The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

MARKET IS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale in the leading country markets held on Saturday were but moderate • neverthe less, the demands for all kinds was in a sluggish state, on somewhat easier terms. Fine barley realised full prices. Low and middling parcels were somewhat neglected. Malt sold at extreme rates. Oats, beans, peas, and flour com manded very little attention. The latest advices from New York state flour was in re quest, on higher terms. In wheat and Indian corn, very little was doing. Most of the Continental markets have ruled inactive. _ _ _ Up to our markets, last week, coastwise, the arrivals of Englisk grain were very moderate. From abroad, we re ceived 9,302 quarters of wheat, 10,283 do. of barley, 1,670 oats, 1,348 beans, 40 tares, 5,378 linseed, 1,051 rape seed, 85 sundry seeds, 2,703 sacks, and 7,608 barrels of flour. Fresh up to-day the arrivals of wheat coastwise from Essex and Kent were very moderate, and in middling con dition. From the east coast they were small, whilst the receipts by land carriage were comparatively trifling. Notwithstanding that the show of samples of both red and white was smaller than for some time past, the de mand for all descriptions, owing to the large quantities of foreign flour on offer, and the increased number of floating cargoes off the coast, was in a very inactive state. Al though no actual change took place in the quotations, much difficulty was experienced in effecting a clearance. The number of offers from the midland counties to for ward wheat during this and the following month was on the increase. The millers, however, purchased with ex treme caution, at barely late rates. With foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex granary, we were fairly supplied. Good heavy qualities changed hands at full currencies. Low and middling kinds ruled very dull, at barely stationary prices. Floating cargoes were heavy, and the quotations gave way 2s per quarter compared with Monday last. From the Baltic, numerous offers to ship wheat in the spring were received. The supply of English barley was small, but that of fo reign was large. Malting samples moved off steadily, at full prices. Low qualities of foreign were very dull, and a shade lower than laid week. We had a fair inquiry for all kinds of malt, at full quo- The show of Irish oats was tolerably extensive, that of Cations. English, Scotch, and foreign limited. The trade was tolerably firm, at late currencies. Beans, the supply of which was on the increase, met a dull inquiry,,at barely stationary prices. In peas comparatively few transactions took place, at last week's figures. The flour trade was in a very inactive state. In the quotations no change took place. cumpacir PEB IMPERIAL mEAsuitz. Wheat—Essex fc tent, Red .... new 42. to 48s Ditto • .... old bis 54s Ditto, White new 445 545 Ditt0........ old 49s 60s Norfolk and Lin- , eoln, Red, old 471 535 Ditto new •• 375 475 1111-01 d .. • • • • 295 32s New .... • • ...... 29s 32s Parley—Grinding . • • .. 28$ 30s Malting ......... 31$ 34$ Chevalier.... ... 358 395 Walt—Suffolk and Nor folk.• • • • • ...... 545 885 Brown ............... 46s bis Kingston andWaro 571 60s Malt—Chevalier •• 61s to 63s Oats— Yorkshire and Lincolnall., Feed 161 22e Potato . • • 218 248 Yonghal and Cork Black. ••• • • • 168 19s Cork, White •• 168 25; Scotch, Feed. •• •• 215 25s Beans--Tick .•••• .• .. 34$ 33s Pigeons .... 364 44s Peas—Grey ..•• •• •• •• 31s 35s Maple 33s 363 White. •• 36 , 40, Boilers •• • 38s . 42. 1 Flour—Tows.made.•• 41$ A6s Suffolk •••••••••• 32. 11. s Stoaktn do Norfolk 325 no SMITHFIELD. Since Monday kat fair average supplies have arrived in the port of London for the time of year—the total imports amounting to 2,664 head. During the same period in 1852 they ,amounted to 1,578 ; in 1851, 2,233 • in 1850, 1,679; in 1849, 1,729; and in 1848, 1,351 head. The arrivals continue in fair average condition. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST wzgic. Prom Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Ostend Harlingen...— 402 ... 142 18 Antwerp 293 ... 47 -- Rotterdam 149 1,155. 217 T0ta1.... 551 1,851 q 2 ... --- The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1852 169 1297 212 -.-- 1851 442 ". 1,495 186 -. 13 1850 725 765 ". 189 -.-- 1849 372 1,180 ". ". 177 .- -- 1848 436 806 109 -. The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was season ably extensive, and in full average condition. Although the arrival of home-fed beasts fresh up this morning were somewhat less than those reported on Mon day last, the supply of that description of stock was sea sonably extensive ; whilst its general weight and quality were good. The attendance of both town and country buyers was somewhat on the increase ; n evertheless, the beef trade, owing, in 'some measure, to the change ofl the weather, was in a sluggish state. In prices , however, no change took place. The primest Scots sold at 4s. per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,550 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 700 horned and polled Scots.. The numbers of sheep were again very limited ; but we observed a large increase in the arrival of clipped tegs. Most woolled sheep sold steadily at full prices—the primest old Downs being worth ss. 2d. Those out of the wool moved off slowly, at late rates—the best Downs being quoted at 4s. 2d. per 81bs. We were tolerably well supplied with calves. Prime veal changed hands steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the trade ruled dull. Pigs—the number of which was but moderate, moved off oiowly, on former terms. Per 81ba to sink the offal& Inferior Beasts ...2 10 to i Second quality ...3 2 3 4 Primo large oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots, &c. 3 10 4 0 Inferior sheep ...3 10 4 0 Second quality ...4 2 4 6 Prime erse.-wlled.4 8 4 10 a. d. o. d. Primo Southdown 5 0 5 2 Large crse. calves 3 0 4 0 Primo small do 4 2 4 6 Large hogs 210 3 2 mall porkers 3 6 4 ~, 0 tickling calves 20 0 25 0 Quarter old pigs 19 0 25 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ..................... 4,206 I Beasts 694 Sheep .....................16,410 Sheep Calves ..................... 164 1 Calves 132 Piga 215 1 Pigs — A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, March 15, 1852, and this day, Monday, March 14, 1853. TOTAL SUPPLY. Par 81bs, to sink the offals. • March 15, 1852. Mar.l4, 1853 s. d. s. d. s. d. os. d. 2 402 6210 to 3 0 2 8 3 03 2 3 4 3 2 3 43 6 3.8 3 6 3 8 310 4 0 2 8 2103 10 4.0 3 0 3 64 2 4 6 3 8 310 4 8 410 4 0 4 45 0 5 2 3 4 310 3 0 .4 0 4 0 4 64 2 4 6 2 -6 3 6210 3.2 3 8 310 3 6 4 0 4,129 4,206 22,770 16,410 . 141 164 215 . 360 Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... ... Prime large oxen ... ... ••• ••• Prime Scots, 6/c ... ••• ••• ••• Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... ... Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... Prime Southdown ditto ... ••• Largo coarse calves ... ... • Prime small ditto ... ... ... ••• Largehogs ... ••• ..• ••• ••• Neat small porkers ... ... ••• Beasts... ... ... ... Sheep ... ... ... ... Calves... ... ... ... . SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 17, 1851.—Beasts, 3 18,820; calves, 120; pigs, ,594 ; sheep, March 18, 1850.—Beasts, 3,578; sheep, 19,840; calves, 102; pigs, 190. 20 20 50 20 25 25 St. 50 50 161 St. 20 50 40 25 25 St. 50 25 100 St. St. St. St. 13i 20 20 50 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Full average supplies of country-killed meat—about 6,500 carcases—have arrived up to these markets since Monday last. The show of meat slaughtered in London on offer to-day was tolerably good, whilst the general demand ruled inactive, as fellows : Per 81bs by the carcase. a. d. v. d. Beef, inferior 2 8 2 10 Do., middling 3 0 3 2 Do., prime large 3 2 3 4 Po., do. small 3 4 3 6 Perk, large 2 8 3 2 s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do.,middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 2 8 4 4 Pork, small 3 6 4 0 BOROUGH HOP. The supply of all kinds of bops being very limited, the amount of business doing is exceedingly small. Prices, however, are firm. Mid and East Kent pockets, 100 s to 160 s ; Weald of Kent, 958 to 126 s ; Sussex, 95s to 115 s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIIILDS. Coastwise and by railway, the arrivals of potatoes con tinue limited, and in very moderate condition. The im ports from abroad since Monday last have been large— viz., 170 tons from Calais; 290 ditto from Dunkirk; 910 from Rouen ; 80 from Havre'; and 30 from Antwerp. Only a limited business was transacted to-day, as follows : York Regents, 105 s to 155 s per ton ; Lincolnshire do., 9531, 0 125 s ; Scotch do,, 95s to 115 s ; foreign, 90s to 105 s. WOOL. The supply of English wool continues very small. In every instance full prices have been paid for each descrip tion, with an improved demand. Foreign and colonial qualities dull, but not cheaper. The imports last week were-738 bales from Gibraltar, 637 from Sydney, 44 from Ostend, 157 from Hambro', 28 from Odessa, 15 from Leg horn, and 22 from Antwerp. SEEDS. ---- --- We have a steady demand for the best qualities of clover seed, at very full prices. All other kinds are a slow sale. In linseed very little is doing, and East India has sold at from 50s to 51s per quarter. Most other seeds command very little attention. Rape-capes are rather dearer. Lin seed qualities are held at full currencies. Tarnip,White, per bush. 9s to lls Swede .. .