in the quotations, the market has been fairly supporte d . We quote Consols 931 both for transfer and to-morrow, rather buyers. Re duced Threes, 931 to 1. Three-and-a-Quarter per C euta., 941 to Long Annuities, 4 11-16. Ex chequer-bills, large, ls. discount to 2s. premium ; Small bills, ls. to 3s. premium. Exchequer-bonds, 1 859, at 98. In Foreign Stocks a limited b us i ness i s d o i ng, and price s are without much variation. Mexican are dull at 24k, Sp an i s h 3 per C ents. at 38i to an the New Deferred at 18k, and the Committees' Certificate at 4i to 5. Dutch 21 per Cents. are Zrked 611, an d t h e 4 per Cents. 931, being stady. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61 ) - ; Mexi can, 241 to 241 9 • Peruvian, 69 t o 71 ; Di tto 3 per Cants., 51 t o 53; Portugues e 4 per C ents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 93 to 100 ; Ditto 4 per 18 Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred, to ;, Ditto 3 per Cents., 38i to 39 ; Ditto Certifi cates, 4g to 44 ; Ditto Passive, 31 to 4. In the Railway market the dealers were chiefly Occupied with the operations of pay-day on the settlement of account. Shares are in rather more favour, although they opened heavily, and prices have slightly rallied since the morning, Eastern. •Countiea declined one per cent., the dividend de clared having disappointed expectation, bein g on l y 'one-half the tate paid the preceding half-year. The 'Great Western, North-Western, and most of the 'principal lines, are still in decline upon yesterday's quotations, although with a partial recovery upon the morning's depressio n . In Mines, Joint-Stock Banks, and Land Shares very little has been done. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Oticial List. ) Finminese d one . 'Bank Stock . .. 2lO 8i 3 per Cont. R e d uce d Annuities 93g 4 3 per C en t C onsols Annuities 3i per Cent. A nnu iti es . 94A 4 $ Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 .Consols for Account 17th August ' 93i Exchequer Bills, 2id. £IOOO 2500 Small Exchequer Bonds Scrip Ditto 1859 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. kexica n 3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account 3 8 .) i Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB t ' Ditto for the Account lBl QPanish Dividends on the payable In London Committee Cert. above of Coup. not fun. 4i 5 'ltch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil ..... Gli Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Consols ... HALF•PAST TWO. 931 i „ -I:A LLOW.—Th e consumpt i ve demand of tallow, from Inc extremely high price, has fallen off 25 percent. since • the first of June last, which decrease will in all proba notty continu e th roughout the year, should hostilities be brought to a close with Russia ; but, judging from the active measures now brought against that aggressive power we may expect a speedy settlement. The home production must be reckoned to increase 20 Per cent., from the very fine ap p earance ea of the face of . the country, t h e large number of bsts and sheep known to be in the graziers' hands, and the price of the raw fat approximat ing so nearly that of the meat, induces the butchers to put aside a much greater quantity for the welter. COST OF THE CENSUS.—It appears from a Parlia mentary paper that the expenses of taking the census in 1851 were 1 25,487/. lls. ld. which sum is within the ainlunt voted by Parliament 'by 10,512/. Bs. 11d. Of these expenses, the chatge for postage was 32,355/. 9s. 11d. The cost per thoumid in 1851 was ale to. • in 1841 , 61. oN, ._ SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. FOloslng Prices yesterday. Business done this day. RAILwAye. Aberdeen.... Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Binning. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., ..... -- Myth &Tyne origina. £25 (issd. at £45 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction I )üblindtßelfastJune Dundee Perth&Aber (leen Junction Do. New East Do., (XlB E Eastern Counties. ... . Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B. Stock Do., New A. Fast Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles... Ellin.Prth & Dundee & Clyde June. Glasgow & S. Westornl Great Northern Do., A. Stock.. I)o., B. Stock.., Gt. Sth. &Wost.(lre Great Western Irish South-Eastoro f,aucaster & Carlisle Do Thirds I Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths DD., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt Loudon & Blaukwal Loud: Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright &S.Cst Loud. and N. Westu Do. Fifths Do.lo/.5h.,32,-B.„( Do. Eighths LoudonaudS. Westn. Do., £5O Do.; £4') Lndudrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch .Shef. & Linclr Do., Mau. & Lin. Un Midland Rl2s', Do. Birran g. & Derby G. West. (Ireg.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket 5i Do., Bury Extension. 19?, NTwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 7 i , Newry &Enniskillen all Newry WaiTenpoint and Rostrevor 100 'iorfolk Northn. Counties Uu, qotth British North Devon, No. 1 00., No. 2 A Deferred Do., 4 B Guaranteed 7iorth London iDo. New £lO IN.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp• stead, and City Jn ( North Staffordshire,. (North Western N. &S. Westrn. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, &: Wolverhampton Portsmouth !Scottish Ceutral !Scottish Midland Shrewsbnry & Biting. ko. L. & N. Weston, Guaranteed St (AA_ Shrewsby. & Het etli Shrewsby. & Chestei (N. I.V._ Min, ...... . Do. Halves,: G.., Do. Oswestry ... Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per cont south Devon ISouth Eastern_ :3outh Wain . 3. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do St. 10 St. 25 Staines, Wok. &Wok ';tockton & Darling Stockton & Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. £lO shares.. Do. Pref., No. 1. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny' Waterforcl&Litneriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West Loudon Wimbledn&Croydoul York Newctl..&Berw i Do. Exteusious Do. G.N.E. Purchase York& N.Alidland FOREIGN. 10 all Antwerp&Rotterdam 6 7 6id 5 3 I.lclgian Eastn. June. 1 14 20 8 Reziers to Graissessae 3i 3 d 20 2s. liombay, , Baroda, and Central Intlia,Scrip Central of Italy 20 all Charleroi & Erqueliti — 174 all Demerara 20 14 Dijon andßesancon.. • p 20 9 Dutch Rhenish 3 2i xin 20 all East Indian 2i P 24d 20 2 Do. Extension ljs all Gt. Indian Peninsul , fi d 51 20 10 Gd. Janet. of France ...p 25 10 Ord. Trunk of Cana& 6 5 100 40 Do. Debentures 7 6d 100 all Do. do . . 20 10 Gt. Central of France par — 4 p 203 all Gt.WesternofCanach, Shares l7 18 Do. Bonds (lst is.)'s7 p 203 all Hamilton & Toront o i• d— ip 100 all ,Do. 6 per cent. ••• 20 5 - Lake Coast. & Basle • 5 all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c pref — die 20 15 Luxembourg 10 10 .)o. (Railway) ..... 