• .... • . 103 12s alnstard, Brown ••• . • • 7s lOs White, new ••••.. 7s Od lOs Tares,Winter, new.... 4s 6d ha Od Spring 68 Od 6s 6d Can e ary, per quarter • . 388 42s grass•• •• •... 28s 34s Clover, Red Eng. (cwt.) 48s 63s White .••• .. • • 46s 66s Foreign Red .. ... .• • 48s 63s Trefoil White.... 468 64s , new.......... 26s 30s Carraway, new .. •. .• 381 41s Coriander, new .• •• • • 15 s ris Hempseed, per quarter 321 855 Linseed, Eng.iowing.• 58s 62s Crashing •• • • .... 49s 545 Baltic .. 493 525 Odessa .......... 49s 531 Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English . 91 Os 10110 s Foreign, per ton 7110 s 101 55 Rape Cakes, pr ton 51 5s 51 10s RapeseediNew, pr lat 2310 s 96105 TALLOW. , Since our last report, the demand for all kinds of tallow ame ruled heavy, and prices have further receded. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot, is quoted at 445., and for delivqry dur i!g the last t wo mon th s 43 s 3d p er cw t. Town tallow is ' 3B Per cwt. net cash, rough fat 2s 51d per Blbs. 1851. Stock this day .... c. 2g,z20 35,378 138,256 Price of y. C.. Elio4ooBol 37 0 3 08 0i: 3 10 3: o B B 6d oc t i o t eli verY last week • • 1,507 1 .657 1,535 itto from June 16... 84,167 77,929 79,358 last Week .. 646 .210 at° front June 1.... 104,854 87,834 92,126 lbr iCo if TOWn •..... 43i Od 39s 6t.1 400 Od 1849. 1850. 1853. 36.369 448 Od to OP Od 2,235 82,836 46,849 36s 3d to 368 6d 2,495 90,249 100,364 336 9d 786 78,577 45 9d SL 50 50 20 • Bi l all 100 all all 11i 100 11; all all all 5 al St. 10 20 G a; 611 a] 10 Aberdeen . 11 Do., No. 2,7 p. c.... 10 Bits. & Ex. 4 p. c. St, Do. 4 p. c. Shares 'Caledonian £lO 'Chester & Holyhead I Guar. 5a per — cent. 34 Cork&Bandons?, p.c. A Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 11 E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. o. 1 Do. (£.5), 7 per cent. 2 Do. (£7 17s), 7. p et. 11 Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l 11 Do., No. 2 11 Do., New 6p. e. St 11 Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 0 East Lancash. 6p. cts a Edinb. Pith. & Dund 0 Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent 0 Great Northn. sp. c 0 Do. 5 p. C., Redeem at 10 p. e. prem.., 611 all Gt.S outhn. & Westn. (Ireland) Eights... 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. e.) )0 Great Western, fixed 4i per cent . 6 Lan. k York. F. £2O )0 Do., 6, p. e., Stock.. )0 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0... )0 Do. Pref. 5 p. C., St. 611 Do. Convertible, 5 p. c., 1852 )0 Do. New Guar. 6 . p. c London & S. Western, Con. Thirds .0 Londonderry & Coler. Shares .... 11 Londndry. & Ennisk Shares ... 4 11 Manch. , Shef.,&Lin., Shares, No. 1 11 Do., New, £lO S Do., £6 . 11 Marypt. & Carl. 4p. c. a Do. 44 per cent....... si Do ....• • . . 0 Mid. Consol. 6p. c St. 0. Do, Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4 percent. ll Norfolk Extension... 11 Do. Guar. 5i per et. 11 Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent........... )0 North British ........• 11 North Staffordshire.. 10 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 Do. 11 Shrewsbury & New Guaranteed 11 Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W.(Min), 3 p.c. .0 Do. 5 per cent. 11 South Devon 14 Do. New 11 S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f Os. 6d. 11 S. Yorksh. 4p. a. Guar. 3 Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. IP York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref 5 Do .0 York & N. Midland,' H. & S. Purchase 1 PREFERENCE SHARES. 106 ::: 108 11.66 ___ 3.67 19 - 20 1( 1 - - 3 - 3 - 44. - lypi -- 2 p -- 1A p - 15 18i -- 19 3 - 1127 - 129 1109 - 111 - 9 6/ 7ixd .05 107 P P .50 —152 = 153 31 - RP 10 11 13} - 14 8 p 161 - 11 - - P 146 - 148 - p 224 -23 i 5t -6/ 2 - 21 108 - 110 25 - 26 ---- 11 114, 174 - 16 17 par 4 P 26 —26 i 20 21 d Par 100 102 5 -- 51 Par i PI - iI) - li - 14 2 -1 a 6 — p 1 1 p 1 -2 p 1 - 1. p FORE: 3 Antwrp.dißotterdom 3 Belgian Eastn. Junct. 11 Charleroi & Erquelin 8 Dijonand Besan9on., 8 Dutch Rhenish 11 East Indian, 1 Do. Extension 11 Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junet. of France .5i Gt. Westn. of Canada - I Shares 1 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 _ per cent. pref .5 Luxembourg .0 'Do. (Railway).. 2 IDo. 3 Do. (Canal) 2 Do. 6p. cent. pref 7 Lyons & Mediiterran 4i Madras ;9 Maria Antonia 0 Do. New 11 Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) I Northern of France Il Do. 201. 3p. c. (fmy.B.&Ams.Slis.] 11 NorwegianTruk.Prof LO Paris and Lyons 11 Paris and Orleans 11 Paris and Rouen 11 Paris and Strasbourg , 4 ParisCaen&Che 7 brg. 5j Quebec & Richmond , 11 Rouen and Havre._ 11 Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 51 per cent. pref 4 Southern of France !s. Upper India Scrip._ 11 West Flanders 6 Do. s)j per c. 9 Western of Franco._ ' West. of Switzerland NoW Zoailandm • i -- 7A --8 sin 4/ —4lxin l —lain 9 —ll P 2 —tip 7i - 8 6 - 7 36i - 37 14 -- 154 8 -- 9 17 — lip 4A— 434 47 4% 334 --A! 44 -- 5 p P 4 P 20 -- 21 9 -- 94 9P — Sp 4* -- 5 !d— p -- mfr ;74 st. lii St. lb St. ill St. st. ill St. Ili St. St. 110 50 I a] St. li 50 [2 I ii 25 I a] 101 ”.1 124 a] 124 a] 12 St 10 St. 10 20 . al 3 al 2 a] St. 10 20 St. 10 15, 8 i al 10 1 25 al 1061_a] 20 I a] st. lb 17 25 I 11 20 al 20 20 20 al 20 5 al 20 ' 201 1J 2011 10 11 10 ! 20 ' 20 3,3 i 10 20 al 20 al 16 al 20 al 10 al. 20 1( 20 al 20 al 20 20 104 20 a 20 a 20 20 1 21 THE SE ARE MARKETS, BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAlLwits. Closing Prices this day. Aberdeen Arnbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon ' ,Cork Blackrock and, Passage Dublin&Belfast June. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction 1 Do. New East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (IS/. E.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E U. Sh.) 'Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk k Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dulidee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster Er Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifth's Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &Southpt London & Blackwall, Tilb. & Sthend. I Lond. Thigt.& S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths. Do £lO Sh M.&B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lrdndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man.& Lin. Un Midland Do. Binning. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Bury Extension. NewD. Aberg. &Hftd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and itestrevor Norfolk Do., New Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 ' Do., 1 A Deferred Do., i B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western....: N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scot:dsh Midland Shrearsbmy&Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock. Shrewsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswestiy Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh . River Dun, Do. . (Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway' Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newetl. &Berw. Do. Extensions. Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. - 303 61 - 63 st 104 7i —6oxd 21 22 d 3 —Wad 101 105 6li 65 22 —22 i 18 —19 A i... —ii pxcil 8 -- 9 5i -- 5i 34 -- 4A 13 --13ixd - 811 73 —74 ad 55 57xdi 76 78 32 34 62 64 81 82.x.d 45 .47 122 —l24xd 1071-108ixd 91 92 71 94 96 13 - 144 p 78 • 784 4a 41 d 34 3 - d 16 -- 164 lap 104 —lO5 119.; -- 12& 2t i .... 