5 2 Do. Pref 5 3 Do. (Canal) 10 Ii Do. 6p. et. pref — ...d 20 ' 0 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran — 20 13: \ladras 3:3 4 \laria Antonia ow* 10 all Do. do. New 2(' 2 V ose .o lelbourne Dk. &Ry 20 all Namur & Liege (wit! interest) 7* 8 20 all Do. (ex interest) 16 all Northern of France 33i —33 j Do. 201. 3 p. o Bds 20 all (fray.B.& 10 all NorwegianTrankPres • 8 9 • 20 14 Paris and Lyons . , 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 all Paris and Orleans 47 49 20 all Paris and Roueu 39 41 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 314 • —31 i 20 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. —pm 104 10i Quebec & Richmond 20 all Rouen and Havre..,,. 22i —23 A 20 15 Royal Danish 1 d— 1 p 5 2 Royal Swedish — d 20 all 'Sambre and Meuse • — 84 84 ... 6 Do. 5A p. cent. Pref. 20 6 Southern of France —pm 20 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) 8i all West Flanders 3. - r. 4 xin 10 all Do 5. per c. Pref d 20 10 Western of France si 6ip 10 7 West. of Switzerland 20 2 Wiesbaden 20 15 Zealand JOINT-sToci------A.NICs MISCELLANEOUS . 40 all Aust ra l as i a,,, 83 -----• B5 40 all British Colonial B an k 5 all %Albin Coal and Iron' ... ... and Loan Company ... 25 173 kustralian Agricult 43 . 45 50 all British N. American ... 25 5 Chart& Bank of Asia id .... i; r 20 14 tistralsn.Pcific.Maii ... ... 10 8 anstraln. Royal Mail .., • ... 3i il 20 2 Clirtd. Bilk. of India, 10 4 terlin Water Works Australia, & China •.. ••• 100 25 Colonial ............ 50 40 Brit. American Land 65 70 ... .. ...... .. 5 1 3rit. di Coln. Smeltg. 100 20 Commercial of Lond. 20i __ • ••• and Reduction Co .„ 20 14 English Scottish and • 100 323 Imada BB 92 .- Au5tra1ian,..,,,,,,... 2 -- li d 5 5 - ..lrystal Palace. 5 3A Do. New....., 21k 4 2 Orystal Pal. of France ... ' 20 5 Eastern Steam,,, ... ... 25 20 ElectritTele,graph(A) 19 20 a J n oi d n e t ° S u to n c t i ::: ......-- 7 . 1 . 100 20 Loud. & Westminster .., ... 5 5( 0 ) 2 1 0 0 x d xd and b 25 all Do. (B).. ............ ••• . London 10) 35 National Provincial 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. ... ... of England ••• -- ••• 15 14 , len. Steam Navigat. ..• : 26 20 10 Do. New •• •. 20 18 u'eneral Screw Steam ... 50 z 2 ,, National of Ireland ... 20 7i, Irish Beet roo t Sugar ..„ ..• 20 all New South Wales — _ 20 10 31agdalena St. Navig. .., ' 25 all Oriental Bank of 1 all •Nat. Pat. St eam F ue l ••• ••• ••• Corporation 46 48 10 3 Netherlands Land.... i .... ii 25 5 Do. New ••• .°. ••• 2 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter. Steam Navigat. C o . ._lOO 25 Provincial of Ireland ... „., .., .. 10 all Do. New ••• --••• 1 all N. B. Australasian._ i ....... I } 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. 1 A Do. New . 43 d & Gold Imp C 0.... .., -. ... ••• .„ 20 19 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam .. _ .. 25 all South Australia 4l 43 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 411 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... ._25 all Union of Australia.. 66 68 z d 50 40 Do. ... ••• 2:' Do. New . ... 50 10 - Union of Loudon 2 all Portland Iron Co - -- 1 , --------------"--..... 1p h THE AIRDRIE R IOTS.—The number of persons now 1 all Scot. A.ustral. Invest. Si 2* 100 60 Royal Mail Steam - .. P in prison, for being connected with these riots is twenty -25 2i South Alutral.Lant 34 36 nine. A strong feeling against the Roman Catholics 1 all Submar. Telegraph --, li said that several of the pits have struck work until they .na irsa Memo IGO =l2 Phil !3o expollod.-27t0 koontl.". • __. -- - - - 100 Sf 17 all all 16 all 81s. 100 20 13 ,100 22i - 23 5 - 5.1 9 - 10 11--10 i 16i -- 174 7 -6., 95 - 97 6.3 - 63, 15i - 16. 13 - 14' - i -:- id 7 - 8 17i - 181 12A - 12$ 36 - 40 `25 - 21 67 - 69 58 - 60 25 -- 16 66 - 68 84i - 85, 65 - 67 L 25 - 127 93 - 95 70 - 7Cq 89 - 91 11 - 13 . 11 - 13 68i - 69 6g - 6i 1 . 6 . = 16.3 'il :: -9 105 - 106 104 105 - P P 1 81 - 8 - 7 I 7 - 6 iii = iii 67i 684 39 - 41, d par l 7 6 (II 3 3j I 6 - 8 45 - 50 - 3} :344 ... 354 7 9 71—i 6t b 4 .56 —' p Ad 4# 4A P 7 par 2 p 35 - 37 95 - 97 59 - 61 70 - 73 68 - 72 7i - 7i 18i -19 A 91 - 14 - 15 3i -34 kt '1 13 - 15 651 €6 356 - 36 ..• 34 - 31 - 3i 19 19i 4 5 23 - 25 5 - 6 - 7 - 75 fit 6,1(1 4 - 34 , u 56i -- 574 Agua Fria Anglo Austrin Gold Anglo Californian ... lAustralasian Australian Australian Cordillera 'Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd.D achy of) Blmnarvon Iron and Coal . ! British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at E 5 pm Do. Cocaes dr, Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobro Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo . Copper f D oG E Cet u o . no . English r f g : es 7 n t i a l e i po A i Austin. Bug e e t l :in po t ral !Do. Registered Great Polgooth . Lake Bathurst Liberty Linares Loud. S.: Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita ........ Mexic:.an&S.Americn New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do . New ,Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft ....... United Mexic an Waller ............ West Granada West Mariposa Worthing Mining opt Australia . .............. all all all all 12g. I ----7-1 ••• ••• ••• $ 1 i '.. d li 1 it ••. -t . 1 - i 7 - 9 *i - 6' 3 - 4 li - 24 26 - 28 i - 1 45 - 47 i - a i l2 52 - 57 1 - 3p li - li - i - 1 i ii - I 9 ... 10 ••• ---- • i - 6 -64 i•• i - g ••• ••• 16 - 17 29 - 31 84 - gi 4 - 5 1 - 3 3 - 3. i - i ••• -- ... i '-• i • LOO . 3 100 51 U li 2/ 2s 100 100 100 ,100 2/ 611 i i 2 11 1 i i 4 82 801 3 6342 70 691 70j 111 6V 4 8 1001 i 100 231 i i 67i i i St. 20 St. 15 5 10 St. 5 56i 5i 60 71 2 per cent. 64i 35 4i 15 8, 8 . 10 all 13.5, 24 30 20 1 40 LINES LE . 2 A.T FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Leasing Com Pans Closing Prices yesterday. Redford and Bletchley Buckgliamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. Sr Neils. Direct Do. New London & N. West. L. &N. W. Calodon... cialdonian. Glstr.& Dn. Fr Dk. & Railway Kull & Selby Do. Sharesi. Do. Shares. Lon.& Grcenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Bxtu and Matlock Aiddlesbro' & Redear Do 4t. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y.&NMI Do Do 3. Eastern Morfolk.. L.& N. A'. & Midid. itcktou & Dari ugt. &Maud.. Aidld.Bradfd Northern an,! Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds Prest. & Wyr, ti. Count, Do Do L. & N.W SzLn&YIK Do Do. A Shares. Hit. Do. Shepth. St Shef. Roth a • , c, Gooleg. 5 p.c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrst Gt North}, Unleash & Yurksh. A. MClean itockt. & Darlingt. I GtWestn. 