1 3 1 P p f 1 d d 901 9i 5 4 — 3d 11 12 19 -- 21 29i $ O 34 3d 76 --- 76' 44 46 50 52 3 34 3 3d 3 8 31 9 10 53 55 71 84 2 213 d 35 364 - Si - 4 1 3 47i -48 i 100 -- 102 64 - 66 64 - 66 70 - 75 18 -- 20 9 -. 10 11 -- 15 3 1 -- 8 & 21 -- 22 784 -- 79 36 37 124 -- 34 4 -- 1 44 1 = 1 2 1 1 9 . 29 --- 3 1 10 id— ip 69 7 d 2g 2 d 59 6 0 Butnnesa done this atty. 104 x d 65 4 22 13. f K zd I 7 81 J74 i d 81i z d 46 92 11 2i 11201 20 i. 20 d 91 90/ 29 76i I 45 59i li N. • II .Is. SIT N RAILWATS. Bedford and Bletch ley. Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr.& Dn. Fr firtlpl. Dk. & Railway • Hull & Selby Do. A Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn and Matlock Middlesbro m & Redcar Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p c Prost. & Wyro Do. gbares. Roystn.& Hit. Do. Shepth.S t Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrsti 30 - 31 29i -30 k 30 - 31 29 -30 105 -107 52i -53 i 151 - 153 32 -33 i 111 - 113 55i -56 i 264 -- 27 134 - 14 23A - 26. 19 -19 k 25 - 27 3 -- 31 1074 - 108 64 604 ad' - Pm 1 . 6 i - 154 151 - 153 .. _'dl 32i - 33 103 -104 Leaving Compans, London & N. West. Gt.Westn Do Do Do L.&N.W Caledon Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. New. Berw. Y. &Nlid Do IS. Eastern] Norfolk Do L.& If. W. & Midld. Stekton k Darlingt. Midlaud.. E. Count Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do GtNorthn D 0... Lancash& Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do IGtWestil. MINES. 1 all Agua Fria - 1 p 14 10s all Anglo Californian i - i p 10 2 Australasian.. ll -- 2 p 31 20 5 Australian - 7 61 1 1 all Australian Cordillera par - p 1 I. all Australian Freehold: 4 - 1 1 p 14 - 1 all Ave Maria - p 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par - p 1 all British Austria. Gold I - - 9 p p 1 20 13.5 British Iron 7 .35 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 pm.) 5 - 6 5/ 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 2/ - 21 20 15 . Do. St. John Del Rey 29 -30 1 1 Carson's Creek par - 4 p i 40 all Cobre Copper 46 -47 47 i 1 Colonial Gold 24 - 3 p 34 4 ... 14 Copiapo - St. all CopperMinersof Eng 7O - 75 25 all Do. Preference 74 - 8 4 p § all English and Austin , Copper Smeltg. Co ll - i d 4 20 all General l7 -19 19 • 2 all Great Nugget Vein 3 .- 34 p 54 5 1 3 all Great Polgooth ll -1# p 1 all Lake Bathurst I dis- par 1 all Liberty I i p 1 all Loud. &Californ. Gold , Quartz Crush. Co i - 4 d 1 all Mariquita 4d - par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ Bl - 84 8 9 1 all New Granada i i p 1 all Nouveau Monde l4 -11 21 1 5 1 Port Philip p 1 -11 2 1 all Quartz Rock par- 1 p 1 1 50 all Rhymney Iron 22 -24 15 Do. New - 71 61 4 30 104 Santiago de Cuba - 7 1 all South Australian par - 1 p 11 10 7 Tin Croft ll -13 281 all United Mexican 64 - 7 6/ 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada i - p 1 all West Mariposa par- p 1 all Yuba i - A P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 -- 93 50 all British N. American ... - ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 21 - 2,31) 44 i 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lon don - ... 32 ... 4 English Scottish and Australian 2l - 3 p 20 74 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5l - sip 124 4 50 20 London and County ... - ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... - ... 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... - ... 20 2 London Bauk of Aus tralia and India - 4p 2! 1 50 221 National of Ireland, ... - . „ 25 all Oriental Bank o f Corporation 55 - 56 554 5 4 25 5 Do. New - ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... - ... 481 1 10 all Do. New - ... 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg . & Gold Imp. Co. par- 4p 25 25 South Australia 5O - 52 51 25 all Union of Australia 77 - 78 ... 21 Do. New Bl - 9 50 10 Union of London ... - ... 40 all Union of Madrid - ... MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 1 108 - 113 110 14 BaPeo 20 6 Austrlasn.Pcitic.Mail [ox Peel &ad [and id 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail ... - ... 38A,Brit. Amcricn. Land, ... - ... 100 324 Canada - ... 5 5 Crystal Palace - ... 5,1-64 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France t ... - .. , . 20 1 Eastern Steam - ... 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Jr ... - ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... - ... 100 50 General Screw Steam ... - ... 20 21 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... - ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam-Fuel ... - .., 10 2 Netherlands Land ... - ... 2 20 2 1 Nrth. of Europe Steam .., - „ , 50 all Peninsular &Oriental ... - ... 50 25 Do. Do. ••• -- •.• 100 60 Royal Mail Steam - . . 811 25 25 South Austral. Lan 57 - 59 58 91 7 1 1 Submar. Telegraph 1 ... - ... 5 2 Universal Emigration' 10 and Colonisation.., ... - .„ and Colonisation.. Tan Diemen's Land.. f- 2ii i i i 201 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS D 4 Y.) LONDON, March 14.—Wind at Noon, W., dull, with rain. DEAL, Mare S.E. by E. Arrived—Ro chester, Lawrence, Sputh Seas ; Briton, Singapore ; Susan E. Howell, Baltimore ; Eliza, Demerara ; Solem, Charles ton ; Triton, Galatz ; Stockholm, Batavia ; Margaret Connall, and Jane Greene, Madras ; Isabella Herens, and Duke of Lancaster, Mauritius ; Nicholas, Maracaibo ; Mary and Ellen, Feulthorpe. Sailed—Tory, Port Philip ; Maid of Alicante, and Earl of Chester, Melbourne ; Grati titude, Madras ; Titania, Calcutta; Express, Pernam buco ; Erie, New York. FALMOUTH, March 13.—Wlnd, S.S.E., moderate. Ar rived—Othello, Savannah ; Advena, Jaffa; Harbinger, Odessa ; Catharina, Ibrail. Sailed—Pauline, 'Valparaiso. PLYMOUTH, March 13.—Wind S.E. Arrived Madonna, Bahia ; Carmen, Santander. 'Sailed—Sir Thomas Man sell, Corunna. trvEßroot, March 12 and 13.—Wind, S.S.EI Arrived— Lancefield, Adams, Rio Janeiro • Mary Spencer, Fisher, Calcutta ; Adriana, Smith, Rio Bent() ; England's Queen, Magatlan ; Countess of Sefton, Callao ; Connecticut, New Orleans ; United Kingdom, and Colonist, Savannah ; Ash burton, New York ; Serpent, St. Michael's ; i Continent, n f n and John and Lucy, New O r l ea n s ; A s ti ne , ezandria. ' Sailed—Gertrude, Boston ' Mountaineer, S a ; Iron Prince (s), and Marco Polo, Melbourne ; Lun , Mani ll a ; Courier, Bombay ; Mary Winch, Lima ; lan he, Monte Video ; Piedad, Bahia ; Phoenix, Antigua ; Colon, Porto Rico ; Pastorita, Havannah ; Annapolis, Philadelphia ; Progress, Asia (s), Universe, and Lady Russell, New York ; Creamore, Newfoundland ; British Queen (a), Con stantinople ; Earl of Charlemont, Port Philiri ; Sabrina, Perth, W.A. ; Woodland Castle, Barbadoes ; Chaos, Sa vannah ; Harward, Virginia. The wreck of a timber laden ship, of from 700 to 800 tons, was passed on the 10th of Feb., in lat. 28 N., long. 34 W., by the Adriana, arrived here. QUEENSTOWN, March 11 and 12.—Arrived—Albion, and Abel, Mauritius ; Delhi, Callao ; Arietides, and Syren, Galatz. _ _ _ SICIBRERERN, March 11.—The Thomas Henry, from New Orleans to Liverpool, on shore on the Sand Banks, is a total wreck; preparations are being made for landing the cargo. CROMER, March 13.—The Cromwell, of and from Shields, for London, struck upon a sunken wreck (supposed on SherbOam Shoal) yesterday, and sank in deep water ; crew saved. MESSINA, March 2.—The Cumberland, from Alexandria to Queenstown, was abandoned at sea on the 20th of Feb., about 100 miles to S.W. of Sardinia, and is supposed to have foundered soon after ; crew saved by the Christiana, Curnell Brokinshaw, arrived here from London, bound to Constantinople. g u h r a t t by t M Nottingham,r. Thomas l brought on Thursday, an • since an extensive butcher in that town, against Hardy, some time SEDUCTION. —In t c h t e ion Sh m e , ri as fr b s for the seduction of his daughter, aged Royal Dragoons, put in to show that the defen- Herbert Morgan, a captain in the First 20 years. Letters were p dant professed warm affections for his victim , and that he had offered to engag e lodgings for her at Brompton (after the Royals had left Nottingham ), where he might result of the d intimacy was the birth of a child. The j ur y see his " darling" often. The res 600/. damages and 40s. costs. THE LAW OF PILOTAGE. - - The bill of the govern m e nt on pilotage contains twenty-five clau ses. B y the etrne a pre ambledict— it is d ec l ar ed to be expedient t hat the ri g ht of piloting ships outwards from the port of London, e same port, should b e v ested in one body of pilots, and the right of piloting ships inwa rds to th and that su c h b o dy s h ou ld b e s ubject to uniform autho rity and control. The union of the Trinity-house and Cinque Ports is to be effected. The Board of Trade is to examine and grant licenses to masters and mates, with power to withdraw the same. Re turns are to be made by pilots of their earnings ; and all returns are to be laid before Parliament. Alter ations are to be made in the management if necessary. is to o f extend the e t c d o r d i stCommonrdistricts in b y her M a j es t y i n counc i l, instead of by t h e c hi e f justice u to all Brnsh anpo or Ireland, & c ., i n w hi c h any masters of vessels are com pelled by law t o emp l oy p il ots. The day on wh i c h th e Great Britain ri T ta he in bill is law is to take effect is to be inserted in the same, which is to be called " the Pilotage Law Amendment Act, 1853." 36 51 Of 81 13 1 1 69i 12g 9 59 60 1 pm 3 14/ 1051 6i x in 4i x in x in . x A pm r 4 II tr') 111 - 0 ' X2-0,7N DO-N,--M 9 D A - Y - E V E IV - 1 - 14 - G - A RC H fti: 185 3. Closing Prices this day. Business this day BULTVER LYTTON'S NEW WORK. !'y Novel ; or, Varieties in English Life: 4 vols. By. Pisistratus Caxton.. Blackwood. Remarkable as our expectations were from its very commencement as to the merits of this extra ordinary work on its completion, those • expecta tions we must, avow have been, in every respect, realised. "My Novel" is something more in regard to its author than another signally success ful achievement in literature. It must' for many reasons, to our thinking, be regarded as his master piece. Nevertheless, we would have it especially understood, that, in declaring this to be our deli, berate an d conscientious conviction, we are not disposed to t rea t th e predecessors of ie • new fiction before u s w ith anything bearing in e g , even the semblance we of dispara gement. We have no inclination what rder.that ever to dep rec i ate the excellence of Sir Bulwer Lytton's ea r li er perform may pronounce a more studied panegyric upon the latest fruit of his ever-fructile and ever-ripening imagination. Among his. former productions we can enumerate favourites so secure in our affection, so elevated in our estimation, so fully and cordially commanding our admiration, that it would require some almost preternatural display of originality on the part of our great novelist to loosen their hold upon our not superficially exercised capacities of appreciation. Those wonderful creations of his— the offspring of his prolific and comprehensive in tellect —are, in. fact, altogether too diversified in their nature to clash with each other in their claims upon our preference : they are too dissimilar in their character to' necessitate at the hands of the critic a choice that would assuredly be as idle as it might in effect appear to be invidious. It is scarcely so much in reference to the varied aspect of Sir Bulwer Lytton's reputation in English lite rature that we offer, the tribute of this acknOw lodgment —although we might discover ;wider field for argument s of a similar tendency in the fact of that ample and golden reputa tion being derived from eminent. labours in almost every one of its more removed and more exalted departments. It is rather • that we are here writing in allusion to the aston ishing contrasts visible in the chequered group of his prose fictions alone, to the variegated. dyes (so to speak) colouring into splendour his gor geous robe as a romancist, the charms' of an. ever changing manner, and of an ever-shifting purpose, which are among the chief spells of his wizard fascination. Undoubtedly, the fact is marvellous enough, that, in Bulwer Lytton, we have a man who has adventured into nearly every one of the higher regions of imaginative literature —that in all these regions, without exception, he has mastered the difficulties in the way of ambitious enterprise— that from all he has brought, sooner or later, some brilliant work at once the result of his daring,and the reward of his assiduity. Throughout this ap parent changefulness, moreover, he has proved himself faithful to the object of his intellectual toil, and not less also to the source from which it may be said to have emanated. Art has ever been the jea lous mistress he has served, as Nature has been, in all his purer and loftier efforts, the source of his inspi ration. The one has been, in a manner, the God dess, and the other the Priestess of his imagination. Under such auspices he has been enabled to build up for himself no common or, we believe, evanes cent reputation. Twenty-five years have scarcely elapsed since the commencement (in earnest) of his literary endeavours, since the beginning of his pilgrimage after the, True and the Beautiful— and, already he has achieved for himself distinction as a Poet, as a Dramatist, as an Essayist, as an Historian, as a Reviewer, as a Novelist, as a Bio grapher, as a Publicist, as an Orator, as a Pamph leteer : taking part in the lowlier as well as in the loftier rivalries ; soaring at one period into an epic( atmosphere (the empyrean of Fancy) when chaunt ins- the glories of King Arthur, and at another di recting his plastic mind to the consideration. of the homelier interests of agriculture in those matter of-fact " Letters to John Bull," signed by him with such exquisite accuracy and sig nificance-7" A Landlord and .a Labourer." Yes, in very truth, a labourer ! For never, surely, did any one less appear to comprehend the luxury of the dOke far niente—the faith of the lotos eaters, the wisdom of the lazzaroni. Never re laming in his exertions, or only pausing from them i for a while with a view to their yet more energetic renewal immediately afterwards, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has, within this past quarter of a century, and while only yet in the maturity of his manhood, inscribed his name unfadingly in three divisions, at least, of our national Walhalla. Neither the wit of Sydney Smith, nor the subtle . genius of Pascal, could secure a very extended popularity to the labours of even the most suc cessful pamphleteer. As an orator, Sir Bulwer Lytton has yet to develope those great resources which upon more than ono notable occasion, in the House of Commons, he . has revealed that 'ho really possesses in his capacity as a rhetorician. A generous and discriminating critic he has frequently shown himself to be through the pages of the New Monthly, as he has before now proved himself a vigorous and masterly Reviewer through his contributions to the Edinburgh. Yet in neither capacity has he gained, because in neither has he apparently aimed at pre-eminence among his contemporaries. Charming though his graceful memorial of Laman Blanchard, he cannot be said, even by his admirers, to have mastered the diffi culties encountered in the pathway of the biogra pher—and this simply, we, take it, by reason of his never having attempted in that particular school any elaborated composition. His fragment of a history of Athens, ornate and eloquent though it is unquestionably, is still simply a' fragment, ,so that he may be declared to have merely entered his claim to the dignity of an annalist, without follow ing up that claim by any adequate justification. His " Student" must always place him among the most delightful of our essayists, even while it fails to elevate him above the writers of " Elia ", and the " Spectator." Whatever may be thought of it by, cavillers like the ingenious Secretary to to the Admiralty, the carefully-considered and closely-reasoned chapters of " England and the English " will continue to obtain for its author a high degree of consideration, in spite of the supreme and overshadowing' renown of such men. as Delolme and Montesquieu. But, as a poet, as a novelist, and as a dramatist, the reputation. of Sir Bulwer Lytton may surely now be regarded as 'established. In each of those re markable characters he has long since vindicated his right to our admiration 2 • and he has done this, let us observe, by a diver s ity of rare and very ad mirable achievements. Vis frequent and vari ous successes have been the consequence, seem ingly, of his implicit reliance on the oOq TO rav— that confidence which was the talisman of good fortune to Napoleon the Great, and Which consti tutes in reality the secret of victory as well to bookmen as to conquerors. It has so operated in his instance, that 