'Aberdeen Do. No. 2, p. c. Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 50/) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5? per cent Cork &BauclQnsip.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 95 - 97 ii = id r•• '''' • EastAnglian (X3los, 6 per cent Do. (Xs)y per cent. 31 -- 4 1 13i -- 22 -- 24 1D0..(x7 17;) . 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex. tension, 5 p. c. No. ] Do. No. 2 . 110. New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent ... Do. 51., 10 nor cent. Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh- East Lancash. 6 p. cts. East awl West York shire June. Pref EdinbPrth.&Dunclet 4 per cent. Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent..., treat Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. Do. 4 p. c. Scrip Gt. N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. Southn. &Westm (Ireland) Eighths)... Do. 4 per c. Prof. Sh. Gt. %Vesta. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. c).: Do. cov. red. 4,.), P.C. p Do, con. red. 4 P. c. Db. irred. 4p.c. Lan. &York. F. £2t; Do. 6 p. c. Stock ... Leeds N. 6 p. c. No. ] Do. Quarters, 1848 . London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. e. St r Do. Convertible, 5 p. c., 1852 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Lon.&N. W., Coy. & Yuneaton London & S. Western Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler Shares Londy. & Cuuie. 511 \tan., Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1. Do. New, £lO Do. £6 garypt & Carl. 4 p. c Do. 4 per cent Do %lid. Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stock Do. 5 p. c. Eat Do. s t i per ct Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British North Staffordshire., Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do Scot. Cent., New Pref shrews. & ihrewsby. & Cheater (Nor. \V.Min), 8 p.c Do 5 per cent South bovon De. fixed, 4i per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4ipet cent. i. Yorksh . 4p. c .Guar ,Stockton and Dar- lington, 4 per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle- pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, iBs6' Waterfd.&Kilk.Bp.e. York, Neweastle,and Ben:fick,4 p.c. Pref Do York&N. MidlandH. aWI S. Purch 95 - 100 97 - 99 134 - 137 ii - 1.6 103 105 514 524 254 264 124 —13 a 23 24 2i - 2i 94 - 95 53 - GO i 34 -- iii ii ---- lid 301 - 3IA 92 - 94 PREFERENCE SHARES. 3i - Si 16 -- 118 110 - 112 .01 - 103 6 6A 98 100 90 92 91 96 id 34 136 ••• ''..... • ••• ''''. ••• 2i - 3 p 7 - 8 10 - 12 7 - 8 11 - 12 i - il) 34 —l36xd 1 id S 8 - 90 102 - 105 114 - 116 iii - 1 17 -- 18 104 -10 i 12 -- 14 #a- I p 234 -- 21 •• ••• —i~a 92 95 3i 4 1— i d MINES. Business this day. all all all all all 100 THE NEW SATIRE. Firmilian • or, the Student of Badajoz. A Spas . medic Tragedy, By T. Percy Jones. Black wood and Sons. ' Whoever wrote this " spasmodic tragedy" of Firmilian is evidently one well qualified to— " Laugh and shake in Rabethlis' easy chair." For we accept it, at once, not, as a weekly contem porary has already somewhat egregiously done, as a serious effort at the sublime, but as a sly satire on the spasmodic school of poetry rather popular of late among certain young poetasters of the present generation—in other words, as a fresh and lively illustration of the result of the " one step" beyond the sublime —into the region of the ridiculous. The truth of this, we take it, is emblazoned upon the very title-page. The author's name there given we receive without an instant's hesitation as a simple nom de plume. Nay —we are almost dis posed to reiterate our recognition of the veritable " Simon Pure" through the harlequin mask of T. Percy Jones, of Streatham—no other, let us say candidly, as we have intimated before in these columns, no other than W. Edmonstoune Aytoun, of Edinburgh. We suspected that one of the twin humorists to whom we have-been indebted so often long ago for many a hearty guffaw over the gay " Ballads of Bon Gaultier" we suspected that one of these deli g htf u l humorists had something to do with the matter now in band upon the occasion when Firmilian was first introduced to the notice of the reading public through extracts and critical commentaries, the latter half solemn, half jocose, in the May number of Blackwood's Magazine. We acknowledged our conviction plainly, almost in so many words, in The Sun of Monday evening, July the 3d, our conviction that is, that "T. P. Jones" was the alias of Aytoun, just as " Boz" was that of Dickens, or as " Drapier" was that of Swift, or as "M. A. Titmarsh" was that of Thackeray. . We are only confirmed in this belief by. reflection and after having read through the whole Fifteen Scenes, extending over 153 pages of the spasmodic tragedy of Firmi lian, now in its integrity or entirety issued in an elegant little volume from the Messrs. Blackwood's establishment. We may be mistaken, of course, in our conjecture. But we cannot for the life of us resist the notion that for this clever, humorous, satirical " poem" we have reason to thank not a T. P. Jones in the flesh, but a W. E. Aytoun in the spirit, not a new and more preposterous poet. ling of Cockaigne, but Of Mister Colt . • -He who sung who framed Of Widdico m b, th e w ild and wondrous song :" who chaunted— " How Wordsworth, battling for the laureat's wreath, Bore to the dust the terrible Fitzball How N. P. Willis, for his country's good, In complete steel, all bowie-knifed at point, Took lodgin gs i n th e Snapping Turtle's womb :"who, in his own grandiloquent L'Envoy, thus pre pares his reader for the glories of the coming tra vestie— " For you, bright•harped' Tennyson shall sing - Macaulay chaunt a more than Roman lay ; And Bulwer Lytton, Lytton Bulwer erst, Unseen amidst a metaphysic fog, Howl melancholy homage to the man ; For you once more Montgomery shall rave In all his rapt rabidity of rhyme ; Nankeon'd Cockaigne shall pipe his puny note, And our Young England's penny trumpet blow." Open Firmilian, as every book should be opened, at the beginning, and the method of its madness is at once apparent. The tragic mask is awry — an d you see at a glance underneath the wrinkling lines of laughter, the dimpling cheek, and the sparkling eye of the humorist. The motley of the droll glimmers out here and there through all the pomp of the trappings donned by the assumed tragedian. Firmilian (of course a poet) is seated (of course in his study) reading—meditating a caracolle upon the back of poor old hackneyed Pegasus, whereby " to witch the world with noble horsemanship !" Preparing, that is to say, for the production of a poetic masterpiece such as shall [hear him, as he himself describes it !] • . recreate stupendous harmonies, Moro grand in diapason than the roll Among the mountains of the thunder-psalm." It is a favourite trick, this, of the Young Poets of the Now—not, we may well believe, of the Here after ! Well, Firmilian, like so many brothers of the lyre his contemporaries, aspires to write this grand poem so: often dreamt of of late, as he him self represents it— " To make his song a trumpet, and to shake The earth to its foundations." He selects, as the fitting theme for the revelation of his genius —CAIN—ignorin g the existence, to be sure, of a mere trifle upon the same subject like Lord Byron's " Mystery. ' But—here is the diffi culty recognised by the student of Badajoz on the instant. How befittingly describe the Remorse of Cain without having first had experience of remorse oneself? " Aye, there's the rub." Firmilian asks himself—plump—in a single line, pregnant with crimes to come by way of answer, this some what startling question— . " What do I know as yet of homicide?" His reply is no less tersely expressed, prompt, and sententious— "Nothing." Doubtless, however, the words "as yet" have entered hi s m i n d as a consolation. " What do I know as yet of homi cide 1" He may compensate by the Future for any Past and Present deficiency. He may still make up for lost time. His resolve - is taken—to do so ! Through homicide he may be enabled at length to realise remorse—and, having realised it, he may write becomingly the biblical tragedy Of Cain. Having recognised this, he naturally enough puts an end to all his doubts by declaring simply —" It is resolved." First, however, for something to inspirit him for the speedily carrying out his determination. "" A draught o f w i ne ! (Drinks.) Ha ! this revives me !" A melodramatic proceeding something kindred to that of_ M r . Ri c h ard Sw i ve ll er , w h en, " leaning his l e ft arm heavily upon the table and raisin g hi s vo i ce and his right leg after the manner of a theatrical bandit," he inquired "The Baron Sampsono Brasso and his fair sister are, (you tell me) at the Play ?" Or rather still more resem bling Mr. Swi ve ll er ' s b ehaviour directly after wards, when exclaiming, "'Ha ! 'Tis well. But no matter. S ome w i ne there. Ho !' he illustrated these melodramatic morsels by handing the tan kard to hi mse lf w i t h great humility; receiving it haughtily, drinking from it thirstily, and smacking new indicating his lips fiercely." As the historian takes occasion to inform us there and then —much to the amaze mentFi effectsr n i / i o a f n . the p ßefreshed otatie n, Student of Badajoz thus ex How thrievanle of the Marchioness. However, to return to presses at winning Remorse through aa t nr h tt r h o e u : g un h n t a h l a l Itl i f thekstse ta j o,Pyd beside by his draught of wine, the efficacy in adding , and to give the the rapturous close its s , force to his resolve, about Thou purple-lipped L weight of arrnoulu3 my frame ! There's not a god L T I A n o i : Of the Olympian revel The foaming cups to Liebe— Neptune, and fi n s heels, Y aa ti vi s ' ere A i n G d a t n h y ou m 'r e t de st , rong To see thee trip up iron Ville, how, ircles il l rn I'd laugh b h u i l s ly b i a n e g k, Mars, Prostrate withallh o i l s d w N e IF a h r o f a . On enly floor ! Down with a clatter on th e Not Jove himself dare risk ll with thee, of Lo, 1 ( I r . Ley sou rik aai l i, grows firm, Who is it to be ? His be- L AA o sn r l d ht of the wthheieezth venom panthers venoms ec ! It is resolved ! Come, th en , ray y st ve.i Thou raven-mother,—come and emus Guilt, With thy black beverage." fill my cup His betrothed in inevitable sequ ence, the inquiry— “ Then ßu t cotmhees; i . ctiin e loved ?—Lilian. [Both, observe ! slyly - the " naoated grange."?-111ariana—of One beauty ?—lndiana. afte r minding one of Tennysonian maidens. 1161.2nother these His re talorienas victims, y afford him remorse sufficiently poignant--for his . purpose. r d e e j s e t e r t u ed eti ( o f n or of th w e h p om re . s w en o t ul a d t scarcei_ at length upon killin o • b - .0 -- y poison infused into the wine cups at a say,indicates a l l eul for g the first gaY supper that evenina—his three intimate resolves areH thet the sensual, friends and fellow-students, Garcia p ers onalerez Alphonso D'Aguilar, and Alonzo Oliyarez. T-11 --kis project is pronounced carried out, after a squabble about the sensuous, or rather, e egree e julliP c o h e a tr r y in hy of an a upon time— and we rejoice to note also for the only time—his should tiFieircmojuiirasne right to his humorously affected position as a repre outburst of gross and exaggerated pruriency, The passage is absolutely revolting, from its rank volup sentative of the Spasmodic School of tuousness. Reverting to the plot—the deed is, as we have said, done, and done, too, most effectively, but not by any means effectually. Th e first crime is committed—Perez, D'Aguilar and Olivarez are poisoned, dead, even interred—but, al as ! there is no remorse afterwards for Firmiliau. His earliest adventure has failed deplorably. H e must try again —attempt_ some crime of larger and deadlier atrocity. A hint is happily taken from a conver sation overheard by the Student of Badajoz—a dialogue between a Graduate and a Priest in the cloisters. The result of this hint, and of Firmiliaies after meditation over it, is magnificent. He turns Guy Fawkes on a colossal scale—blows up a whole cathedral, with its priests and its c ongregation. Listen ! Th e scene is the " exterior of the Cathe dral of St. Nicholas—Choir heard chauntin r, a 'WI . th - in." Enter Firmiliall : " How darkly hangs yon cloud above the spire ; There's thunder in the air— What if the flash Should rend the solid walls, and reach the 'fault Where my terrestrial thunder lies prepared, 41 4 no, withat octio E 27 Jamul, P lip 131 Whirl up those thousand bigots in its blaze, ve A petty larceny o' the element, ng nd I I T PLAYLAA o ienesenne‘ ttta o ‘rdAalett l Tun c hihi l tineghehete l lauarirvhitn r ktmeeeo i hgwdeocanm3tnctrelloths,riegeemeeonahmg:nleatuhoipdtnalusvel by starsl xltid:eeyssel thunder sesdysr w lthh:ther h orimasfeeoall i aki. p aslie ttPlatit e whci nnhhd r :ar i :wsei n timrnnfv g ahryrtrgliaeloi h ntiuoirtig ; o ftl g l hhmi n deoeeha d infisedrtk ; iha:o — rled7: a heaven, boughs, t r c But let the glory of this dead be mine ! ORGAN and CHOIR. Sublimatus ad honorem Nicholai presulis: Pietatis ante roretu Cunctis pluit populis : llt vix parena aut majorem Habeat in seculis. FIR IIILI AN. Yet I weep to hear the wretches sing ! There rolls the organ anthem down the aisle, And thousand voices join in its acclaim. All they are happy—they are on their knees ; Round and above them stare the images Of antique saints