'the lurid p ro mise of " Falkland" has, been almost forgotten ever since the sparkling vivacity of ".Pelham". first awakened the pub lie mind to the birth of a new and creative genius among our master-novelists. It has so deve loped its influence in his regard, that the immature graces of the " Duchess de la Valliere" have been lost sight of now, that its worth has been wholly eclipsed by the sterling value of plays like the brilliant " Money," and the exquisite " Lady of Lyons," and the impassioned' " Riehe-: lieu." It has, in fine, so revealed the fervour of its inborn energy as a source of incitement, that the youthful effusions of his muse (the very titles' of which we shrink - from enumerating, because of their now obvious and scarcely accountable inferi ority) have been cast aside by himself as Only merit ing oblivion, dwarfed as they are by contrast with his later and more majestic composition's —poetry throbbing with the warm blood of his childhood,, and yet mellowed with the sunny ripeness of the judgment of his maturity. Conspicuous though it is most indisputably in each of the different depart ments already particularised, the indomitable per severance of our author appears to be, perhaps, the most conspicuous in that' true faeryland from the purple mists of which he has summoned the loveli ness of lEgle, and.' the mirth of Gawaine, and the gentleness of Caradoc, and the wisdom of Merlin, and the pomp of Carduel, and the pride and the glOry of Pendragon. There were auguries, no doubt, of nobler achievements , for the future inf those pensive verses on " Constance," ending, as they did, with a gush of natural emotion, and more clearly still in those, touching and so lemn lines on " Milton," in which the Dreamer rose at times into the rapture of tho Cele brant, but their promise we Cannot but con- Ceive to have been altogether surpassed by tlAt satire and that epic which have, within the last few years, been their successors. Questioned for a long while, Bulwer Lytton's capabilities as a poet have come at last to'be recognised ; insomuch that he has been enabled, twice, to test the value 'of their power under the disguise or shadow of the anonymous. Therefore, now, at least, he may exult at the tardy fulfilment, in this respect, of what wo doubt not had long continued among his most cherished aspirations—rejoicing, as . Horace rejoiced, in his tender and almost plaintive ode to Melpomene. ROMEO principle urbium, Dignitatur soboles lifter amabiles • Vatum ponere me chords ; Et jam dents minus mordeor invido. Unlike that loitering voluptuary, however, the bard of "King Arthur". has indicated by, his public life--and this not merely in reference to the city of Lincoln, or the shire of Hertford—that ,he does not regitrd the_ indulgence of .:pootic ,reverie as a ltogether incompatible with participation in the ruder struggles 'of .the .commonwealth.* Hence, we have found hini, at intervals, - taking part in the . discussions .of Parliament ; and while, in this manner contributing his modicum to the records of Hansard, assiduously striving, as we have seen, after that distinction- which he has ,. commanded in. such extraordinary abundance from so many and such opposite departments of imagina tive literature. . Marvellous, we have already said, has been the intellectual plasticity with which he lias equally shown himself a proficient now in one, and now in another .of th ese. d epartments : but _stil l More marvellous, to our thinking, has been the variety .of manner, or, more strictly speaking, of style displayed.by.him in his one and paramount character as a novelist. Altogether, Bulwer Lytton has written about - twenty novels,'and between - no two of them, we may safely assert, is there traceable any kind of resem-' 'blance whatsoever. Several of them, indeed; are 'of a totally distinct species from each other--con eeived in a different school—written after a fashion wholly dissimilar. Compare, for example, Pelham, that Iliad of the Artificial, in which the hero was, according to the happy phrase of his historian, "a prsonal combination of antitheses," at once a disciple of wisdom and a votary of pleasure, a moralist and a voluptuary, a fop and a philosopher— compare it with Zanotti, that Odyssey of the Mys tical, in which, under certain typical . forms were unravelled some of the tangled mazes in the great problem of human existence—the hero being, so to speak; the incarnation of Idealism (to adopt the ingenious explanation put forth by ,some unknown writer in the appendix to, the cheap edition just published) enforcing, through the medium of his fictitious career, the sublime . truth, that "the universal lot is, after all, that of the highest privilege." What. two stories could possibly present a more startling contrast to each other ?—here the Adventures of a Gentleman= there a Romance of the Rosicrucians ! Compare, again, the delicate and beautiful figment of The Pilgrtms of the Rhine, called. by its writer so grace 'fully and modestly " an episode out of ' the graver epic of human destinies"—compare it with the lofty and majestic narrative of Rienzi, in which the last of the Roman Tribunes, " the hope of Italy," and the "friend of Petrarch," was so touchingly and fervidly celebrated. Here, not less, was an asto nishing contrast—the memorial of a heroic patriot sinking under the weight of popular ingratitude, and the memento of a young girl slowly dying of consumption ! Then, there was Paul Cli f ford, a story designed to illustrate " a vicious pri son-discipline and a sanguinary criminal code," and by so' doing, to direct attention in a particular manner to .those enormous flaws in our penal institutions—and there was Godolphin, in which the vices of the " intellectual trifler," were embodied—and there was the lovely classic tale of The Last Days of Pompeii, which was com posed when " a stranger from that remote and barbarian isle which the imperial Roman shivered when he named, paused amid the delights of the soft Campania," and created a soul under the ribs of the dead Heathendom. What attractive diver sity. of theme—and Protean changefulness in the very style of the different compositions ! Con tinuing the catalogue of these remarkable works, there were the meditative history of Ernest Mal travers, and the turbulent and agitated current of events marking the cares'. of Alice, and that story of The Disowned, in which was adroitly typified in the person of Algernon Mordaunt, the " Heroism of Chiistian Philosophy :" and there were the melancholy memorials of Eugene Aram, convey ing, as their writer intended, unde7 the veil of an alluring Romance, the grim and awful significance of a Tragedy—and that noble historical narrative recounting the rise and fall of Warwick, The Last of the Barons, from among the real personages in which the author could evoke imaginary men, and things like poor Adam Warner and his Eureka—and Devereux, wherein the people and manners of the last century were depicted through the aid of a fictitious autobio graphy--and Harold, a poem in prose, relating the downfall of the last of the Saxon sovereigns—and Leila, depicting the fate of Grenada and of Boabdil, the last of the Abencerrages—and _Aright and Morning, a tale purely English and domestic, one of the best among the best, a favourite among our favourites—and Lucretia, the wierd annals of crime and infamy—and the Caxtons, abounding through out with a most tender pathos and a most sweet philosophy. After all these amazingly varied pro ducdons comes the latest of Bulwer Lytton's lite rary achievements—and an achievement it assuredly . . is in the strictest sense of the word—this fiction - , which he has himself distinguished above its prede ceisors by designating it MY NOVEL, par excellence. If we were required to attempt a careful analysis of the plot, or a minute exposition of the incidents described in the course of its development, we must fairly acknowledge at once that we should feel ourselves to be in a position of no inconsiderable em barrassment. Honestly, we would about as lief un dertake to define minutely the contents of the En cyclopmdia Britannica. We would as soon be con ducted into the great hall (when completed) 'of that wonder of wonders, now being erected at Saltaire, and after viewing all that complicated whirl of wheels, and pulleys, and pistons, and mules, and throstles, and devils, and scut c h ers , making up the din and madness of ts machinery, be asked—coolly —to describe that. Fancy, for an instant, the task' of thridding the labyrinth of all its intricate and interwoven involutions ! And then discover the cui Bono ! Besides, supposing the explanation to be actually - , accomplished, we have a rather shrewd suspicion that it would be something tanta mount in lucidity to Johnson's definition of net work—" reticulations or decussations with inter stices between the intersections"— the elucidation being, in fact, more difficult of comprehension than the thing elucidated. No : the work• itself is here tempting ' all men to read it for themselves and not to search after a scanty inkling of the drift of the story, by obtaining it second-hand from the dry epitome of a reviewer. Adventuring upon any such epitome appears to ourselves at least, in reference to a really remarkable work like "My Novel," about as rational a proceeding as it might be on ex amining some masterpiece from the looms of the Gobelins, (or, as the Cockney called it, the Tapestry of the Goblins,) 'instead of pausing before it to admire the ,delicacy, and adroitness, and elabora tion apparent in every portion of it as a miracle of art, to go prying curiously at the back of it, in quisitive after every thread and tag knotted there in the process of fabrication, eager to see where the damson-colour commenced and the apple-green ended, or where the peach-blosSom ended and the ruby-red commenced. Taxidermy is a very pretty science no doubt, and some lions may not lose their tawny gloss during the course of the preparation. Entomology again. is, without question, a study. eminently worthy of every reasonable encourage ment ; though in the handling of them some of the bloom is apt at times to be rubbed off the wings of your rarer prizes, your dragon-moths and your tiger-butterflies. Let no disparagement be under stood as implied by the comparison. , Rather otherwise. There is a bloom on a thought or on a sentiment, no less than on the wings of a, butterfly. We confess to having no sympathy whatever with those who would for ever be reducing the beautiful to the matter-of-fact—any more than we should . derive pleasure from seeing every clown that passed' through our garden fingering the petals of our choicest anemonies and picotees. Briefly, we can not understand the advantage, much less the satis faction of reducing the plot of some masterly , work of imagination to a dry syllabus or abridg ment. Scarcely less idle we conceive it to be, seeking as some solvers of such riddles perpetually are for the hidden' meaning of every fanciful composition. Sir Bulwer Lytton has himself expressed this elsewere (" Pilgrims of the Rhine," ch. xviii.), where he complains that some critics in their over-subtlety have turned Hamlet into an allegory, not even Allowing Shakspiel:e to paint mankind, but insisting on his einhoayi qualities. " They turn poetry into metaphysics,.'.' says he, "and truth seems to them shallow, unless. ait allegory, which is false, can be seen at the bottom. -The remark, in the original, is applied to' the German, but it is unhappily no less appli cable to a certain portion of our own literature. Against the danger of this over-subtlety, as against that of the reduction of his plot to a bald epitome,' our author is fortunately guarded in his present work by, the circumstance of its magnitude--and not merely by the circumstance of its magnitude, but by that also of its infinite' elaboration. The diversity of the characters introduced to the readers of "My Novel," is only equalled as a dis play of invention by the variety of the incidents linking those characters together, associating them in one common interest through all the mazes of •the chequered narrative, and weaving the unbroken thread of the story through a countless number of complicated, and yet distinctly traceable, involu tions. Everywhere throughout the fiction there is discernible, on a careful scrutiny, the application of the subtlest art to the grateful toil of its de velopment. Only, • however, upon a careful scrutiny, for otherwise the art remains in visible under tho garb of a facile and all embracing ease, an ease imparting to the language * The opinion expressed by. Horace runs thus —it oc curs at the very opening of this delicious ode : " Quern to Melpomene, semel Nascent.= placido lumina videris, Ilium non labor Isthmius, Clarabit"ptigilem, &c. Sed qtur Tibur ct:qtae fertile prajittunt, . 'Et spince rienzi;rum annte, Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilent.: - "farm. lib. iv. ii. the charm of a spontaneous eloquence, and infus ing into the whole work the spell of a most sweet and natural fascination. Never before, indeed, has Sir Bulwer Lytton 'manifested more delightfully the highest skill of all —the firs celar e arte that skill which is, in , truth, the offspring of his more elevated aspirations, as it is the reward of his pro longed and indomitable perseverance. 1 Riccabocca we would at once select from among the crowd of imaginary beings depicted in " My Novel " as our especial favourite. Numerous other favourites we have, of course, amidst all that motley concourse of his companions. We halve an affee tion for the bluff old Squire of the parish of Hazel dean—an affection none the less Sincere because -of our malicious pleasure in the remembrance that his nether man was only clad in nankden when he tumbled among the thistles, and none the less ear nest because .of our contempt for the stacks and our admiration for the sermon on the text from Gala tians. We have an affection, too, for the pure -minded and gentle-hearted Parson of that same parish of Hazledean—in spite of his irritability over the fluctuations of a rubber, and this, even though we cannot refrain from chuckling at the recollection of his discomposure on that horrible, high-trotting horse, when hailed from the postchame window by Richard Avenel's inquiry of--" How's the leather ?" We have a kindness even for that saun Dick Ave nel—the true type of your go-ahead manufacturer, fresh from the inspiriting influences of the political atmosphere of Yankeelatid=liking him not a jot' the less became we- happen -to be amused when he is so " catawampoilsly chawed up" (to employ one of his own characteristic expressions) on venturing to aspire to the attainment of 'a baronetcy through the interest of Audley Egerton. For Audley Egerton himself we cherish, through all those clouds of suspicion, sentiments only of the tender est sympathy and the fullest admiration. For it is impossible not to recognise in his instance, under the conventional frigidity of public life, the warmth of the human affections. Harley L'Estrange—let us acknowledge it at once—we should have loved incomparably the most of all, but that we conceive that most exquisite creation to have been strangely marred towards the close of the narrative. Na tural though the change depicted by our author in the whole character by Lord L'Estrange—wakened to revenge as he is only by the discovery of what he imagines at the first to be an act of unexampled I turpitude—it must, never th e l ess , b e a d m itt e d , to our thinking, that, if - in 'this Sir Bulwer Lytton has evidenced his superior allegiance to the True, he has in the very act of so doing—sacrificed the Beautiful. Until this sudden and startling trans formation in Harley's nature we should have laughed to scorn the judgment of any reader who could for a single instant have hesitated in accord ing to him a decided preference among all the characters. Since that change, however, our par tiality in his regard has been, as it were against our own inclination, utterly dissipated. Every thing he does, even when restored to his former suavity, fails to revive in its early freshness our genial estimate of his temperament. There is a flaw in What was previously the " one entire and peifect chrysolite" of his really love able idiocyncrasy. And . so—Harley L'Estrange brought down from his pedestal —we turn with un divided admiration to the disguised Duke of Ser rano, the good Alphonso, the gentle, the wise, the guileless even where he fancies himself most full of guile, the homely and yet stately, the chivalrous and yet fantastic, the magnanimous and kindly lord of the little Casino, feeding upon sticklebacks, and ever thumbing the pages of that dreadful Machia velli—Dr. Riccabocca. Even Melancthon must have loved him in spite of his being one of those incorrigible " Papishes" even Melancthon, we say, because was it not his mild voice that was raised in