and martyrs. Censers steam With their Arabian charge of frankincense, And every heart, with inward fingers, counts A blissful rosary of pious prayer !' And so the scene advances with the alternate reveries of the Poet-Student and snatches of Psalmody from the Organ and Choir within the Cathedral—until the event arrives at its denoue ment. Firmilian has been wavering somewhat in his design, when he thus breaks from his previous doubtings and bewilderment : " I must be resolute. Lose this one chance, Which bears me to th' Acropolis of guilt, And this, our age, foregoes its noblest song. I must be speedy — ORGAN and CHOIR. A defunctis suscitatur Forturn qui commiserat : Et Judmus baptizatur Furtum qui recuperat : Illi vita restauratur, Hie ad fidem properat. FIR3IILIAN. No more was needed to confirm my mind ! That stanza blows all thoughts of pity off, As empty s'zaws are scattered by the wind ! For I have. been the victim of the Jews, Who, by v i le barter, have absorbed my means. Did I not pawn—for that same flagrant stuff, Which only waits a spark to be dissolved, And, having done its mission, must disperse As a thin smoke into the ambient air— My diamond cross, my goblet, and my books? What ! would they venture to baptise the Jew? The cause assumes a holier aspect, then; And, as a faithful son of Rome, I dare To merge my darling passion in the wrong That is projected against Christendom ! Pity, avaunt ! I may not longer stay. [Exit into the vaults. A short pause. After which he re-appears.] This done ! I vanish like the lightning bolt. ORGAN and mom. Nicholai sacerdotum Decus, honor, filoria : Plebem omnem, clerum totum— [The Cathedral is blown up.]" An episode, coming directly afterwards, one relating the death of a covetous Confessor crushed under the blows of a ponderous mace, wielded by the armed effigy of the Cid, at the end of a sub terranean gallery—although indirectly another of th'e crimes of Firmilian—demands nothing more than a passing mention in the presence of his more stupendous and more heinous blood-guilti ness. We follow him to the spot from which he has himself witnessed the blowing-up of the cathedral —the summit of the Pillar of Simeon St. Stylites. [Another sly Tennysonian reminiscence, observe Firmilian loquitur " 'Twas a grand spectacle ! The solid earth Seemed from its quaking entrails to eruct The gathered lava of a thousand years, Like an inaposthume bursting up from hell ! In a red robe of flame, the riven towers, Pillars and altar, organ loft and screen, With a singed swarm of mortals intermixed, Were whirled in anguish to the shuddering stars, And all creation trembled at the din. It was my doing—mine alone ! and I Stand greater b ' this deed than the vain fool That thrust hi s torch beneath Diana's shrine. For what was it inspired Erostratus But a weak vanity to have his name Blaze out for arson in the cataloune? And yet—and yet—what boots the sacrifice ?' Another failure ! The colossal homicide—the ho micide colossal in guilt, perched up on the top of St. Simeon's column, discoVers that in his last effort to gain remorse ho has been too wholesale. What were these victims, he asks, who had gone soaring up to heaven among the fragments of the exploited cathedral? " Nothing ! Mere human atoms, breathing clods, Uninspired dullards, unpoetic slaves, The rag, and tag, and bobtail of mankind ; Whom having scorched to cinders, I no more Feel ruth for what I did, than if my hand Had thrust a stick of sulphur in the nest Of some poor hive of droning humble-bees, And smoked them into silence." He is still lamenting over the blunder of his late adventure, when, according to his own appoint ment, there comes panting and toiling up the spiral staircase inside the Pillar, up to the narrow and unguarded surface of its summit, Haverillo, an other student and poet of Badajoz, the friend of Firmilian, one who has lent Firmilian much money, and whose kindly fellowship in many things would seen). to promise advantageously consider able remorse as the result of a cold-blooded assassination. Firmilian is resolved to avail himself of so tempting an opportunity. It were needless to give the whole scene during the earlier part of which the horrid purpose of his friend gradually dawns upon the knowledge of Haverillo. Its close, however, is too rich altogether to pass unquoted. Haverillo has at last cried out— " Madman, stand off r— to which Firmilian responds— " There's but four feet of spaoo To spare between us. I'm not hasty, I ! Swans sing before their death, and it may be That dying poets feel that impulse to Then, prythee, be canorous. You may sing One of those ditties which have won you gold, And my meek audience of the vapid strain Shall count with Phoebus a full discharge For all the ducats. Will you not begin ? HAVERILLO. Leave off this horrid jest, Firmilian ! FIRMILIAN. Jest ! 'Tis no jest ! This pillar's very high--- Shout, and no one can hear you from the square— Wilt sing, I say ? HAVERILLO. Listen, Firrnilian ! I have a third edition in the press, Whereof the proceeds shall be wholly thine— Spare me ! FIRMILLIN. A third edition ! Atropos— Forgive me that 1 tat ried ! IiA.VEMLLO. Mercy !--Ah ! FIRMILIAN hurls hint from the column.]'' The result of which is absolutely delicious in its extravagance, beyond the death of Haverillo, that of the critic Apollodorus. The mea n i ng of the satirist being more within the reach of general ap preciation, we would conjecture supposing we were to print the name of the last mentioned per sonage somewhat differently, calling him not " Apollodorus the Critic," but 'The Critic " Apol lodorus." He has been meditating in the Square below the Pillar, this same ill-starred Apollodorus, brooding over the thoughts consequent, upon his first inquiry— " Why do men call me a presumptuous cur, A vepouring blockhead, and a turgid fool, A common nuis Luce, and a charlatan ?" When [we cannot apologise for the length of our quotation]— Enter SANCHO, a Costcrnwnger, singing. Down i❑ the garden behind the wall, Merrily grows the bright-green leek; The old sow grunts as the acorns fall, The winds blow heavy, the little pigs squeak. One for the litter, and three for the teat— Hark to the music, Juanna my sweat ! APOLLODORUS. Now, heaven be thanked ! here is a genuine bard, A creature of high impulse, one unsoiled By coarse conventionalities of rule. He labours not to sing, for his bright thoughts Resolve themselves at once into a strain Without the aid of balanced artifice. All hail, great poet ! SANCIIO. Save you, my merry master ! Need you any leeks or onions? Here's the primest cauliflower, though I say it, in all Badajoz. Sot it up at a distance of some ten yards, and I'll forfeit my ass if it does not look bigger than the Alcayde's wig. Or would those radishes suit your turn t There's notbing like your radish for cooling the blood and purging distempered humours. APOLLODORUS. I do admire thy vegetables much, But will not buy them. Pray you, pardon me For one stiort word of friendly obloquy. Is't possible a being so endowed With music, song, and sun-aspiring thoughts, Can stoop to chaffer idly in the streets, And, for a huckster's miserable gain, Renounce the urgings of his destiny ? Why, man, thine ass should be a Pegasus,' A sun-roared charger snorting at the stars, And scattering all the Pleiads at his heels — Thy cart should be an orient-tinted car, Such as Aurora drives into the day, What time the rosy-fingered Hours awake — Thy reins— SANCHO. Lookye, master, I've dusted a better jacket than you rs before now, so you had best keep a civil tongue in your head. Once for all, will you buy my raduhes? AVOLLOLORIJS. No! SANCIIO. Then go to the devil and iaake yourself ! [Exit. APOLLODORUS. The foul fiend seize thee and thy cauliflowers ! I was indeed a most egregious ass To take this lubber clodpole for a bard, Aud worship that dull fool. Pythias Apollo Hear me -0 hear ! Towards the ffnnament I gaze with longing e y es ; and, in th ® name Of millions th irsting for poetic draughts, I do !mooch thee, 'mad a poet dm Let him descend, E'en as a meteor falls, Rushing at noonday — Vie is crushed by the fall of the body of HAVEBILLO. Is not this, wo may ask, full justification of what we have said about this scene's delicious extrava gance ? The one which occurs soon afterwards, the garden scene where Mariana as the rose, Lilian bathe lily, and Indiana as the night-stock, are introduced to each other by Firmilian (to their mutual indig nation), we might be tempted to quote from in like manner, but that the length to which our remarks upon this spasmodic tragedy have already extended warps us to draw our comments as speedily as may be to a conclusion, though not, let us admit, with ' out reluctance. Not without reluctance, fain as we are to linger over a production the perusal of which has afforded us so much genuine pleasure and novel satisfaction. Never, perhaps, was a satire penned with more rollicking abandon than Firmilian. This the nature of the incidents already mentioned will have sufficiently indi cated. It is revealed yet more, as by a sort of climax of extrava gance i n the closing scene by Night, in the midst of Fog and Mist, upon a Barren Moor near Badajoz, where Firmilian, the hero, is perceived through the " darkness visible" flying, in a tardy remorse for his crimes, from the p ursu it of the avengin g F am ili ars of? the Inquisition. Everything in this description is so wondrously good, as constituting a burlesque " tail piece" to the whole performance, that we can by no means refrain from giving it verbatim from the point where the Student of Badajoz exclaims, while pausing for a moment in the foggy wilderness— Where am I ? If my mind deceives me not, Upon that common where, two years ago, Au old blind beggar came and craved an alms, Thereby destroying a stupendous thought Just bursting in my mind—a glorious bud Of poesy, but blasted ere its bkvom ! I bade the old fool take the leftward path, Which leads to the deep quarry, where he fell-- At least I deem so, for I heard a splash— But as I was gazing on the gibbous moon, And durst not lower my celestial flight To care for such an insect-worm as he ! How cold it is ! The mist comes thicker on. Ha !—What is that ? I see around me lights Dancing and flatting, yet they do not seem Like torches either - and there's music too ! I'll pause and listen. Chorus of IGNUS Flan. Follow, follow, follow ! Over hill and over hollow ; It is ours to lead the way, When a sinner's footsteps stray — Cheering him with light and song, On his doubtful path along. Hark, hark ! The watch-dog bark. There's a cra , h, and a splash, and a blind man's cry, But the Poet looks tranquilly up at the sky ! FIRMILIAN. Is it the echo of an inward voice, Or spirit-words that make my flesh to creep, And send the cold blood choking to my heart ? I'll shift my ground a little— Chorus of JONES FATUI. Flicker, flicker, flicker ! Quicker still, and quicker. Four young men sate down to dine, And still they passed the rosy wine; Pure was the cask, but in the flask There lay a certain deadly powder Ha ! his heart is beating louder ! Ere the day had passed away, Gracia Perez lifeless lay ! Hark ! his mother wails Alphonzo, Never more shall strong Alonzo Drink the wine of Ildefronso. FIRMILIAN. O horror ! horror ! 'twas by me they died; I'll move yet farther on— Chorus of IGNES FATUI. In the vaults under Bursts the red thunder ; Up goes the cathedral, Priest, people, and bedral ! Ho ! ho! ho ! ho ! FIRMILIAN. My brain is whirling like a potter's wheel ! O Nemesis ! Chorus of IGNES FATUI. The Muses sing in their charm'd ring, And Appolo weeps fur him who sleeps, Alas ! on a hard and a stony pillow— Haverillo ! Haverillo I _ FIEMILIAN. I shall go mad ! Chorus of IGNES PAWL Give him some respite—give him some praise— One good deed he has done in his days ; Chaunt it, ant sing it, and tell it in chorus — He has flattened the cockscomb of Apollorous ! FIRMILIAN. Shall comfort that ! The death of a shard-beetle, Albeit the poorest and the paltriest thing That crawls round refuse, cannot weigh a grain Against the pondrous avalanche of guilt That hangs above me ! ome miserable ! I'll grope my wuy yet further. Chorus of IGNES Firmilian ! Firmilian ! What have you done to Lilian? There's a cry from the grotto, a sob by the stream, A woman's loud wailing, a little babe's scream ! How fared it with Lilian, In the pavilion, Firmilian, Firmilian ! FIRMILIAN. Horror ! I'm lost ! Chorus of IGNES FATUI. Ho ! ho ! ho ! Deep in the snow Lies a black maiden from Africa's shore 1 Hasten and shake her— You never shall wake her— She'll roam through the glens of the Atlas no more Stay, stay, stay ! This way—this way— There's a pit before, and a pit behind, And the seeing man walks in the path of the blind ! [FIRMILIAN fags into the quarry. The IGNES FAvur dance as the curtain descends. Terminating after this fashion, most appropriately, amidst fog, and mist, and the dancing of ignes fatui, the spasmodic tragedy of Firmilian. It must not, however, be conjectured for a moment by those who have not yet read Firmilian, that it has no real beauties mingled with its burlesque—nothing ex quisite amidst the intended bombast and rhodomon tade of its extravagance. Any one may see through all the roystering humour of the satire, that the writer of the book is one who can appreciate true poetry, and recognise with his own eyes and love with his whole heart—the