applause when Servetus was slowly roasted to death by Calvin ? Yes, forbidden by the records of the fourth volume to sustain our preference for Lord L'Estrange, we select Dr. Riecobocca from among all the more attractive characters in "My Novel," as our favourite of favourites. And this, notwithstanding that we have amongst those favourites not already mentioned several whom we cannot regard otherwise than with very peculiar tenderness. There is John Barley the wasted genius —a companion picture to David Fallen, companion we mean as affording a touching contrast to that exquisite delineation—poor John Burley illustrating his baulked ambition by that one-eyed perch which he declared to be the Delilah of his existence ; squandering the resources of his rare intellect upon that detestable Beehive which was only another name for Oblivion ; and in the downward anguish of his despair seeking to degrade to the gaudy squalor of a gin-palace the dieties of whom Schiller had sung so divinely in his glorious Dithyramb ! There is` Leonard Fairfield, the young poet, or rather the lovely ideal of a youne* poet—all the freshness of youth and all the passion of poetry constituting the charm of his individuality—winning his way to our heart first by his refusal of the sixpence, and first imbib ing the bitter wisdom of experience from the terrible life and death of Chatterton. We are not without a partiality, moreover, for Dr. Morran, the good natured homoeopathist ; fo r F ran k Hazeldean, the young Guardsman, who is as generous a ne'er-do wed as lie is undoubtedly a thoughtless scapegrace; for the faithful Jackynio, ever looking after the small fry in the fish-pond, when he is not tending his garden, or invoking the aid of his sainted name sake. Besides those already mentioned, what crowds there are of other and very different cha racters 1 * A glimpse of the broken-hearted soldier. Digby. An outline sketch (but such an outline sketch !), as suggestive and all-sufficient as oue of those from the pencil of Moritz-Retzsch—of the dyspeptic poor relation, Higginbotham with " expectations!" A callotype of old John Avenel, the imbecile wreck of a small, retired, provincial tradesman. A kind of si houette, in profile of the haughty Colonel Pompley, an officer having a supreme horror of Vulgarians. Beyond all these, in addition to a multitude of other personages, ranging through all the ranks of society in England, as the second title of the story naturally leads the reader to anticipate, besides a concourse extending upwards in the social scale from Stirn, the hard-headed Steward of Squire Hazeldean, to the Earl of Lansmere, the father of Harley, Lord L'Estrange—there are minor figures grouped elsewhere on this broad canvas duly su bordmated, of course, to those which are placed in the foreground more conspicuously. Prominent, howbeit, among the less prominent, are Mark Fairfield, the poet carpenter—Mr. Norreys, the London Man of Letters—Mr. Prickett, the book seller—Spendquick, the man about town—Borrow well, unquestionably his half-brother—Mr. Sprott, the tinker, the gentleman who enters into that very admirable arrangement with his beast of bur den (vol. i. p. 26)—" The Tinker went behind and sung, the Donkey went before and was thwacked." Maunder Slugge Leslie, Esquire, -of Rood-hall, the decayed landed proprietor—Oliver, his youngest son, not too proud to play at cricket with the children of the villagers—honest Farmer Bruce of Hawleigh—even the nameless Austrian Prince, and the equally nameless Boniface of the Lansmere Arms, the latter being the dogmatical disputator who poses Parson Dale when piqued upon the inaccuracy of his knowledge as a philolo gist, by sententiously observing, in regard to the 'difference between bumptious and gumptious (vol. i. p. 320), " Bumptious is bumptious, and gump tious is gumptious. Now, the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious." All these are delineated with a bold and apparently careless facility ; but yet, at the same time, it may be remarked, in every instance with singular niceness of discrimination. Perhaps still more admirably contrasted with each other are the three principal villains of the narrative—the brilliant, hardy, and relentless Giulio Franziui, Count di Peschiera—the sleek, Jew money-lender, Baron Levy, who first appears upon the scene (Vol. ii., p. 137) as " a handsome man with, a camelia in his button-hole ;"—and wiliest of all the schemers in "My Novel," Randal Leslie, the protege' of Audley Egerton, as crafty as lago . and meaner than qachimo, one who evidently coincided with the Duke do Lauzun (" Duchess de la Valliere," Act i., sc. iv.) in believing that "The best hero is- -the cleverest rogue." Randal may be regarded, we conjecture, as placed in the balance against Leonard, just as Levy the usurer has the direct counterpoise of interest to Egerton the statesman, or as Peachier°. may so ibe viewed in the light of a foil or antithesi t R:cc b o cca—the true hero of the book being H Lord L'Estrange. Randal's position arley genius of the story is happily indicated in as the bad thrower describing him gliding after nightfall a passage when (Vol. darkened streets of the metropolis, the p. 282) " solitary amidst the v- t in .) and on through the machinery of eivilisa. city, cation, went the still Spirit of Intellectual Evil." Tliro 1 + n u a g s i e o n u s ~e o ui f ie r p o r i o ei gress of the tale, it is always with that we find ourselves carried away from an ex amination of the intri tion of the subtle but es of Leslie to a the unsuspicious harmless philosophy of the unsuspicious and benignant_. ter on among all those cold-blooded Riccabocca . We saun - little villanous casuistriesan.d proverbs making up the staple conversation, with a gentle nature of that the disciplesof most uncontaminate d Machiavelli. Whenev er we ourselves in his it " if we were shelter and and sunny " Pl company is as among the flower : beds to impart even the most of his find in the b e d s of some green im nature seems, by easannce." HF bizarrel di g nity to gro t es que a f S : that costume being,. masquerade. .11 brella becomes _ Chinese Emperor.a species of habitual r t :tfo n s of his costume— r theninnianner even his red TlM glord. —like' the symbol of a book—carried under his arm into the meadows—must have been just such a quaint old volume as Charles Lamb-loved to kiss with such enthusiasm. His meerschaum, again, must have been of a quality and an amplitude - sufficient to provoke the envy -of Ernest Maltravers. As to his philosophy, vthich we have already mentioned as so distinguished by benevo lence, that, we rest assured, could never have borne the slightest possible resemblance to the philosophy attributed by Devereux (Book iv., ch. to Boling broke, where he says it reminded him of " the en chanted tent in the Arabian Tale, which one moment :lay wrapped in a nut-shell, and the next covered. an army." Riccabocca's philosophy never could. have been compressed, by hydraulic agency or otherwise, within the compass even of a cocoa-nut grown in the land of Brobdignag. It not only enswathed himself perpetually, but must have been fluttering abroad for ever over the whole wide world of his kinsfOlk, and more cherished com panions.. Yet, with all this, was Dr. Riccabocca an oddity. • Insomuch so, that when he adjusted his spe c t ac l es and surveyed' the ass (Vol. i. p. 27), we don't wonder at all " that the ass pri:ked up its other ear and surveyed Dr. Riccabocca." Leonard had already, on fi rs t o b serv i ng th e doctor p erc h e d up on the stile, displaying in full relief that meagre figure, and those foatures havi ng a b out them something, "awful and Satanic," Leonard. Fairfield (w e haVe it on the authority of his. h istorian) had already, brave young rustic as he was, " looked exceedingly frightened." No marvel, therefore, that under the (raze of Riccabocca the a s s p r i c k e d up i ts other ear l ' with such wondering inquisitiveness ! During the peru sal of the whole of the twelve books of this prose epic of the domestic life of England,' we have failed to detect one syllable that does other than enhance the dignity and elevate the reputation of Alphonse Riccabocca. Balanced as the heroes of " My Novel" are, so to speak, against each other—not less so are its heroines, or even the rest of the female characters. It would be difficult to do justice in a few words to the exquisite delicacy of their delineation. Vio lante, the heroine of the story