Beautiful. The Poet we may detect through the Satirist, for example, in a passage like that in which Firmilian apostro phises himself (p. 64) as— " . . . thou, whose mission 'tie To send vibration down the chord of time, Unto its junction with eternity." May we not perceive some glimpses, too, of the fas tidious taste of a not unripened scholarship where our author (under the name of T. P. Jones), talking of the dirty paths to learning trodden oven by our childreu—says That hog of Epicurus' sty, • • • The sensuous Horace ushers them along To rancid Ovid. He prepares the way For loose Catullus, whose voluptuous strain Is soon dismissed for coarser Juvenal." And so on through a catalogue of prurient classics, down "to the rank filth of Aristophanes." The satiric power shown by the author of Firmihan may, even now, after all we have here observed upon it, be rendered yet more obvious by three remarkable quotations. Quotations, through which will be recognised clearly enough three of the writer's immediate contemporaries. Foremost among them comes one already mentioned—the Critic Apollodorus. Is it not just possible that under this fantastic semblance may be discerned ? MR. GILFILLAN. I've dashed into the sea of metaphor I With as strong paddles as the sturdiest ship That churns Meduso3 into liquid light, And hashed at every object in my way. My ends are public. I have talked of men As my familiars, whom I never saw. Nay—more to raise my credit—l have penned Epistles to the great ones of the laud, When some attack might make them slightly sore, Assuring them, in faith, it was not I. What was their answer? Marry, shortly this : " Who, in the name of Zernebock, aro you ?" I have reviewed myself incessantly — Yea, made a contract with a kindred soul For mutual interchange of puffery. Gods—how we blew each other ! But, 'tis past— Those halcyon days are gone ; and, I suspect, That, in some fit of loathing or disgust, As Samuel turned from Eli's coarser son, Mine ancient playmate bath deserted me. And yet I am Apollodorus still ! I search for genius, having it myself, With keen and earnest longings. I survive To disentangle, from the imping wings Of our young poets, their crustaceous slough. I watch them, as the watcher on the brook Sees the young salmon wrestling from its egg, And revels in its future bright career. Ha! what seraphic melody is this ? Whereupon, as we have before seen, enters Sancho, a c osternionger. The sequel will be r emem b ere d : And with that sequel that snatch of the chorus of irleeshpiatsevni:oinhihmis some praise— Ono se goodFh iamt deed u s i o — m e tell it in chois— Chauut it, and sing it, am He has flattened the cockscomb of Apollodorus." I days Is it not just possible, again, we I: " Graduate" asl a t I ni ' motn ji u n sgt possible to recognise in the ten,and then answer _..—is it of the Oxford Graduat o e whether these words f?theLis Graduate are not the words of— Mit. RUSKIN. " Believe me, father. they're'all accurs'd ! These marble garments of the ancient Gods, Which the blaspheming hand of Babylon Hath gathered out of ruins, and bath raised In this her dark extremity of sin • N tin the h our w h en s h e was sending forth Her champions to the highway and the field, To pine in deserts and to writhe in flame— But in the scarlet frontage of her guilt, When, not with purple only, but with blood, Were the priests vested, and their festive cups Foamed with the hemlock rather than the wine ! Call them not Churches, father—call them prisons ; And yet not such as bind the body in, But gravestones of the soul ! For, look you, sir, Beneath that weight of square-cut weary stone A thousand workmen's souls are pent alive ! And therefore I declare them all accurs'd. PRIEST. Pomo, lon I Thou ray* Knglish frish Foreign GRADUATE. Do I rave inciAin- So raved the Prophets when they told the truth To Israel's stubborn councillors and kings— So raved Cassandra, when in Hector's ear She ahrieked the presage of his comi4igiall:?,f t••*94" I am a prophet also —and I say That o'er those stones wherein you place your pride Annihilation waves her dusky wing, Yea, do not marvel if the earth itself, y 'EP-14; Like a huge giant, weary of the load, 4 1. - Should heave them from its shoulders. I havial'esiti ft .1 "::!, It is my purpose, and they all shall down !" eb Lastly, there is another personage here depicted—. one Tenfelsdrockh. Hear how he is described b one of the dramatis personce, in this ".spasmod i c . ,t tragedy" of Firmilian, and sa y w h e th e r th e d escr i p . :f not the description (to a T) of— tionis `` Mit. CARLYLE. SECOND GENTLEMAN. There was a fellow, too, an Anabaptist, Or something of the sort from the Low Countries, ejoi n Ci o n t name k gi n n o t yc heforwhat of particularTeifelsdriiscinkh I do He stood condemned ; but it was noised abroad That, in all his ways, he was a heretic. • . Six times the Inquisition held . debate Upon his is h t e en la e r t g s, e a ly nd di v d ou a c v h ail vouchsafed him speech, But they th yc a o n ul t d hs c i o , i 'E thatno n h i e ea m n o in st g e f a r r o n m est h l i y s words, Further Denounced all systems, human and divine. And so, because the weaker sort of men Aro oft misled by babbling, as the bees Hive at the clash of cymbals, it was deemed A duty to remove him. He, too, spoke. that never in your life, sir, did you hear Such hideous jargon ! The distressing screech Of wagon-wheels ungreased was music to it; And as for meaning—wiser heads than mine Could find no trace of it. 'Twas a tirade About fire-horses, jiituns, windbags, owls, Choctaws and horse-hair, shams and flunkeyism, Unwisdoms, Tithes, and Unveracities. Faith, when I heard him railing in crank terms, And dislocating language in his howl At Phantasm Captains, Hair-and-leather Popes, Terrestrial Law-words, Lords and Law-bringers,— I almost wished the Graduate back again : His style of cursing had some flavour in't ; The other's was most tedious. With these three brilliant portraits—from. the life and to the life—close we our notice of Funtrriim grateful to the humorous author of the volume, for haVing (as we are sanguine that Time may prove him to have done) through this one langhteri moving tragedy, given a death-blow with his dagger of satire to the whole school of the Spasmodic& - CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) George Mayhew, 18, was indicted for embezzling th ree several sums of one penny each, the property of the Post master-General. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Clarkson stated that the prisoner had been in the service of the Post-office, as a mail cart driver, and it appeared that he was permitted to receive letters upon his journey and to take a perquisite of a penny, in add dition to the amount of the postage ; but it was his duty to post the letters immediately upon his arrival at the head office. Instead of doing so, however, it ap peared that in three instances he had not only kept the pence given to him as perquisites, but also those that were given hint for the postage. The learned counsel added that the prisoner was not in strictness in the service of the Post-office, but that he had been several years in the Post-office, and bore a good cha racter, and therefore there was no desire to press for severe punishment. Mr. Robinson, whoappeared for the prisoner, said he was instructed that upon his journey to town, the pri soner could not resist the temptation offered by a pie man, and spent all the money in pies. (A. laugh.) The prisoner was sentenced to three months' impri. sonment and hard labour. William Coyle, 45, a respectable-looking man, de scribed as a chemist, was indicted for uttering a forged cheque for 101. 10s., with intend to defraud. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Sleigh prosecuted. The pri soner was defended by Mr. Parry. The offence with which the prisoner was accused ap pears to have been committed in a very ingenious man ner. It seemed that be had met several boys in the street, and that he gave them a note to carry to different tradesmen, and the answer was to be brought to him. Every one of these notes contained a cheque drawn upon Messrs. Coutts and Co. for different amounts, and they purported to be sent by customers of the different tradesmen, requesting that the cheques might be cashed. These facts were proved in three separate instances, and in the last it happened, singularly enough, that when the boy went into the tradesman's shop the customer who was supposed to be making the request happened accidentally to be in the shop at this time, and the at tempted fraud was, of course, discovered. The prisoner was taken into custody shortly afterwards at a public house in Lisle-street, and he was sworn to by the three F r boys as being the man who gave them the letters. The prisoner, it appeared, did not obtain any money in either of the cases. Mr. Parry addressed the jury at considerable length for the prisoner, and contended that the evidence as to his identity was not sufficiently conclusive, and upon this ground he asked for his acquittal. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years. MARKET IVE WS--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale in to-day's market. The demand for all kinds ruled very inactive, at barely Monday's decline in the quotations. The show of foreign wheat was moderately extensive. Even the finest qualities ruled dull, but we have no actual change to notice in prices. In floating cargoes next to nothing was doing. The barley trade was in a depressed state, on former terms. In malt next to nothing passing. We had a slow i nqu i ry for oats, yet prices were rip. ported. Beans, peas, and flour were unaltered in value. Aaniv&Ls THIS wraa. 'Cheat. I Barley. I Malt. ( Oats. 610 ) 2,220 J 750 1,550 4,490 I 2.010 --- 3,531 Floor, 2SO ske 3,180brl BOIZOITGH HOP. The business doing is limited, yet prices are well sup. ported. WHITECHAPEL. Each kind of meat sold heavily to-day, as follows : Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 1.(k1; lamb, 4s Oil to Ps 2d ; veal, 2s 10d to 4s Od ; pork, 3s Id to 4s 8d per Sibs by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, Aug.l6.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W.; light pleasant breaze, and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 15.—Wind, W. Arrived—York Town, from London, for New York. OFF DOVER, Aug. 15. —Emilie, from Hambur c gh, for Callao. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Walter R. Jones, from Hava.nnah. OFF THE WIGHT. —Eliza, from Havannab, for Copen hagen. FiLmourrr, Aug. 15.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived— Christian, from Akyab ; Flora, Quebec, for Truro. Sailed - Emanuel, for Quebec. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug . 15.—Arrived—L a Pl a t a ( s ) , from the West Indies, with 269,905 dollars on board. SUNDERLAND, Aug. 15.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived Maxwell, from Sierra Leone ; Orinthea, do. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.45 41 , 24. Wind, N. ; fresh and fine. The William the Conqueror, from Barbadoes to London, mas destroyed by fire on the 9th July, in lat. 19 N., long. 60 W. Crew picked up in their boats same day by the Precursor, arrived here, and captain, mate, carpenter, and seven hands were transferred on the 11th to the High lander, from Barbadoes to Bristol. Arrived—Roger Stewart and Warbler, from New Or leans ; John Currier, Charleston ; Queen of the West, New York ' • Senator, St. Joh n , N.B. ; City of M on t rea l and ValleyLld, Montreal; Prince Regent and Express, Quebec ; Gannett (screw steamer), Lisbon; Orissa, Alexandria ; Southampton, Smyrna. ; Supply, Leghorn ; Krydseren, Christiana. Off the Port—Mehemet, Shamrock (steamer), Onward, and Lochma.ben. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.30 A.M. Wind, W. • tide, 2 hours' ebb ; cl ou dy. Arrived—Tynemouth, from Colombo ; Criminal Bath, Pug wash ; Lady Sanders, Ceylon ; Hope, Villa Nova ; Early Bird, Shanghai; Trafalgar, Calcutta; S A ndyford, Demerara ; Rek a , S m y rna ; Gip sey, G uernse y ; MargaTai Reid, Stolpemund ee ; H o ll an d, ( s .), O s t en d. Sailed—City of R o tt er d am , s t eamer , f o r Dunkirk ; Bel gium; steamer, Osteud. _ _ DEAL, Wednesday, 10 a.m. Wind, calm, with heavy rain. Passed—Amazon, from Havannah, for London ? Nor. wegian ship Europa, from Spain, for Norway. -- — S—Mrs. Thomas a speak ing in this city, and answering the questions of those w h o resort to her for instruction on philosophtipchbarilolouasgnohpdhhryeer.; li g i o us subjects. She claims t t o isopn b is e rit u gu n iav d i6i e si r ie the guidance of a class of spirits who, white in the flesh, dwelt in all for their high ' degree of parts of the world, and who have now forsaken former errors and attained to a place of celestial truth. pure and exalted-practi iaaTnnrlteideel they ioigi o ee l y g na e cat c eir t oean nt o aod f l i zbta t eh h ecr e ieorlmje c gm o mi m oienn u ne n dan i ent e di a dy rilor until the coming autumn, postponing her Nbeewin England,accept a " call" to any of contemplatedtendeney. v i s ii i l t r t s o . B T o h s o t Mrs. French is in and, in the meantime, would Baltimore.the c o nutry towns s lle will . i i i n l and will remain 10 da 8 New York on the 22d inst., York weekly paper), y 'Cl4ri4lan Spirit it (WIN" THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1854. 1 .4 t i t' . I 7•;