as Harley is the hero, Violante, the brilliant and beautiful Vio lante, presenting to us in a typical manner (Vol. iv., p. 299) the glory of " the Woman who Exalts"— may be estimated (for want of a better phrase) as the cameo effigy of the loftier qualities of her sex in contrast to the _intaglio as represented in the person of Helen, the- gentle companion -picture to that of the boy-poet, Leonard. Helen, the tender and timorous, but still, in every crisis, the brave hearted Helen revealing to us by a like signifi cance (Vol. iv., p. 296) the yet nobler glory of "the Wo man who Consoles." Moreover, there are lights and shades of comparison scarcely less easy of discern ment between the Squire's Harry and the Parson's Carry—good wives both of them, and admirable ex amples of lowlier, yet, in their way, equally loveable phases in the nature of your true English gentlewo man. Simple-hearten Jemima too has her undoubted charm, proving herself (could we give greater praise ?) not unworthy to be the spouse of Doctor Riccabocca. There are winning traits even in the poor widow Fairfield, and this we say, albeit she did wear " a kerchief that had cost tenpence," causing her, together - with other tokens of her poverty, to be apostrophised by her brother Dick as a nasty, dirty, dusty, dowdy," during the course of his memorable outburst Of indigna tion. Added to these, there are various other female characters in "My Novel," which it were superfluous here to enumerate. Two of these, however, cannot be altogether overlooked in a criticism on the fiction the events recorded in which they influence somewhat, remarkably, al though both of them appear before us only through the haze of very shadowy descriptions. Conspicu ous, indeed, among even the more noteable crea tions of our author, in this the latest and most elaborately matured product of his imagination, shines above them all the buried heroine of the romance, and yet not so much its departed heroine, as the vital memory through which the affections of the principal actors in the story become refined and, in a manner, consecrated. Frank's bride is the other invisible personage not yet men tioned, the often heaxd of but never seen—Miss S ticktorights. • Quotation from a work so complicated and com prehensive would obviously be nothing else than an abortive extravagance. It would simply be the old absurdity over again—Scholasticos and the brick, as. immortalised in the Witticisms of Heirocles. Little, therefore, remains to be added to our foregoing observations. It has yielded us peculiar satisfaction to offer even this in adequate tribute to the genius displayed in the production of this noble masterpiece. Admirable as have been so many other of the literary achieve ments of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, " My Novel" equals the happiest effort among them in its por traiture of character, while it surpasses them all by its reilly wonderful display of the abounding resources of his invention, by its masculine and idiomatic eloquence, and by that exquisite symmetry of design which might of itself jus tify us in according to it one of the highest paces among the treasures of imaginative lite rature. For its pure a,id elevating senti ments it is not unworthy of the hand whieli had before penned that golden couplet (" New Tinton," Part iv., § 2)-- " To reason less is to imagine more ; Those most aspire who meekly most adore !" For its frequent evidences of sensibility it may be regarded as not unworthy of one who had written the "Pilgrims of the Rhine." As a transcript from Nature, it is not unworthy of th e au th or o f " Eugene ram." While, as a work of Art, it is worthy of the Lettered Englishman who had already realised the hope of Milton and the dream of Dryden, by celebrating the glory of Arthur in a national epic (" King Arthur," Book i., st. 88) " Theme to all song and marvel to all youth— Beloved as Fable, yet believed as Truth." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE. The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in this company was held at Edinburgh on Thursday; Mr. John Balfour, of Balbirnie, chairman of the company, pre siding. From the report it appeared that the receipts for the past half-year had amounted to 66,8371. Bs. ld., and the expenditure, including the working of the line, the de benture interests, &c., to 52,9771. 65., leaving a balance of 13,8601. 2s. ld. This sum, with the balance of 11,4461. 14s. 2d. on the half-year ending July last, gives on the financial year an aggregate, surplus of 25,306/. 15s. 3d., after payment of working expenses and the debenture interests at the reduced rate of three-and a-half per cent. ; but, deducting willthe r, w ec o ae r ni k .vd i e ng s l e o x iil p d ens a only, the actual free revenue for the year ending 31st Jan. last amounts to 53,400/. 10s. 4d. From the surplus on the present account, interests to the amount of 7581. 2s. sd. have been paid on bonds over property, and no other obli.. gations. Since the accounts were closed the following fur ther payments have also been made : —974/. ss. sd. as a half-year's interest to the Granton Ferry proprietors at the reduced rate agreed upon with them, and 6,9291. 2s. 2d. as a half-year's interest on the debts due to the banks, at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, in terms of the arrangement formerly reported ; the remaining sum of 5,198/. 12s. ld. (less 4261. 18s. id. appropriated by b parties having claims on capital account) has been depo sitedy in bank, for the payment of a half-year's interest to the other creditors, which they re duced rate set forth in the scheme foresethientgieerneestras,l thepa.rties entitled ar rangement of the comilany's affairs • ssaumrpeluswrmembaein appropriated p t r h i e a tcleids cahianrognegofththe thereto, after the bill now before Parliament has been passed. . The report and accompanying st atement of ac coun t s were o nett unanimouslybusinadess waopteds. Therki ng to consider the p ro p ose d working agreem en t b etween the Edinburgh and Perth proposed t o h s e e d Levento Railwayu d C companyompany Company. latter branch line from the townn er f take the construction of a 'at Thornton -- a the other company miles —and to furnish a locoomoLti the oe tnp completion any r t to the e h e traffic. main lineti Upon 0 of n ornton—a distance of about six finding the n ecessaryt t h th e branchrolr the Edinburgh and Perth undertake work and maintain it for 25 years, In stock, with the exception of the locomotive. The terms g were that the Leven Com pany should undertake the ayment of the dividends, and Dundee Company 1s: interest on loans, &c., and top ay the Edinburgh, .Perth, surpl us companies revenue to be equally divided between the two After considerable discussion, man was carried by a agreement with the Leven anted the directors to execute it in te t . e a mile for each train, the large majority , The meeting then separa d ratifying the a motion by the chair usual form. authorising --_---------_ en zt .i i l n g g u o t f 33 th ro e o F k o s, x s. Club this F. Dundaq, 11I.P.; Sir R. Heron, Bart.; y ea r was held he Hon. R. S. Carew ; Captain Towns . - 0-iit Hon. Lord M. 11111, M.P ; —The Ii on. C. C. Cavendish, M.P • R.N., N M.P.; the o . ~ !lend, • • 3---irtF.hoelxzE. CAaLrilust:,f3.ll Z ;ti e ti t e la r n ., ,i q;Mrr.ivy.. A. s'cahnorlicnrdeieyC,olßoraiertl .I. ; he th H e o li n. o ß n. . B il oyl p e, u M ooa .P u .; ; Mr - 11. F. Stephenson; Lord Saye and Sele ; and Colonel Sir 11. J. F. Davie, Bart., M.P. MANSION AT BALMORAL.—\Ve understand that con tracts have been entered into for the building of a new mansion for her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Bal moral, and that the works will be proceeded with so soon as the weather permits. The wearoscurbliteseliacrtne.t trioadbebneerecdeaere, r of o i u e r d o t u o t wu frm s o muu les m ign and r.s W. v. u s n ra de it r h t , h Journal.psT ARALIA.—The llob ar t Town, Guardia n , o f th e 16th of Oct. last, which has just come to hand by th e ship Panama, stat es th a t the _number of ernigraito who, landed at Melbo urne t h e week ending the 12th of Octo ber last was 3,000, and that the amount of gold which the Forest Creek diggings had yielded up . to the 12th of that month amou n t e d t o 5,699,083/, eterhag. 100 all 1g1:1 100 100 100 100 all all 6 all 100 all; 100 20 112 100 811 10 20 10 20 1.4 4/ 104 21 , 7 36 1061 109 8 2i 3 36i 7 27i A 11i 100 100 181 9i all 1071